Occupational Therapist

Job Description

Title: Occupational Therapist

Company Name: Handicap International (humanity Inclusion) in Bangladesh

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf)

Employment Status: Full-time, Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ University degree in Occupational Therapy
∎ Skills Required: Computer skill

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): NGO/ Other Services
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

Job Context:
∎ The Occupational Therapist will identify, assess and provide intervention to children with disabilities in community setting, home and school based by mobilization of local resources and follow HI approaches on disability issues, build up capacity of community workers and relevant staff. The Occupational Therapist will maintain collaboration and linkage among other technical staff. S/he will plan, implement and report activities to the Senior Project Officer and other relevant department in HI. S/he will take part in capacity building training and/or provide necessary training as guided by Technical Unit.
∎ Reports to: Senior Project Officer
∎ Interacts with:
∎ Internally:
∎ 1. Technical Advisors
∎ 2. Project Manager
∎ 3. Deputy Project Manager
∎ Externally Linkage
∎ 1. Service providers for external referrals
∎ 3. Other NGOs in the related field
∎ 4. Consortium Partners
∎ 5. Experts, professional networks
∎ 6. Government department in the area

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Responsibility 1: support to beneficiaries
∎ Develop individual profile for the target people, identification and conduct assessment of children with disabilities and set up personalized plan.
∎ Provide specific home and school adaptations for children with disabilities.
∎ Conduct regular and frequent support visits to the beneficiaries' house and school to provide continuous follow-up services throughout the project duration.
∎ Identify and implement the reasonable accommodations as well as all the actions to make the environment accessible.
∎ Responsibility 2: support and capacity development of staff, volunteers, consortium partners and other relevant actors
∎ Supervise community volunteers who are engaged in relevant intervention.
∎ Provide training to HI staff, community volunteers and consortium partners and establish internal and external referral or connected services for people with disabilities.
∎ Provide technical support to other partners in different sectors to mainstream disability.
∎ Responsibility 3: Following on referral mechanism that is implemented
∎ Explore the existing stakeholders who are providing rehabilitation support; formal and informal stakeholders, support the creation of a service mapping.
∎ Strengthen referral links with rehabilitation actors.
∎ Develop functional linkage among external actors and relevant stakeholders.
∎ Ensure comprehensive and inclusive services
∎ Responsibility 4: Awareness raising and dissemination of information
∎ Contribute in developing Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials and its dissemination; ensure inclusion related information.
∎ Respect Donor/project communication and visibility guideline in materials created.
∎ Support in finding creating ways of dissemination of information.
∎ Working with community leaders, community volunteers for dissemination of information
∎ Responsibility 5: Networking and Coordination
∎ Attending coordination and networking meetings as directed by line manager
∎ Assist other team members to develop linkages and maintaining regular contact and working relation with all relevant stakeholders including relevant Government departments and humanitarian actors as needed.
∎ Assist Project Team in establishing network with various organizations working in the field of disability, protection, psycho-social and mental health issue. Exchange experiences and lesson learning with the network organization to better guide our service mechanism.
∎ Responsibility 6: Reporting
∎ Provide weekly and monthly reports
∎ Ensure that all activities for speech and language beneficiaries are captured in the survey CTO.
∎ Responsibility 7: Conduct
∎ Be caring, compassionate and maintain good communication with beneficiaries at all times
∎ Demonstrate an ethic and professional practice
∎ Respect beneficiaries' confidentiality.
∎ Respect and promote HI's Policies and report to your line manager any breach of HI's policies amongst the teams or partners.
∎ Report any incident or act that causes any harm to beneficiary or to others.
∎ Always interact with children with the presence of their parents or caregivers
∎ Always ask the permission to touch or to apply any treatment or mobilizations to someone.
∎ Always respect a refusal of treatment.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Knowledge & experience required
∎ ESSENTIAL
∎ Communication skills in verbal and written Bangla and English
∎ Previous NGO work experience
∎ Computer knowledge (MS office package- including Excel -- both in English and Bangla);
∎ SKILLS REQUIRED
∎ ESSENTIAL
∎ Able to work in challenging conditions
∎ Experience working within a team
∎ Rigorous and organized
∎ Good communication and interpersonal skills.
∎ Knowledge of humanitarian or development context(s)
∎ DESIRABLE
∎ Experience in humanitarian settings;
∎ Experience working in a multidisciplinary context;
∎ Previous work with persons with disabilities
∎ Experiences in school, home and work adaptations
∎ Experiences in the assessment and data collection
∎ Experiences in awareness raising and training material development/training implementation

Salary:
∎ Negotiable
∎ As per organizational policy.

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Tour allowance, Medical allowance, Provident fund, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance, Gratuity
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
∎ As per organizational policy.

Application Deadline: August 17, 2019

Company Information:
∎ Handicap International (humanity & Inclusion) in Bangladesh
∎ Address : House # 3/A, Road # 36, Gulshan , Dhaka-1212
∎ Business : Business: Handicap International (HI) is an international aid organization specialized in the field of disability. Non-governmental, non-religious, non-political and non-profit making, it works alongside persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, whatever the context, offering them assistance and supporting them in their efforts to become self-reliant. Since its creation, the organisation has set up programmes in approximately 60 countries and intervened in many emergency situations. It operates as a federation made up of a network of eight associations (Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA) which provide human and financial resources, manage projects and raise awareness of Handicap International`s actions and campaigns.

HI has been working in Bangladesh since 1997, with a focus on creating sustainable changes in terms of ensuring rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities in society. HI promotes an inclusive approach by focusing on access to services for all whenever possible rather than developing specific actions for persons with disabilities. HI works not only with persons with disabilities but also with their families, their communities, and the society. The main office is based in Dhaka, and presently there are 3 site offices in Sitakundo, Kurigram and in Cox’sbazar.

Presently HI Bangladesh is implementing projects on integrating disability in community based disaster risk reduction and response; economic empowerment of extreme poor persons with disabilities; mainstreaming disability in livelihood interventions; support to refugees and surrounding communities;, capacity building of professional associations; and support to Disabled People`s Organizations; among others.”

Category: NGO/Development