Psychologist

Job Description

Title: Psychologist

Company Name: Action Contre la Faim (ACF)

Vacancy: 01

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's in Applied Psychology(Clinical/Counseling Psychology).
∎ Skills Required: Communication skill, Microsoft Word

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Contract Duration: 31st May, 2020 (With high possibility of extension).
∎ Start Date: As soon as possible.
∎ Psychologist is responsible for answer to the identified needs on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) issues. By providing, awareness raising session at community level, training to stakeholders, direct psychological and psychosocial support to the beneficiaries, produce regular reports on activities, assessments and follow-up.
∎ Monitoring Assistant Project Officer`s work and providing supervision to their mental health cases regularly.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Answer to internal and referred beneficiaries for further psychological assessment through interview, observation and/or assessment scales and external referrals.
∎ Identify Psychological, emotional and behavioral difficulties; diagnose; develop action plan and provide psychological and psychosocial support at individual, group and family level.
∎ Refer beneficiaries with specific needs of specialized psychological support to external services and follow-up on all referrals, in coordination with your line manager, following the appropriate strategy of the project.
∎ Visit and discuss with beneficiaries before referring and ensuring mediation if needed with other stakeholders.
∎ Organize and implement more specific psychosocial support activities through different methods including mediation activities, creative or recreational activities, group discussions, group daily activities, etc.
∎ Participate to the discussions and decision-making in the frame of case management meetings.
∎ Write specific reports for critical cases.
∎ Ensure the psychological and psychosocial follow-up of the beneficiaries.
∎ Guarantee the follow-up of defined objectives.
∎ Organize and conduct training on MHPSS.
∎ Contribute to the mapping of relevant actors (referral network) and set up of referral systems to other services available.
∎ Conduct support groups with particular such as disabled, isolated/discriminated people, etc.
∎ When needed/possible, work with the partners and volunteers to create and implement psychosocial activities in the centres and at community level.
∎ Ensure a qualitative follow up of the beneficiaries participating to group activities.
∎ Ensure a daily quantitative and qualitative reporting through the tools (assessment form, follow up form, group activity reporting tool, discharge form that includes the final assessment of the beneficiary's psychosocial status) and system in place.
∎ In formal and informal meetings with the team, participate to a qualitative analysis of the different kinds of issues, at individual, family and community level.
∎ Participate in a weekly meeting with other MHCP supervisors to address common issues, discuss, and agree on action plans for specific cases.
∎ Respect confidentiality regarding the content of clinical interviews, except when exchanging information with other team members to draw joint action plans in the best interest of the beneficiaries.
∎ Proactively support Action Against Hunger's commitments to gender equality, child protection and disability sensitivity

Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Sense of confidentiality.
∎ Good knowledge of child and/or adult development.
∎ Good command of at least one psychotherapeutic approach.
∎ Training and case management aptitudes.
∎ English and local languages

Salary: Tk. 55000 (Monthly)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus: 1-month Gross salary every year.
∎ Provident Fund: 7.5% of Basic Salary.
∎ Performance Bonus: from 30 % to 80% of monthly Gross salary per year depending on performance.
∎ End of Contract Benefits: As per organization policy.
∎ Medical coverage: 80% hospitalization coverage medical expenses (max limit BDT 120,000 per year).
∎ 18 days of paid annual leave per year.
∎ 10 days of paid casual leave per year.
∎ 14 days of paid sick leave per year.
∎ Paternity Leave, Compassionate Leave, Maternity Leave and Marriage Leave.
∎ Birth Allowance and Marriage Allowance.
∎ Mobile Allowance and Food Allowance.
∎ Free and unlimited access to the certifying e-learning platform Cross knowledge.
∎ Participation to external training costs upon eligibility of the request.

Application Deadline: December 19, 2019

Company Information:
∎ Action Contre la Faim (ACF)
∎ Address : Orin Tower, House # 23, Road # 113/A, Gulshan - 2, Dhaka 1212
∎ Web : www.actioncontrelafaim.org
∎ Business : Action Contre la Faim | Action Against Hunger is a humanitarian non-Governmental, non-political, neutral and non-profit international organization (INGO) that was established in France in 1979 to deliver aid in countries throughout the world. The aim of Action Against Hunger is to save lives by combating Hunger and Disasters that threaten the Lives of vulnerable Children, Women & Men. Since 2007, Action Against Hunger has been providing assistance to vulnerable populations in Bangladesh in the arena of Nutrition & Health, Mental Health & Care Practices (MHCP), Food Security & Livelihoods (FSL & DRR), and Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WaSH).

Category: NGO/Development