Student Counsellor

**PEROMNES GRADE: 07**

**Requirements**:
A Master’s Degree in Clinical, Counselling, Educational or Industrial/Organisational Psychology.

Registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa in any of the following categories:
Clinical, Counselling, Educational or Industrial/Organisational Psychology.

**PURPOSE OF THE JOB**:
To render counselling and psychotherapeutic services to students, staff, as well as the wider

community.***

**Duties**:
**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 students
- Collection, storage, retrieval and dissemination of career and other types of information

through electronic media

**Community Engagement**
- Developing and empowering communities through outreach programmes
- Delivering psychological services to the disadvantaged communities
- Assisting with student recruitment and selection
- Acting as consultant to Life Orientation and Remedial teachers in the surrounding schools

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

contribution to scientific knowledge in the field of human behaviour
- Conduct research to keep abreast of new developments in the field of psychology

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**CLOSING DATE 23 FEBRUARY 2024**

three (3) referees, certified copies of all qualifications including Matric/ Grade 12 Certificate.

Academic transcripts and a South African ID/ Passport should be forwarded to Chief Human
- Telephonic enquiries regarding conditions of service: Ms DM Diale, 015 268 2800 _
- It is the applicant’s responsibility to have foreign obtained qualifications evaluated by the South _
- African Qualifications Authority. Please note that failure to submit the requested documents/ _
- The University of Limpopo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All appointments will be made in _
- accordance with the University’s Employment Equity Policy._**_ Student Counsellor,_**_ Preference _
- will be given to Male (Africans, Coloureds and Indians) Female (Coloureds, Africans) _
- contacted within 30 days of the closing date must consider their applicants as unsuccessful. _

**_The University reserve the right not to make appointment_