School Counsellor (80-100%)
Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz
Switzerland
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Beginning of August 2023
- Apply by:
- 30 March 2023
Job overview
The Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz is an international boarding school with a history stretching back over 120 years, located near St. Moritz in the heart of the scenic Engadin valley (Switzerland). 220 boarders from around the world and 110 local day students study at our school for the Swiss Matura, the iGCSE, the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IBDP) and the International Baccalaureate Career-Related Programme (IBCP). The school philosophy is founded on respect for tradition combined with innovative thinking and emphasizes values such as respect, openness, responsibility, engagement, inquiry, critical thinking, creativity and balance.
We are currently looking for an experienced
School Counsellor (80-100%)
Start date: Beginning of August 2023
Responsibilities:
- Provide orientation for new students
- Coordinate small group and individual counselling sessions with students
- coping with difficult personal and family problems
- increasing self-awareness and developing positive self-concept
- Develop, establish and supervise processes to support students’ academic performance and behaviour
- Support and guide teachers and boarding staff in the early identification of student problems
- Provide observation, strategy development and processes to meet social/emotional needs of individual students
- Implement and conduct professional development for teaching and pastoral care staff
- Provide guidance to the Learning Support and Student Well-being team
- Support with the planning and delivery of pastoral workshops in both the boarding and PSHE programme
- A member of the safeguarding team with possibility of safeguarding lead role
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Guidance and Counselling or a related field
- Minimum four years personal and social counselling experience in an educational setting
- Well-versed in psycho-educational interventions
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in English, both verbal and written, German an asset
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational, time management and multi-tasking skills
- Ability to understand and empathize with social and cultural diversity
We offer:
- Attractive conditions of employment, including competitive salary
- A dynamic international context in the spectacular alpine setting of the Engadin
Due to work permit restrictions, candidates of EU/EFTA nationalities will be given preference.
Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; the successful applicant will be subject to thorough background checks.
We look forward to receiving your application using the online form on our Website: www.lyceum-alpinum.ch/jobs
Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz
CH – 7524 Zuoz / Switzerland
+41 81 851 30 00
About Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz
The Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz, founded in 1904, is a Swiss international boarding school set in spectacular alpine landscape near St. Moritz. About three hundred students between 12 and 18 years of age from around the world and the Engadin valley follow programmes leading to the International Baccalaureate Diploma (English), the Swiss Matura (German, German/English or German/Italian) and the German Abitur.
We provide our students with an education which promotes intellectual, physical and emotional balance. We work to create a thriving, international school community where young people from the Engadin and around the world can build the foundations for fulfilling and successful lives.
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