Cape Mental Health, a non-profit organisation that offers comprehensive mental health services in the Western Cape.
Cape Mental Health seeks to employ a highly motivated and dynamic professional as a Training and Development Facilitator to provide training services to service providers and service users in the disability and mental health sectors.
Employment Type: Permanent Position (20 hours per week, 8:30am-12:30pm, Monday-Friday)
Responsibilities:
- Develop and facilitate training workshops/courses/lectures/webinars/presentations either face-to-face or virtually, to service providers working in the disability and mental disability sectors
- Assist in the collation and development of professional, evidence-based and quality training materials (including pre-recorded virtual training presentations)
- Assist in the co-ordination, planning, hosting and presenting of online training
- Market training workshops and courses within the relevant sectors
- Various administrative tasks
- Reporting to the ITD Manager
- Networking and liaison with relevant role-players
- Active participation in the development of innovations and initiatives in mental health
Requirements:
- Degree in allied health or social sciences including undergraduate training and experience in mental disability
- Experience in the development of training materials and curriculum for service providers within the mental disability sector (psychosocial- and intellectual disability)
- Experience in the facilitation of training workshops/courses/lectures/webinars/presentations for service providers within the mental disability sector (psychosocial- and intellectual disability)
- Excellent workshop facilitation skills
- Experience working in mental health community-based settings (psychosocial- and intellectual disability)
- Comprehensive knowledge on mental disability
- Ability to conduct research to source relevant and published literature to inform evidence-based practice
- Ability to work within a team environment, display excellent interpersonal skills and communicate effectively
- Excellent organisational, administrative and planning skills
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Ability to think innovatively
- Excellent verbal and written skills in English (Afrikaans / isiXhosa proficiency a benefit)
- Valid Code B (former code 8) manual drivers licence
- Be willing and able to travel nationally, if required, in order to provide training workshops
- Proven competency in the use of MS Excel, MS Word and MS PowerPoint and meeting platforms such as Zoom/MS Teams
Please submit for the attention of the Innovation and Training Department Manager the following documents:
- 1-page letter of motivation for why you are applying for this position;
- Copy of your driver’s licence;
- Expected gross salary per month;
- 3-page updated CV with recent contactable references, structured in a way as to clearly indicate the above mentioned job requirements to E-mail:innovation&[email protected]
Incomplete applications will not be considered. Only applicants who have complied with the above instructions will be considered.
- EQUITY DISCLAIMER: In line with the commitment of the Innovation and Training Department to ensure a diverse workforce and maintaining its equity targets, preference will be given to suitably qualified applicants from the under-represented designated groups in accordance with its Employment Equity Policy.
- If your expected salary falls significantly outside the available salary for this position, you will not be shortlisted.
- Please note that the personal information you disclose to Cape Mental Health will be processed in accordance with the requirements set out in the Protection of Personal Information Act.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted therefore, should you not receive a direct response please consider your application unsuccessful.
- Cape Mental Health reserves the right not to appoint, make an appointment at a different level or seek additional candidates
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