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Senior / Counsellor

The Challenges

As a Senior / Counsellor in the National Addictions Management Service, you will review all clinical, medical, psychosocial and other relevant data in your assessment of clients. You will be required to formulate a provisional diagnosis, and enlist your patient’s cooperation in developing a treatment plan. You will also mobilize the relevant resources and services your patients require.

You will work within a multi-disciplinary setting led by the physician, and will be required to communicate and consult with nurses and allied health workers as well. For both inpatients and outpatients, you will be required to conduct individual and group programmes, as well as work with their families.

Your duties include reviewing counselling practices and setting high standards of quality care through individual or peer supervision. An essential component of your work entails assisting the department in evaluating and improving patient services which necessarily include the capturing of clinical outcome measures and any other data required by the department.

Training in addictions for both internal and external professional staff is an important part of your work, as is the delivery of educational talks to the public.

The Requirements

• Minimum a Bachelor degree in Psychology, Counselling, Social Work, Nursing or related discipline with relevant work experience. A Master degree would be preferred
• Basic knowledge of PC applications (Microsoft Word & Excel)
• Experience in gambling addiction counselling will be an advantage
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills