Junior Student Counsellor

**JUNIOR STUDENT COUNSELLOR (PEROMNES GRADE: 09)**

**Requirements**:

- Honours Degree in Psychology/B.Psychology
- Registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa

(HPCSA)
- Valid Driver’s Licence

**Purpose of the job**:Give counselling to clients experiencing minor problems,

assessment administration, monitor and assist interns with psychometric

testing/administration as well as information acquisition, storage, retrieval and

dissemination.

**Duties**:
**Give Counselling to clients with minor problems**
- Screening
- Debriefing and Counselling
- Referring to professional student counsellors (psychologists) and other

professionals

**Career development, graduate placement, entrepreneurship training,**

**internship training and vacation employment**
- Search and collect information about various companies
- Send invitations to those companies for recruitment purposes
- Establish professional relationships with companies
- Provide students with information on different careers
- Conduct workshops on career development (job hunting skills, interviewing
- Prepare students for the world of work

**Psychometric assessments**
- Assist administrative assistant with the storage of psychometric records
- Administer psychometric assessments to clients at the Centre and during

community and school outreach
- Administer the psychometric assessments to the clients referred by the staff of

the Centre
- Monitor psychometric work of interns at the Centre
- Assist interns with the administration, scoring and interpretation of

psychometric assessments

**Managing the Resource Centre/ Information acquisition and dissemination to**

**students community**
- Acquire information from various sources such as journals, internet, books,

newspapers, magazines, other institutions, companies, periodicals, manuals,

electronic media, brochures and professional bodies.
- Distribute information to residences, lecture theatres and other public places.
- Purchase newspapers, books and equipment for the Resource Centre.
- Post important information from newspapers on the notice board.
- Update bulletin boards for the Centre.
- Making sure that students acquire enough information regarding job

opportunities, bursaries, scholarships, vacation employment, internships, etc.
- Purchase the software material and equipment (computers) to be utilized in the

Resource Centre.
- Benchmark with other Resource Centre managers from other institutions to

keep CSCD’s Resource Centre updated.
- Liase with relevant stakeholders for effective way of information dissemination.

**School and Community Engagement**
- Carry out need analysis
- Conduct career assessments, career guidance and general life skills

workshops to high school learners as well as the youth from the communities
- Arrange travelling and catering for the Peer Counsellors and staff members

attending those workshops
- Liase with people requesting Centre for Student Counselling and

Development’s services (career guidance, career assessments, general life

skills etc.)
- Arrange psychological assessments to be used with the assistance of CSCD’s

documentalist
- Conduct psychological assessments to community members
- Provide counselling to clients referred from the communities

**Research**
- Conduct research for the provision of a sound basis for professional activities

as well as contribution to the scientific knowledge in the field of human behavior
- Conduct research to keep abreast of new developments in the field of

psychology and related fields
- Conduct research for the Centre to have a better understanding of ou

**Counselling and Psychotherapy**
- Psychometric assessment
- Intensive counselling and psychotherapy for students with serious personal

problems***
- Establishment of an extensive referral network for students both inside and

outside the University***
- Development and implementation of preventive programmes relating to a

variety of psycho-social difficulties facing youth at tertiary educational

institutions

**Management of professional office**
- Filing and record keeping in terms of prescribed standards
- Upkeep and use of equipment and technology to enhance counselling and

psychotherapeutic work
- Ensuring that quarterly, annual and clients reports are submitted on time
- Marketing the Centre within and outside the University community

**Training and development of interns and students**
- Supervising students registered for internships
- Conducting academic skills development and general life skills workshops to

students
- Developing and implementing programmes for peer counsellors and students

with disabilities

**Career development, graduate placement, entrepreneurship training and**

**vacation employment**
- Ensuring that companies recruit students prior to their graduation
- Ensuring that students learn how to market themselves to the prospective

employers
- Implementing work readiness programme for all final year