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The company is seeking a Counsellor to join its Social Work Team, focusing on facilitating positive change and improving the lives of individuals, families, and communities facing social challenges. The role involves delivering targeted interventions such as social work services, home ownership support, education assistance, livelihood development, and community development initiatives. The ideal candidate will work collaboratively with community members and internal teams to empower communities and promote sustainable progress. The position offers a salary of 5000.

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Job description

[This job id 17533 first appeared in Job-Q.com on 01 Jul 2026]

The Counsellor plays a vital role in a dynamic Social Work Team that facilitates positive change and improves the lives of individuals, families, and communities facing social challenges. This is achieved through a community-centric approach and the delivery of targeted interventions, including but not limited to social work services, home ownership support, education support, livelihood development, and community development. The ultimate aim is to empower communities to break the cycle of poverty and achieve sustainable progress.

Working collaboratively with community members, internal SCC work teams, and ecosystem partners, the Counsellor supports socially disadvantaged, families and individuals in realising their aspirations. He/She will maintain a high standard of professionalism and be accountable to the service user, the community, and the organisation, to ensure that intervention plans are developed and implemented with sound professional judgment and high ethical standards.

If you have a passion for communities and social mobility work, we invite you to have a chat with us!

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To deliver Community Centric Social Work Practice which includes the following 5 domains:

1. FSC Code of Social Work Practice
Manage cases according to the FSC CSWP guidelines and timelines, which includes conducting sessions in agencies, home visits, case conferences and other methods of engagement with service users

• Handle Information and Referral duties, including conducting Enquiries and Intake Assessments
• Maintain accurate and confidential casework records to document interventions, assessments and case plans (e.g. Assessment and Case Plans, Case Session Recordings, Contact Logs), on the required platforms such as SSNet and CaseConnect
• To intervene in safety and risk concerns, developing safety plans and making risk assessments, to improve the family’s functioning towards stability

2. Empowering Casework
Identify assets in services users and community members, so as to mobilize them to contribute to community well-being

• Engage the community members and facilitate support and connections to improve the well-being of service users
• Work with SCC Social Workers and Community Workers in a team approach, in order to improve the well-being of service users

3. Community Building
Conduct community conversations, group work and other community engagement activities to build associations and connections within the community.

• Grow and sustain community associations that can contribute to the community
• Work with, guide and mentor community connectors to be able to build become facilitators and contributors to community well-being.

4. Activating Potential and Pathways
Holding asset-building and aspirational development conversations with service users to activate their potential for social mobility

• Referrals to other internal and external enablers and initiatives that can facilitate asset-building for social mobility
• Connect families with available resources such as ComLink+ Progress Packages, to encourage social mobility

5. Advancing Social Mobility
Supporting families’ social mobility journey by continued engagement of service users and coordinating with other internal and external stakeholders to maintain progress towards social mobility goals

• Develop asset-building or social action projects where necessary

Note: The Counsellor role may be allocated cases that may require deeper therapeutic work on interpersonal self, family sessions, mandatory counselling for domestic violence, etc.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Degree / Post Graduate Diploma / Masters in Counselling, Social Work or related disciplines from recognised universities
• Training in specialized Counselling / Therapeutic modalities such as trauma-interventions, systemic family therapy, etc., will be an added advantage
• Believe that people and communities have intrinsic strengths and resources that can be harnessed for the betterment of family and community life
• Passion for engaging with communities and social mobility work
• Knowledge and experience with social work interventions and social policies, and interest in community development work will be an added advantage
• Ability to work collaboratively as a team to enable greater synergy in the work
• Strong analytical, writing, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Fresh graduates are welcome to apply

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