Community Mental Health Educator
Job Description
Title: Community Mental Health Educator
Company Name: Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Vacancy: 2
Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ • No previous experience in position is required.
∎ • Desirable previous experience with NGO’s.
Job Context:
∎ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in more than 70 countries worldwide. We deliver emergency medical care to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural or manmade disasters. MSF first worked in Bangladesh in 1992.
∎ MSF stands against all forms of discrimination on whatever basis, be it of gender, age, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, political opinion, legal status, or any such arbitrary and false distinction.
∎ MSF has an opening for
∎ COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATOR
∎ Location: Goyalmara / Unchiprang
∎ Announcement date: August 21st 2019
∎ Deadline for applications: August 29th 2019
∎ Desired Starting date: ASAP
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Prepare, provide and present health education sessions to the population/patients according to MSF principles and values in order to promote health information through health measures and hygiene conditions as well as providing information about MSF activities in order to facilitate access to healthcare.
∎ • Prepare material and deliver health education sessions, messages and topics addressed to different populations regarding hygiene, diseases and prevention.
∎ • Identify people with mental health problems, contact with mental health supervisor to inform and bring to MSF facility if needed.
∎ • Participate in psychiatric days by providing psychoeducation to patients in the waiting area and assisting with data collection and appointment setting
∎ • Ensure that patients with family planning and SGBV concerns follow the proper circuit and have accurate information about the services offered
∎ • Ensure all the patients and caretakers are well informed, according to protocols, about health related issues and services provided.
∎ • Monitor health situation and living conditions of the population by conducting nutritional screening, collecting information related to food security, checking vaccination status of children, looking actively for any defaulters in programs that require this type of research, collecting information on number of people arriving or leaving the community, births and deaths in the community, etc.
∎ • Identify people with medical problems, contact with medical team and report for immediate transfer if needed. He/she has to inform to the line manager about any problem encountered (population, equipment, material…).
∎ • Report to line manager of all results of screening and visits on a regular basis.
∎ • We encourage local candidates to apply for this position
∎ • Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply
Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ • Oral and written Bangla essential.
∎ • Oral and written Rohingya essential.
∎ • English desirable.
∎ • Results.
∎ • Teamwork.
∎ • Flexibility.
∎ • Commitment.
∎ • Service.
∎ • Stress Management.
Salary:
∎ Salary according to internal MSF salary grid.
2 annual leave days per month worked.
Medical insurance for employee and direct dependents.
No relocation allowance shall be provided.
Application Deadline: August 29, 2019
Company Information:
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
∎ Address : 5th Floor, Khawaja Palace, Plot N. 76, Ro-11, Banani, Dhaka-1213, Bagladesh.
∎ Business : Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in many countries worldwide. MSF has been working in Bangladesh since 1992. MSF was awarded the prestigious `Nobel Peace Prize` in 1999 for its pioneering humanitarian activities since 1971 in several continents.
Category: NGO/Development
Read Before Apply: Please send your resume (CV), motivation letter, work certificates, at least two reference contact e-mails (mandatory) and other relevant documents by August 29th to [email protected] with subject stating the position you are applying for (COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATOR) and its code (CMHE0819) plus your name.• All incomplete applications or those not clearly labelled will be rejected.• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews/testing.• Application documents are non-returnable; please do not submit original documents.• No applications will be accepted after the deadline.• Only Bangladesh citizens will be considered for this position.• No monetary, goods or service offers, nor favoritism, will be tolerated in a recruitment process. MSF reserves the right to refuse any candidate having benefited from such acts. Any illicit solicitations can be reported to the justice system. MSF reserves the right to refuse any candidate having benefited from such acts and will stop collaboration with any workers involved in such acts.
