Psychometrist / Educational Psychologist

**Direct Reporting Line**:
Head: Student Experience
**Varsity College** is an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education (The IIE). The IIE enjoys the reputation of being at the forefront of private higher education in South Africa, and is registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) to provide higher education qualifications accredited by the Council on Higher Education (CHE).

**Overall Purpose of the job**:
Psychometrist / Educational Psychologist is responsible for providing accessible and reasonable accommodations and recommendations through psychometric assessment, skills-based Psycho-educational workshops, and interventions. Through the enhancement of student experience, the Psychometrist / Educational Psychologist aim to provide holistic support, transformation, and the removal of barriers to promote equity, acceptance, respect, participation, and success of all students.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Intake and Psychometric Assessments**
- Conducts assessments to support educational adjustments and educational services in support of learning and development. Assessments may comprise of cognitive abilities, intellectual abilities, personality and development status, career abilities and interest associated with learning and development.
- Evaluates and responds to student needs during intake and psychometric assessments, manages student behaviour during assessments and controls the testing environment to ensure validity of results.
- Ensuring psychological and neuropsychological scores are measured according to normative standards and clinical protocols using relevant statistical software packages.
- Actively participates in continuous professional development and remains up to date with empirical research to establish best practices for collaborating on the design and enhancement of high-quality and equitable student support services.
- Develop collaborative partnerships and engage with internal stakeholders to identify intake and assessment requirements in ensuring holistic support for students with learning, physical, psychological, and psychosocial barriers.
- Identifies and evaluates students’ psychosocial and socioeconomic needs as they pertain to learning, physical, psychological, and psychosocial barriers.
- Ensure security of psychometric assessments batteries, test results, data collection protocol are maintained and adhered to, according to the HPCSA confidentiality standards.
- Ensure good practice in the use of psychometric tests, including test selection, test administration, scoring of tests, interpretation of test scores and accurate reporting of test results and providing feedback.

**Individualized Educational Plans**
- Development, monitoring, and evaluation of individualised educational plans tailored to the holistic support and development of students.
- Engage with various internal stakeholders (academic support staff and lecturers) and, when necessary, parents to ensure an effective and personalised support plan is in place for students with learning, physical, psychological, and psychosocial barriers.
- Advocate students’ needs by ensuring they have access to appropriate resources and accommodations.
- Identify, understand, and promote resilience and well-being of all students in their interactions with others in a range of contexts that support learning and development over the lifespan.

**Tailored Interventions, Marketing and Awareness**
- Develop and conduct psychoeducational skill-based workshops for internal stakeholders and students.
- Administer workshops tailored to the needs of the students on topics, including time management, study skills and soft-skills training for employment readiness.
- Implement workshops and training for internal stakeholders on topics, including assessment accommodations process and procedures, neurodevelopmental disorders/emotional regulation, and inclusive education.
- Promotion of communication collateral (workshops, campaigns, posters, and training) to ensure that all internal stakeholders and students are informed and cognizant of difficulties or challenges individuals may encounter / experience.

**Holistic Student Support**
- Develop and implement a holistic, multi-disciplinary student support system that ensures diverse, blended, and tailored assistance to address the individual needs of students.
- Design and implement student support strategies that incorporate the entire student life cycle, from broadening access to quality and affordable education, through articulation opportunities, to guiding future career prospects.
- Encourage and provide opportunities for students to actively participate and contribute to a positive and inclusive learning environment, while ensuring their actions align with the principles of access, redress, equity, and inclusion.
- Develop and conduct workshops with internal campus stakeholders to provide holistic student support, ensuring stakeholders are u