Psychologist (COVID - 19 Response)
Job Description
Title: Psychologist (COVID - 19 Response)
Company Name: Relief International
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's degree in psychology (clinical psychology preferable)
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ As a psychologist, you will be responsible for providing standard mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) care and non-drug treatments to complicated mental disorder in RI`s COVID 19 Hospital. Ensure RI protection program is integrated with MHPSS according to IASC and another inter-agency standard.
∎ Reporting to: Medical-in-Charge
∎ Department: Health
∎ Expected Start Date: ASAP
∎ Contract length: Up to December 31, 2020.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Provide standard mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) care and non-drug treatments to complicated mental disorder to child case and GBV survivors.
∎ Conduct MH assessment to complicated mental disorder to child case and GBV survivors which required by RI case management officers.
∎ Provide MPHSS care and non-drug treatment to child case and GBV survivors who present complicated mental health and psychological distress which required by RI case management officers
∎ Closely collaborate with RI case management officers
∎ Maintain confidential of case filing system
∎ Ensure all cases information be kept in highest confidential
∎ Ensure safety of cases information sharing
∎ Maintain all cases filing in locked system
∎ Conducted training to RI protection staffs and volunteers in topics relevant to MHPSS
∎ Reporting to Protection Manager biweekly report and monthly report or as requirement
∎ Represent RI in interagency coordination eg; MHPSS working group
∎ IPC Management
∎ Ensure proper donning and doffing of PPE items.
∎ Conduct proper triage, early recognition and source control
∎ Supervise instrument processing
∎ Monitor waste management in the hospital
Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ 1 years' experience in mental health and psycho-social programming (in refugee context is preferable)
∎ Experience working in the Humanitarian context and emergencies
∎ Good knowledge of and experience in using established inter-agency and Donor standards and guidelines in MHPSS.
∎ Cultural awareness and sensitivity, prior experience in Rohingya camps is preferable
∎ Strong background and skills in facilitating trainings, coaching and mentoring others
∎ Familiarity with CP minimum standard and GBV guiding principle
∎ Competency in Microsoft Office suite, including Word and Excel
∎ Ability to communicate clearly and sensitively in written and spoken English. Chittagonian speaking capacity will be a strong plus.
∎ Enthusiasm to learn
∎ Optimistic and friendly
∎ Flexibility
Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays
∎ Salary Review: Yearly
∎ Two festival bonuses in a year equivalent to one basic salary.
∎ Severance (8.33% of the monthly basic salary) goes with the monthly release of the salary.
Application Deadline: April 11, 2020
Company Information:
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: House: 451 , Road: 8 West, DOHS Baridhara, Dhaka-1206; Head Quarter: 5455 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1280 Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
∎ Web : www.ri.org
∎ Business : Relief International, hedquatered in USA, is a leading international non government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact.
Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International has been working in Bangladesh since 2004. The Bangladesh portfolio of Relief International has strong focus on emergency response, economic opportunity and livelihoods rebuilding, traficking in persons, sustainable tourism, human rights and protection, refugee crisis response and public health. RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar. RI currently employs over 1000 local and international staffs in Bangladesh.
Relief International is currently implementing large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID/OFDA, EU ECHO.
For more information on Relief International: www.ri.org
Category: NGO/Development
