Teenage Counsellor

Application Deadline

Your responsibilities will include;

• Work with Tunza Sports ‘Health and Wellness’ Team
• Monitor youth behavior and ensure environment is conducive to learning and playing
• Serve as a co-parent
• Provide feedback and opportunities for growth
• Schedule and coordinate therapeutic program for teenage girls
• Guide group activities that enhances the youth’s confidence and self-esteem
• Facilitate and ensure each youth’s therapeutic and educational progress
• Deliver evidence-based practices per training
• Assist in the development of goals for each individual player
• Hold the players accountable to goals set, teach strategies to achieve goals
• Recognize and reward accomplishments
• Submit written evaluations and reports of player progress clearly and on time
• Supervise and interact with players, assist them in resolving emotional problems
• Ensure physical and emotional needs are met
• Interview families and friends of the youth under our care
• Work with parents for the purpose of monitoring and reporting behavioral change
• Create overall non-school day activities and confirm supplies are purchased
• Build connections with students and their families based on honesty and trust
• Assist students in building skills for social, emotional, and physical health
• Communication with coaches about players’ emotional and behavioral patterns
• Participate in developing and implementing highly effective home visitation strategies
• Use an interdisciplinary approach to supporting home visitors in improving family outcomes
• Coach parents to use problem-solving strategies toward self-sufficiency
• Work with coaches to provide best techniques in handling emotionally fragile players
• Align family engagement activities within community framework
• Support parents’ involvement as the primary teachers of their children.
• Ensure for systematic and integrated comprehensive program services in order that children are ready to take on the athlete role
• Ensure efficient program operations and compliance with child rights
• Focus on treatment goals that include:
  • Improved Social Skills;
  • De-escalation Techniques;
  • Family/Relationship Improvements;
  • Positive Coping Skills;
  • Independent Living Skills;
  • Conflict Resolution;
• Setup behavior coaching that focuses on Aggressive Behaviors and Identifies Triggers
• Mentor teens on Educational Goals, Career Advice, Health, Self-Care
• Implement respite to help with Independent Living Skills and Positive Peer Interaction

Requirements

• College degree in Human Services focusing on Social Work / Psychology/Recreation
• Documented experience working with youth for 6 months
• One-year experience in a related field (experience with adolescents preferred)
• Fluent in English
• Verbal skills to relate effectively with youth on an adult level, without patronizing
• Group counseling skills including conflict resolution will be developed
• Ability to distinguish between cause and effect/opinion and fact
• Proficiency in group work demonstrated during probationary period
• Ability to provide objective written documentation
• Specialization in mental health, childhood depression, domestic or substance abuse
• Experience in Outdoor Living Skills
• Handle with Care Behavior Management System
• Discreet judgment and confidentiality are expected at this level of responsibility.
• Certificate of Good Conduct (Police)
• Must have knowledge and experience of:
  • Aggressive Behaviors
  • Common Behavioral Diagnosis
  • Challenging Home Environments
  • Substance/Alcohol Abuse.

You might be a good fit if you,

• Enjoy working with the youth
• Be a role model who reflects enthusiasm, passion, and commitment
• Have the ability to think and act independently
• Are able to travel in remote locations and wild terrain
• Are patient and caring
• Can impact the lives of young women by encouraging and fostering change
• Can rise to a challenge
• Have concern for others
• Have a sense of adventure
• Understand and respect different cultures

Key details

• This position CAN be combined with another position
• For a candidate who identifies as a woman due to sensitive level of responsibility
• Location: Program locality
• Compensation: None
• Work schedule: Prorated over 2 days weekly.
• Duration: 6 Months
• Minimum age required: 25 years