Mental Health Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Specialist (Female)
Job Description
Title: Mental Health Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Specialist (Female)
Company Name: Caritas Bangladesh
Vacancy: 01
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ The qualified candidate will have a master’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. Clinical or counseling psychology, clinical social work, Psychiatry, mental health care etc.).
Experience Requirements:
∎ Na
Job Responsibilities:
∎ 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, including MCAC, MWGC and BFC.
∎ 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 sector programs 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 on key concepts of MHPSS, including Psychological First Aid (PFA), mental health case management, referral, follow-up, and mental health promotion.
∎ Conduct regular sessions with trained staff and volunteers to coach on knowledge and skills
∎ Conduct self-care sessions with 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 to 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 forums, working group and identify opportunities for collaboration and coordination with relevant sectors, sub-sectors, NGOs, and stakeholders.
∎ Regularly conduct field visits, advise, and supervise the sessions/counselling.
∎ Prepare and share periodic report, (monthly reports, quarterly reports, sector report, working group report, donor reports, final report, need-based report).
∎ Develop a detailed monthly action plan and implementation in coordination with respective sector/program leads.
∎ 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. Develop community MHPSS awareness package.
∎ 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.
∎ Ensure proper documentation of all data, 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.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 40 years
∎ Only females are allowed to apply
∎ Psychiatrist (preferably) or psychologist with minimum two 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
∎ Training experience on 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 Bengali and English. Speaking and understanding chittagonian district language will be an advantage.
∎ Management, training and supervision experience required
∎ Strong organizational and supervisory skills and interpersonal skills with the ability to work within different cultural environment
∎ Ability to work within a team structure or independently, 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 persons, refugees, returnees and migrants.
∎ Excellent command of the use of Microsoft Office especially Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Salary:
∎ Tk. 90000 (Monthly)
∎ But may be negotiable for the highly experienced candidate) monthly
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ As per policy
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 12 Mar 2022
Company Information:
∎ 5 Mar 2022
∎ Caritas Bangladesh
∎ Business : 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.
Category: NGO/Development
: The candidates who are presently work under Caritas Bangladesh should apply through proper channel with approval of the Project/Regional/Central Management.Only short-listed candidates will be called for written test and Interview. Incomplete applications will not be considered, and the organization reserves the right to reject any application or to cancel or postpone the recruitment process for any reason whatsoever. Applicants are requested to visit www.caritasbd.org/ or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Caritasbangladesh2016 to know about Caritas.
