Website Nova Pioneer
Nova Pioneer Education Group is a Pan-African independent school network offering preschool through secondary education for students from ages 3 through 19. We prepare the next generation of leaders and innovators through world-class teaching methods with an emphasis on 21st century skills.
ABOUT THE ROLE
- Working with the school’s educational psychologist to provide educational psychological services to students across campuses of Nova Pioneer. This will include individual therapeutic interventions, psychoeducational assessments, group intervention, meeting attendance and collaborative multidisciplinary work, case management, and consultations with parents and teachers.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- Work under the supervision of Nova Pioneer’s educational psychologists, who will act as the site supervisors
- As per the HPCSA requirements, the internship will be full-time, and the intern will be required to work through school holidays. Leave days are allocated according to the HPCSA guidelines and school contract
- Provide therapeutic interventions, including play therapy and trauma support to primary and secondary school students from Grade 00/000 to Grade 12
- Provide learning support and remedial interventions to students in primary school.
- Conduct psycho-educational assessments
- Write professional, useful, and psychometrically-sound assessment reports
- Provide workshops, group interventions and facilitate Social and Emotional Learning experiences with an emphasis on prevention and psychoeducation to students, staff and parents
- Attend Student Support Team meetings (SST) and work as part of a collaborative student support team
- Maintain accurate clinical records
- Maintain the highest level of professional and ethical conduct, upholding the professional rules of conduct pertaining to the profession of psychology as laid down by the HPCSA
ABOUT YOU
Essential:
- Have completed or be nearing completion of an accredited Master’s degree in education or counseling psychology (no time will be given for completion of course work)
- Have an individualised internship program that has been approved by the Professional Board for Psychology by December 2025
- Be registered with the HPCSA as an intern Psychologist by no later than January 2026
- Be willing and able to work on different campuses of the school
- Have supervised experience in therapeutic interventions and psychological assessment
- Be willing and able to work on different campuses of the school.
- Be willing to travel when necessary
- Have supervised experience in therapeutic interventions and psychological assessment.
