Assistant Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Officer

Job Description

Title: Assistant Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Officer

Company Name: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representation in Bangladesh

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Years of Experience / Degree Level: For P1/NOA - 1 year relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or no experience with Graduate degree; or no experience with Doctorate degree
∎ Field(s) of Education: Clinical Psychology, Public Health; Psychiatry, Mental Health; Clinical Social Work; or other relevant field

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Category/grade: National Professional Officer, NOA
∎ Post Number: 10028790
∎ Type of contract: Fixed-term Appointment
∎ The Effective Date of Assignment: As soon as possible

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Assist partners and UNHCR staff in the protection and health units to develop, coordinate, and monitor appropriate MHPSS interventions.
∎ Contribute to capacity building and supportive supervision of UNHCR staff and partner staff around:
∎ community-based psychosocial support,
∎ evidence-based scalable psychological interventions,
∎ clinical mental health care (support to primary health care workers around mental health care).
∎ Perform monitoring around psychosocial support of partners including, in consultation with the relevant units, Community-based Protection, Child protection, SGBV and Education.
∎ Perform monitoring around mental health services within in primary health centres, in consultation with the health and nutrition unit.
∎ Provide support to UNHCR health partners to ensure the correct use of the mental health elements of Health Information System (HIS), collect data for the annual UNHCR reporting, review and analyse monthly health data, and compile annual reports on the mental health situation in camps.
∎ Undertake regular site visits in order to assess MHPSS needs of persons of concern, with attention to people with specific needs.
∎ Support the development of functional referral and follow-up mechanisms between community, MHPSS services and protection partners.
∎ Support establishing referral pathways for people with clinically relevant mental health conditions from the community to the primary health care system and when required to secondary care.
∎ Keep regular contacts with local authorities and partners as requested by supervisor.
∎ Represent UNHCR team in MHPSS coordination meetings and or in coordination meetings round protection and health, as requested by supervisor.
∎ Ensure compliance of implementing partners with global protection policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of MHPSS services.
∎ Upon indication, assist in assessing the MHPSS needs of persons of concern (people with high priority needs and or persons with complex or severe problems), initiate treatment and define appropriate follow up interventions.
∎ Perform other related duties as required.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Relevant Job Experience: Knowledge of and experience in various psychological interventions. Experience with provision MHPSS services in refugee settings or other disadvantaged communities.
∎ Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English and local language
∎ Relevant Job Experience: Experience with capacity building (organising and giving trainings and workshop, performing and supportive supervision).
∎ Functional Skills
∎ WB-Organizational Psychology and/or Psychiatry;
∎ WB-Psychosocial risk assessment and recommendation of mitigating measures;
∎ CO-Cross-cultural communication;
∎ CL-Multi-stakeholder Communications with Partners, Government & Community;
∎ CL-Protection & Solutions Awareness;
∎ PR-Community-based Protection;
∎ PR-Refugee Protection Principles and Framework;
∎ MD-Health Information Systems (HIS);

Salary:
∎ A competitive compensation and benefits package is offered.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 27 Jun 2021

Company Information:
∎ 14 Jun 2021
∎ United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representation in Bangladesh
∎ Business : International UN Refugee Agency
Humanitarian assistance


Category: NGO/Development