Deputy Director and Head: Unit for

5 days ago


Stellenbosch, South Africa Stellenbosch University Full time

Duties/Pligte
- Managing and coordinating the services at the Unit. This includes rendering psychological therapy services to students, mainly individually but also in groups, managing crises situations with students, especially trauma-based, developing and presenting work sessions that promote a healthy lifestyle amongst students, and rendering social work services to students;
- Managing and coordinating the staff at the Unit (including performance management and staff development);Financial and administrative management of the Unit;
- Managing the 24-hour crisis intervention programme in collaboration with ER24, as well as case management in an ethically sound manner;
- Closely collaborating with Faculties and other support service divisions regarding student success and wellness;
- Shared responsibility for the management of the Centre's Psychology CPD Well Programme for sustainable accreditation of psychologists;
- Providing support to the Director: Centre for Student Counselling and Development;
- Representing the University at relevant external forums;
- Managing appropriate research projects to sustain cutting edge service delivery.
- Bestuur en koördinering van die dienste by die Eenheid met inbegrip van die lewering van sielkundige dienste aan studente, hoofsaaklik individueel maar ook in groepsverband, die hantering van krisissituasies met studente, veral trauma-gebaseerd, die ontwikkeling en aanbieding van werksessies wat sielkundige wel-wees onder studente bevorder, en die lewering van maatskaplike dienste aan studente;
- Bestuur en koördinering van die personeel by die Eenheid (met inbegrip van prestasiebestuur en personeelontwikkeling);
- Finansiële en administratiewe bestuur van die Eenheid;
- Bestuur van die 24-uur krisisintervensieprogram in samewerking met ER24, asook gevallebestuur op 'n etiese verantwoordbare wyse;
- Noue samewerking met Fakulteite en ander steundiensafdelings insake studentesukses en -welwees;
- Betrokkenheid by die bestuur van die Sentrum se Psychology CPD Well-program vir volhoubare akkreditasie vir sielkundiges;
- Bied ondersteuning aan die Direkteur: Sentrum vir Studentevoorligting en -ontwikkeling;
- Verteenwoordiging van die Universiteit by tersaaklike eksterne forums;Inisiëring en deurvoering van toepaslike navorsing om voorpunt-dienslewering te handhaaf.

Job Requirements/Pos Vereistes
- Master's degree;
- Registration (of at least five years) with the relevant Council in South Africa as Clinical, Educational or Counselling Psychologist (Health Professions Council of South Africa);Proven experience in providing psychotherapeutic services to young adults, specifically trauma-based therapeutic service delivery;
- Proven experience in dealing with students with pathology (including substance related cases, psychosis, rape and aggressive cases);
- Proven experience in crisis management;
- Proven experience in Community Psychology;
- At least three years¿ experience of management in a similar unit or environment;
- Proven experience in administration (including financial administration);
- Excellent communication and language skills in English and one other official South African language;
- Computer skills in the MS Office package.
- Meestersgraad;
- Registrasie (van minstens vyf jaar) by die toepaslike Raad in Suid-Afrika as Kliniese-, Opvoedkundige
- of Voorligtingsielkundige (Raad vir Gesondheidsberoepe van Suid
- Afrika);
- Bewese ervaring van terapeutiese dienslewering aan jong volwassenes, spesifiek trauma-gebaseerde terapeutiese dienslewering;
- Bewese ervaring rondom die hantering van studente met patologie (insluitend dwelmverwante, psigotiese, verkragtings
- en aggressiewe gevalle);
- Bewese ervaring in krisisbestuur;Bewese ervaring in Gemeenskapsielkunde;
- Minstens drie jaar se ervaring van bestuur in 'n soortgelyke Eenheid of omgewing;
- Bewese ervaring van administrasie (insluitend finansiële administrasie);
- Uitstekende kommunikasie
- en taalvaardighede in Engels en een ander amptelike Suid-Afrikaanse taal;
- Rekenaarvaardigheid in die MS Office pakket.

Recommendation/Aanbeveling
- Specific experience in the duties as indicated above;
- Experience in multidisciplinary cooperation with medical practitioners and other health professionals within the health sciences;
- Experience of management within a higher education environment, specifically the management of staff and change management;
- Competence in an additional African language.
- Ervaring van die pligte soos hierbo uiteengesit;
- Ervaring van multidissiplinêre samewerking met mediese praktisyns en ander gesondheidswerkers binne die gesondheidswetenskappe;
- Ervaring van bestuur in 'n hoëronderwys-omgewing, in spesifiek personeelbestuur en veranderingsbestuur;
- Vaardigheid in 'n addisionele Afrikataal.


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