Registered Counsellor / Social Worker: Employee Assistance Programme Telephone Clinician

Reference Number MMH250207-9

Job Title Registered Counsellor / Social Worker: Employee Assistance Programme Telephone Clinician

Position Type Permanent

Role Family Medical

Cluster Momentum Health

Remote Opportunity None of the time

Location – Country South Africa

Location – Province Gauteng

Location – Town / City Meersig, Centurion

Introduction

Momentum Health, an entity of the Momentum Group, delivers sustainable, integrated health and wellness solutions that meet the needs of clients in the different segments and maximize lifetime client value. We build and maintain a culture of innovation and create value through unique insights of how to achieve specific outcomes by using a defined set of health capabilities.

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Role Purpose

To provide support by handling inbound calls, managing electronic assistance requests, conducting clinical assessments, developing treatment plans and delivering telephonic counselling sessions.

Requirements

• A National Senior Certificate is essential
• Qualified Registered Counsellor (highly advantageous) or Social Worker
• Minimum of 1 years’ experience as a Counsellor in a formal therapeutic role is essential
• Language proficiency in English and either Venda, Xhosa, Zulu or Afrikaans
• Experience in Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP), corporate wellness services and/or a counselling call centre environment is preferred
• Office 365 proficiency

Duties & Responsibilities

• Receive and screen all incoming calls from eligible clients.
• Assess client needs, detect high-risk and sensitive cases and provide immediate containment and intervention.
• Conducting a thorough and comprehensive assessment of the clients’ presenting problems.
• Develops a comprehensive service plan for each case based on needs assessment.
• Establishing and maintaining a supportive counselling relationship.
• Recommend or refer individual clients to an appropriate external resource for further intervention where clinically appropriate.
• Provide follow-up and after-care services for all clients.
• Managing all information related to client cases and answer any questions clients may have.
• The input of clinical data into the case management system.
• Manage cases referred to external service providers, including following up with providers for case feedback.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive referral system for the purpose of referring clients to additional services.

Competencies

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in alignment with global counselling standards
• Strong therapeutic, conceptual framework and clinical skills to efficiently and quickly understand clients’ needs and provide effective interventions
• Effective and professional responses to all client inquiries, concerns and complaints
• Appropriate levels of empathy, care and warmth balanced with firm therapeutic and ethical boundaries
• Ability to work within a team and take instruction and supervision from management
• Good self-care and accountability for one’s own level of resilience