School Psychologist

This school is based in Tokyo, Japan and is looking for a School Psychologist.

Requirements profile: 

The successful applicant will have:

• a degree in psychology
• Experience in the field of school psychology as well as experience in of diagnostics
• a high level of empathy and a high Consulting skills
• strong teamwork and communication skills and humor
• Willingness to create and the willingness to be creative and innovative further development of the concept psycho-social support for students, in collaboration with the teachers and the school social workers and special school teachers
• a high degree of flexibility, commitment and Resilience
• safe handling of digital media 
• good knowledge of English

Job profile:

• test psychological diagnostics (mainly intelligence diagnostics, reporting and procurement)
• Psychological support for students (discussions, referral to external offers, discussions with parents, discussions with teachers, documentation); e.g. at Eating disorder, self-harming behavior, Fear of performance failure, school-avoiding behavior Etc.
• open consultation hours for students (clarification as required and accompaniment
• Initiation and participation in class interventions Cooperation with school social work (e.g. on the topic of bullying, respectful treatment, change to the advanced level School…)
• Participation in working groups (especially useful working group prevention and working group Inclusion)
• Close collaboration with special education teachers and school social workers (weekly meetings, case discussions; Accompanying students Combination of special education and psychological Need for support in support hours etc.)
• Networking (mainly on German offerings). area of ​​psychotherapy and coaching) and Public relations (introduction of the area School psychology at parent-teacher conference, presentation on the homepage etc.)
• Project work (e.g. mosaic group in cooperation with Special education teachers or girls’ café in cooperation with school social workers)
• Organization and implementation of further training for the Collegium (e.g. on partial performance problems, dealing with challenging situations, mental health, safeguarding etc.)
• Advice to teaching staff; Possibly supervision offer for College
• Parent work (e.g. in the form of theme evenings, Information options such as flyers on specific ones disturbances)
• Mainly responsible for safeguarding protection concept, cooperation in the core safeguarding team, implementation of internal school measures safeguarding training

Employer benefits:

Our school offers:

• Support and preparation in advance of the resettlement and over and beyond
• a varied working environment
• a high sense of community
• payment appropriate to the task and location 
• a friendly, professional team
• lots of creative freedom
• free Japanese lessons