Educational Psychologist at Curro Holdings Ltd

Key performance areas

Psychoeducational assessment and psychometry       

• Perform assessments within the scope of practice of educational psychologists.  These assessments cover areas such as cognitive, mental, social, personality, behavioral, emotional, development and neuropsychological functioning as well as in contexts such as careers, school readiness, etc.

Intervention and prevention (individuals, groups, and families)          

• Prevention and intervention activities with individuals, families, and groups aim to enhance, promote, and facilitate optimal learning and development and address difficulties using a variety of approaches.
• Activities include psychopathology in relation to learning and development. This would entail attending to topics such as ADHD, Specific Learning Barriers, Autism, and trauma.
• Engaging in individual or group therapy, bereavement counselling, trauma counselling, family therapy, parent training, career development and implementing learning support plans for learners with learning and other difficulties.

Prevention and development (groups, systems, and communities with evidence of design, implementation, and evaluation)

• Preventative and developmental activities with groups, systems, and communities to enhance, promote and facilitate optimal learning and development of staff, parents, and learners.
• This may be in the form of workshops that focus on life skills such as study methods and skills, stress management, conflict management, effective communication, time management skills, parenting skills etc.

Trans-disciplinary teamwork: collaboration, consultation, and case discussions

• Collaboration and teamwork form an essential part of the everyday practice of educational psychology training and practice.
• The psychologist should form part of your school’s school-based support team and is expected to engage and collaborate with a wide variety of professionals including government, private and welfare organizations.

Case management, report writing and administration

The case management and administrative functions will include the following:

• Initial history-taking
• Consultation with parents and/or families or clients
• Consultations with trans-disciplinary team and outside professionals
• Administration, scoring and interpretation of cognitive, emotional, and
• educational instrument.
• Writing assessment reports
• Making recommendations for therapeutic and other intervention
• Therapy planning
• Process notes and files.
• Programme development.
• Ethical and legal issues will be considered.

Professional development activities and research       

• Maintain personal CPD points expected from the HPCSA.

Ethics and legislation           

• The psychologist is expected to ensure that he/she stays up to date with the ethical and legal parts of practice as an educational psychologist.

Supervision   

• As a practicing educational psychologist personal supervision to debrief and remain at capacity is the responsibility of the educational psychologist in line with the recommendations from the HPCSA.

Qualifications, experience and skills

• Master’s degree in educational psychology
• HPCSA registered Educational Psychologist
• 2 years teaching experience

Advantageous

• Counselling experience

Closing date: 27 January 2026.