Manager Student Wellness at Rhodes University

Main Objectives

• Overall responsibility for driving student wellness through the management of the Student Counselling Centre, Careers Centre, Wellness and Health Care Centre (HCC) to ensure the provision of a holistic wellness support service to the students of the University and to provide a high standard of health care facilities to students and staff

The Requirements

The job incumbent must be a Counselling Psychologist, registered with the Health Professional Council of South Africa (HPCSA), with approximately 7 years’ relevant work experience over and above their internship where such experience includes: - 

•  Previous experience working with adolescents or individuals in early adulthood. The greater diversity of the experience with adolescents the better. Those individuals with specific experience of working with University students will also be at an advantage.
• Previous experience supervising interns with a good track record of having done so
• Previous experience working at a strategic level (at least middle management)
• At least 5 years’ management experience
• Previous experience in developing new policies, practices and processes that will improve the overall quality of the well-being of students
• Previous experience in being part of initiatives to introduce new ways of thinking where the individual has worked with individuals to change their current way of thinking and functioning