Counselling Psychologist 60% (AD07) at University of the Witwatersrand

The CCDU is a multi- disciplinary team who provide professional supportive services in a welcoming and safe space to Wits students. The team endeavor to facilitate, contribute to and enhance the well-being and self -empowerment of students. The team works across disciplines in an integrated way to offer a holistic service to students. The Unit provides a high standard of services based on an ethos of student-centeredness, inclusivity, and human rights.

The CCDU team offer students:

• Individual and group counselling
• Career counselling and development
• Life coaching
• Psycho-educative workshops, training, and advocacy programmes
• HIV education, advocacy, and support
• Volunteer peer advocacy on social justice, mental health, and HIV
• Peer mentorship training
• Graduate recruitment
• The ‘Journey to Employability’
• Professional internships

The Main Key Performance Areas include:    

• Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Psychoeducation and Training
• Supervision of intern counselling psychologists
• Career Services for current and prospective students

REQUIREMENTS

• Registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as a Counselling Psychologist
• At least 3-5 years’ experience working as a counselling psychologist.
• Excellent therapeutic and advanced counselling skills, in particular shorter term/solution focused skills
• Experience in counselling students in tertiary educational institutions would be an advantage.
• Experience as a supervisor of intern counselling psychologists would be an advantage.
• Crisis management skills and when necessary, after-hours crisis management
• Experience in the facilitation and presentation of psycho-educational workshops with students in tertiary institutions would be an advantage.
• Experience in the field of advocacy for mental health, training and student development practices in tertiary education would be an advantage.
• Experience in psychometric assessment and interpretation of career development tests
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Willingness to do occasional after-hours interventions/workshops/presentations.
• Computer literacy essential,