Counsellor Queenstown

Phg Elmo; Komani; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A nationwide healthcare provider in Eastern Cape is seeking an empathetic Counsellor specialized in brief intervention for a fulfilling opportunity. This permanent full-time role involves delivering interventions, support, and training to employees while fostering a great team culture. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in general counselling and a level 7 qualification. Generous professional development budget and well-being initiatives are part of the package.

Benefits

Annual budget for professional development

Clear career progression

Great team culture with regular social events

Access to EAP services

Qualifications

• Current APC with NZAC, DAPAANZ, SWRB or NZCCA.
• Minimum of five years of post-study experience in general counselling.
• Knowledge of evidence-based therapy models (e.g., SFT, CBT, FACT).

Responsibilities

• Deliver focused interventions for clients to cope with work and life.
• Visit worksites to provide support after disruptions.
• Provide counselling services via in-person, video, and telehealth.

Skills

Experience Working With Students

Organizational skills

Behavioral Health

Mediation Experience

Special Education

Conflict Management

Teaching

Experience with Children

Public Speaking

Education

Tertiary level 7 Counselling or related qualification

Job description

Description

Habit Health is a nationwide healthcare provider specialising in the rehabilitation space. We enable people to live their best lives and empower our teams to realise their full potential.

The Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is part of the wider Habit Health Group. Our values are our people enabling us to provide confidential services to employees across work / life issues. Our Queenstown branch is seeking an empathetic experienced Counsellor for a fulfilling opportunity in generalist counselling. We are looking for an experienced Counsellor who specialises in brief intervention and has work on matters related to youth couples grief addiction and trauma to name a few.

Main responsibilities :

• Deliver focused interventions so that clients ace coping mechanisms at work and life
• Visit worksites to provide support after an event disruption
• Deliver counselling services via in-person video and telehealth
• Deliver training to customer employees

The benefits of working with us :

• Role focuses on employee care and intervention say goodbye to admin and paperwork!
• Annual budget set aside for professional development / study
• Permanent full-time role with clear career progression
• Great team culture with regular social events weekly treats award schemes
• Well-being initiatives : annual eye exam flu vaccination access to EAP services

Provision of enhanced AI tools aimed at boosting your performance :

Habit is proud to have introduced Heidi notes for all its clinicians to ensure they have access to the best possible tools to help them excel. Heidi is an AI medical scribe that automates clinical documentation and decreases administrative work. This enables you to focus on clinical care and turn you will be better equipped to make best use of our uncapped incentive programme that enables clinicians to earn an extra performance bonus every single month!

The ideal candidate :

• A strong sense of others were looking for sensitivity and empathy as traits
• Current APC with NZAC DAPAANZ SWRB or NZCCA
• Tertiary level 7 Counselling or related qualification and a minimum of five years of post-study experience in general counselling is required.
• Knowledge of evidence-based therapy models e.g. SFT CBT FACT is desirable
• Can work independently and attend on-sites for psychological first aid.
• Experience in trauma intervention psychological first-aid

If you think you have the experience and can-do attitude to make it even bigger with an organisation that rewards your worth we want to hear from you!

For a copy of the position description please click Apply which will take you through to our Careers website and will activate this link.

Please refer to job no 2014 in your cover letter when applying for this role.

If you have any questions email

Confidentiality is assured

Habit Health is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to diversity hiring and providing a safe space to people of all cultures languages experiences and backgrounds.

Key Skills

• Experience Working With Students
• Organizational skills
• Classroom Management
• Behavioral Health
• Classroom Experience
• Mediation Experience
• Special Education
• Conflict Management
• Teaching
• Experience with Children
• Public Speaking
• Word Processing

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1