Registered Student Counsellor: Health and Wellness

3 weeks ago

Kimberley BC, Canada Sol Plaatje University Full time

Purpose
The purpose of this position is to provide good quality psychological care for students at the primary health care level. The incumbent is expected to offer counselling and emotional support to students facing social, emotional, or behavioural challenges. Coordinate joint programmes with the staff counsellor team to facilitate ongoing professional development for educators to enhance their ability to support students with diverse learning needs.

Minimum Requirements
  • A) Professional bachelor’s degree in psychology, at NQF8 level.
  • B) Bachelor Honours degree or the equivalent to the BPsych degree that incorporates an approved 6-month or 720-hour face-to-face practicum.
  • Active registration and compliance with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as a Registered Counsellor
  • Driver’s license
  • Willingness to work outside normal working hours.
  • A minimum of at least 2 years of relevant work experience preferably in an educational field.
Skills:
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
• Maintenance of high professional and ethical standards.
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to remain calm and level-headed in challenging situations.
• Emotional Intelligence.
• High level of interpersonal skills.
• A strong work ethic.

Knowledge:
• Knowledge of the higher education sector and clear knowledge
and understanding of student centricity, student background and
context.

Duties and responsibilities

Crisis intervention
  • Provide counselling that focuses on acute or critical situations (e.g. victims or witnesses of crime or violence, accident victims, emergency emotional containment)
Ecosystem
  • Provide a dynamic interaction for individual students and group sessions and the broader student community.
Fundamental understanding of psychopathology
  • Understanding psychopathology for the purposes of screening.
  • Understanding that Registered Counsellors act as a consultant at the primary curative/ preventative level across the full scope of psychology. This intervention requires the application of concrete and predetermined decision-making rules.
  • Being the first line of student-based psychological support.
Primary Intervention
  • Providing preventative and developmental counselling services and interventions on all systems levels.
  • Identifying and addressing causes of problems or containing expressed emotion.
  • Assist in keeping records in the state as prescribed by the Professional Board for Psychology and the Health Professions Council of South Africa.
  • Develop activities designed to ameliorate stressors.
  • Provide psycho-education and mental health promotion: A planned, proactive transfer of information designed to promote and enhance psychosocial well-being for individuals, families, groups and communities.
Research and Education Awareness.
  • Provide psycho-education and mental health promotion that addresses relevant issues in student community contexts.
  • A planned, proactive transfer of information designed to promote and enhance psychosocial well-being for individual students, groups, and the entire student community.
  • Use quantitative and qualitative data to inform decision-making and scholar support strategies.
  • Assist in coordinating school and community outreach activities
Psychological counselling intervention
  • Provide screening, assessments, psychological education and training and referral for students.
  • Develop and monitor the psychometric work of the Interns/Peer Educators/Wellness Warriors at the Centre.
  • Do an investigation of possible disruption to a client’s psychological well-being and early identification of mental health challenges.
  • Identify symptoms or reasons for referrals to professionals within the healthcare system.
  • Provide counselling that assists to alleviating traumatic responses and/or assists clients to adjust to altered circumstances.
  • Maintain accurate and organised case files, including process notes and progress reports for each student, ensuring compliance with confidentiality and data protection regulations
Professional Development and Collaboration
  • Implement behavior management policies and procedures that cultivate a strong and positive student culture.
  • Implement a work readiness programme for all final-year students in collaboration with Career Services Unit.
  • Collaborate with Staff Counselling officers to offer mentoring and guidance to lecturers and staff to enhance their professional growth, providing opportunities for skill development and creating a culture of continuous learning.
  • Building professional networks with other mental health professionals such as Psychologists, Psychometrists, and even doctors is important in referring clients appropriately.

Enquiries can be made via email at spurecruit@spu.ac.za

Assumption of duties: As mutually agreed to upon acceptance of the appointment. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment.This position may be subjected to assessments.

Women and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Note: Sol Plaatje University (SPU) is dedicated to meeting its Employment Equity targets.

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