Clinical Psychologist

Vacancy: Position available for a full-time Clinical Psychologist

The position is available for a Clinical Psychologist as part of the psychology group practice at Optima@RustenVrede, a private child/adolescent and adult psychiatric hospital, outside Stellenbosch.

If you are interested, please send your CV and inquiries to Dr. Bester at therapy@optimarustenvrede.com

Closing Date for application: 20 December 2024

Candidate requirements:

• Registered as a Clinical Psychologist at the HPCSA
• Professional Indemnity Insurance
• All supporting documents
• Bilingual (Afrikaans/English)

Recommendations:

• Clinical experience working in an inpatient unit, seeing individual patients as well as running groups
• Clinical experience seeing couples and families.
• Clinical experience seeing adults, young children, adolescents, and their parents
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team

Key Roles:

• Work in child, adolescent, and adult in-patient units at Optima@RustenVrede
• See individual in-patients and manage treatment plans
• Psychological assessments and report writing
• Plan, design and run in-patient groups
• Plan and run couples and family therapy
• See adults, children and adolescents for behavioral interventions and/or therapy
• Work in a multi-disciplinary team
• See out-patients
• Give written feedback to referring healthcare professional
• Manage and book own appointments
• Accurate record keeping and billing
• Fulfil administrative tasks associated with clinical practice or any other task agreed upon by the practice.

Full-time Position: 40 hours a week (30 therapy hours a week)

Starting Date: 1 February 2025

Job Type: Full-time

Application Deadline: 2024/12/20
Expected Start Date: 2025/02/01