Mental Health Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Specialist
Job Description
Title: Mental Health Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Specialist
Company Name: Caritas Bangladesh
Vacancy: --
Age: at most 40 years
Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)
Minimum Salary: Tk. 90000 (Monthly)
Experience:
∎ At least 5 years
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):NGO
Published: 13 Mar 2025
Education:
∎ Masters
∎ Master’s degree in Science with the preferable disciplines of Clinical or counseling psychology, Psychiatry from any recognized universities in Bangladesh or from abroad.
Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 40 years
∎ Age : Maximum 40 years (40+ aged candidates having high experience with relevant disciplines will be considered)
∎ Psychologist with a minimum of 5 (five) years of experience working on MHPSS programs, preferably in humanitarian settings.
∎ Sound knowledge and experience on implementing IASC MHPSS guidelines in emergency settings, and supervision experience including IG, HIG and operational manual
∎ Has experience in providing supervision to psychologists.
∎ Training experience in Psychological First Aid and basic psychosocial skills. Experience with expressive/creative therapies a plus.
∎ Capacity building/curriculum development experience in community based MHPSS approach
∎ Fluency in English. Speaking and understanding chittagonian district language will be an advantage.
∎ Management, training and supervision required
∎ Strong organizational and supervisory skills and interpersonal skills with the ability to work within different cultural environments
∎ Ability to work within a team structure or in isolation, flexible, and can cope with stressful workloads and working with limited resources
∎ Proactive and communicate strategically under pressure
∎ Experience in mental health and protection work with displaced people, refugees, returnees and migrants.
∎ Excellent command of the use of Microsoft Office especially Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
∎ Age : Maximum 40 years (40+ aged candidates having high experience with relevant disciplines will be considered)
∎ Psychologist with a minimum of 5 (five) years of experience working on MHPSS programs, preferably in humanitarian settings.
∎ Sound knowledge and experience on implementing IASC MHPSS guidelines in emergency settings, and supervision experience including IG, HIG and operational manual
∎ Has experience in providing supervision to psychologists.
∎ Training experience in Psychological First Aid and basic psychosocial skills. Experience with expressive/creative therapies a plus.
∎ Capacity building/curriculum development experience in community based MHPSS approach
∎ Fluency in English. Speaking and understanding chittagonian district language will be an advantage.
∎ Management, training and supervision required
∎ Strong organizational and supervisory skills and interpersonal skills with the ability to work within different cultural environments
∎ Ability to work within a team structure or in isolation, flexible, and can cope with stressful workloads and working with limited resources
∎ Proactive and communicate strategically under pressure
∎ Experience in mental health and protection work with displaced people, refugees, returnees and migrants.
∎ Excellent command of the use of Microsoft Office especially Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Develop strategy and mechanisms to integrate MHPSS (in line with international standards and IASC guidelines) into all aspects of Caritas’ protection programing in emergency context.
∎ Provide clinical supervision to frontline protection staff, including GBV, PSS and CP caseworkers, facilitators and community mobilisers/volunteers.
∎ Provide mental health and psychosocial support as needed to affected populations (precise programming contingent upon identified needs, existing services and capacities as well as activities of other agencies);
∎ Provide technical support on MHPPS integration into different sectors in line with minimum standards for multi-sectoral response in emergency context.
∎ Identify psychological, emotional or behavioral issues and train mental health officers, caseworkers, facilitators and staff/ volunteers in community outreach, mental health case management, follow-up and mental health promotion.
∎ rain staff and volunteers involved in PSS activities on key concepts of MHPSS, including Psychological First Aid (PFA);
∎ Conduct regular supervision sessions with staff and volunteers to coach on knowledge and skills.
∎ Conduct self-care sessions with trained staff and volunteers after cascading series of activities in the community to help prevent/manage secondary stress.
∎ Identify and update referral pathways for MHPSS interventions; carry out regular service mapping in camps and refer cases to psychological/psychiatric service providers, where appropriate.
∎ Review and develop relevant training and outreach materials on MHPSS and adjust according to community feedback and recommendations.
