Training & Development Facilitator at Cape Mental Health

About the job

• Training & Development Facilitator Post: Innovation and Training Department (ITD)
• Permanent Position (20 hours per week, 8:30am-12:30pm, Monday-Friday)
• Cape Mental Health, a non-profit organisation that offers comprehensive mental health services in the Western Cape, seeks to employ a highly motivated and dynamic professional as a Training and Development Facilitator to provide training services to service providers and service users in the disability and mental health sectors.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and facilitate training workshops/courses/lectures/webinars/presentations either face-to-face or virtually, to service providers working in the disability and mental disability sectors
• Assist in the collation and development of professional, evidence-based and quality training materials (including pre-recorded virtual training presentations)
• Assist in the co-ordination, planning, hosting and presenting of online training
• Market training workshops and courses within the relevant sectors
• Various administrative tasks
• Reporting to the ITD Manager
• Networking and liaison with relevant role-players
• Active participation in the development of innovations and initiatives in mental health

REQUIREMENTS:

• Qualified and registered professional with a degree in: OT, psychology or the social sciences
• Experience in the development of training materials and curriculum for service providers, preferably within the disability and mental health sectors
• Experience in the facilitation of training workshops/courses/lectures/webinars/presentations for service providers, preferably within the disability and mental health sectors
• Excellent workshop facilitation skills
• Experience working in mental health community-based settings (psychosocial- and intellectual disability)
• Comprehensive knowledge on mental health and disability
• Ability to conduct research to source relevant and published literature to inform evidence-based practice
• Ability to work within a team environment, display excellent interpersonal skills and communicate effectively
• Excellent organisational, administrative and planning skills
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Ability to think innovatively
• Excellent verbal and written skills in English - Afrikaans / isiXhosa proficiency a benefit
• Valid code 08 manual drivers licence
• Be willing and able to travel nationally, if required, in order to provide training workshops
• Proficiency in the use of MS Office programmes and meeting platforms such as Zoom

Please submit a letter of motivation and 2-page updated CV with recent contactable references marked confidential to:

Attention:        Innovation and Training Department Manager

E-mail:             innovation&[email protected] or hand-deliver to 22 Ivy Street, Observatory, 7925