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POST 07/245 : PSYCHOLOGIST,
This vacancy has expired. The closing date was 23 Mar 2026.
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Requirements
Competencies
- Knowledge of the following: Group dynamics (roles and stages of group development)
- Health Professions Act, 1974
- HPCSA Code of Ethics for Professionals
- HPCSA training requirements
- Scope of practice for Psychologists
- Maintenance of professional registration through participation in continuous professional development
- Research methods and statistics (action research, quantitative and qualitative)
- Mentoring and coaching practices
- Project management
- Protection 171 of Personal Information Act, 2013 Key elements of policies, frameworks, norms and standards on organisational performance
- Labour Relations
- Exposure culture measurement tools, leadership and team interventions and assessment tools. Skills needed: Analytical
- Change management
- Conceptual, interpretive and formulation
- Conflict resolution
- Diagnostic
- Diversity management
- Facilitation and process consultation
- Influencing
- Innovative
- Problem-solving
- Intervention design
- Interviewing
- Leadership
- Listening
- Mentoring and coaching
- Motivation
- Negotiation
- Networking
- Planning and organising
- Presentation
- Professional judgment and reasoning ability
- Project management
- Research
- Strong people skills and relationship building
- Team building and strong interpersonal skills
- Verbal and written communication.
Duties
Develop, guide and advise on complex theories and models in order to enhance behavioural, group and organisational behaviour; Responsible to perform psychometric and other assessments in order to determine the potential and/or suitability for training, development and recruitment and to determine individual, group and organisational effectiveness; Assess organisational behaviour dynamics; Design and develop assessment tools; Advise on institutional improvement and development based on diagnostic surveys and assessments; Advise on development of policies; Report on IP research; Develop and Execute culture and leadership development interventions to improve organisational performance; Apply paradigms, theories and models to enhance organisational behaviour; Facilitate and implement Western Cape Government Transversal Culture Programmes; Project management and Reporting; It will be advantageous to have the following: Experience in Leadership and Culture Interventions.
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