∎ Contribute in the design of assessments and psychometrics tools and supervise their administration;
∎ Assist field team in rolling out MHPSS Monitoring & Evaluation tools;
∎ Represent Caritas Bangladesh at sub-sector meetings, relevant forum working group identify opportunities for collaboration and coordination with relevant sub-sectors, NGOs and stakeholders.
∎ Conduct regularly field visits, advise and supervise the sessions/counselling and organize regular staff meetings in field locations.
∎ Prepare and share periodic report, according to the project document (monthly reports, quarterly reports, sector report, working group report, donor reports, final report);
∎ Develop a detailed monthly action plan for the main activities to be conducted.
∎ Support the development of referral pathways to strengthen links to available services for MHPSS.
∎ Lead the development of appropriate IEC materials on MHPSS, to build awareness of services and promote key messages.
∎ Support in adapting programming to changing context, and evolving MHPSS needs of community members.
∎ Take responsibility for collection and reporting of mental health data including MIS reporting and beneficiaries’ outcomes (e.g. functioning scale, client satisfaction surveys). Support project staff to maintain program records and documentation as per project management minimum standards, including maintaining the confidentiality and security of MHPSS client data.
∎ Promote the culture of learning and documentation so that lessons learned, and good practices are documented and shared for institutional memory and learning as well as to advocate on behalf of the communities with which we work.
∎ Support the development of mental health and psychosocial monitoring and evaluation tools and related activities for improving performance.
∎ Ensure proper documentation of all trainings, completion and analysis of pre and post knowledge tests and on the job supervision checklists as well as mental health integration checklists. Sharing copies with MHPSS team data management, M&E, and reporting.
∎ Details of Positiona
∎ Reports to: Manager-Protection
∎ Job Location : Ukhiya. Cox's Bazar
∎ Job Nature : Contractual (Initially 12 months with potential extension subject to fund availability and projects continuation)
∎ Job Responsibilities
Employment Status: Contractual
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)
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Company Information:
∎ Caritas Bangladesh
∎ Caritas Bangladesh, 2 Outer Circular Road, Shantibagh, Dhaka-1217
∎ Established by the Catholic Bishops` Conference of Bangladesh (CBCB), Caritas Bangladesh (CB) is a national organization, operating since 1967 to carry out activities promoting integrated social welfare and development. Having its central office in Dhaka, CB has a wide presence across country through its eight Regional Offices in Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka, Dinajpur, Khulna, Mymensingh, Rajshahi and Sylhet. The focus area of its work includes Charity and compassion, Integrated Development, Disaster Management and Human Resource Development.
Mostly the interventions led by CB are concentrated in the remote rural areas of Bangladesh. Presently it covers 208 upazila (sub-districts). However, during emergencies- natural and manmade disasters - Caritas is operational in any part of the country. CB maintains the spirit of universality and openness to all people of Bangladesh irrespective of caste, creed and religion, but with preferential option for the poor and the marginalized including tribal.
CB is a member of the Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of 165 Caritas Member Organizations over 200 countries and territories.
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∎ Caritas Bangladesh, 2 Outer Circular Road, Shantibagh, Dhaka-1217
∎ Established by the Catholic Bishops` Conference of Bangladesh (CBCB), Caritas Bangladesh (CB) is a national organization, operating since 1967 to carry out activities promoting integrated social welfare and development. Having its central office in Dhaka, CB has a wide presence across country through its eight Regional Offices in Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka, Dinajpur, Khulna, Mymensingh, Rajshahi and Sylhet. The focus area of its work includes Charity and compassion, Integrated Development, Disaster Management and Human Resource Development.Mostly the interventions led by CB are concentrated in the remote rural areas of Bangladesh. Presently it covers 208 upazila (sub-districts). However, during emergencies- natural and manmade disasters - Caritas is operational in any part of the country. CB maintains the spirit of universality and openness to all people of Bangladesh irrespective of caste, creed and religion, but with preferential option for the poor and the marginalized including tribal. CB is a member of the Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of 165 Caritas Member Organizations over 200 countries and territories.
Application Deadline: 22 Mar 2025
Category: NGO/Development
