Psychologist
Job Description
Title: Psychologist
Company Name: Friendship
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters in Clinical psychology, Counseling Psychology, Clinical social work
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Individual counselling sessions with beneficiaries where required to discuss complex cases.
∎ Be available on call if any urgent matters arise that a staff would like to share regarding their casework or his/her personal well being
∎ Development of peer/reflective practices with teams
∎ Support current MHPSS practices, reflecting on a cross-sectoral approach. Identify MHPSS service providers and agree referral pathways.
∎ Structured MHPSS activities for boys and girls, organized in age-appropriate groups with a clear methodology or curriculum to promote mental well-being. Such activities must align with donor commitments in already-funded projects.
∎ BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice).
∎ Conduct basic mental health assessments using the Mental Status Exam and other assessment tools to establish a baseline for care.
∎ Collaboratively develop an individualized care plan for persons of concern to support the development/maintenance of healthy coping mechanisms and achievement of psychosocial goals.
∎ Conduct regular follow up sessions to provide ongoing support according to the established care plan and adjust to meet the person's developing needs.
∎ Facilitate timely, appropriate and confidential referrals to specialized mental health care or other needed services when needed using the established referral pathways in their area of work.
∎ Adapt existing interventions and develop innovative approaches to supporting persons of concern together.
∎ Facilitate group sessions focusing on socio-emotional processing, skill-building, and social connectedness at the static point and home-based level.
∎ Facilitate theme based (anger and stress management and substance abuse) focus group discussions to address stigma, community needs and existing community responses to increase awareness and resilience.
∎ Conduct follow up individual sessions as needed for participants with more complex or prolonger MHPSS needs.
∎ Facilitate timely, appropriate and confidential referrals to specialized mental health care or other needed services when needed using the established referral pathways in their area of work.
∎ Explore the current health-seeking behaviors among the person who are currently accessing services and their communities to better develop outreach and engagement activities.
∎ Support in developing MHPSS Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials for stigma and stress reduction and the promotion of help-seeking; ensure the integration of MHPSS themes into the IEC materials of other sectors within the mobile unit.
∎ Support Rohingya community volunteers through capacity building and case follow up
∎ Conduct interdisciplinary case discussions as needed to identify wrap around responses to emerging needs.
∎ Provide MHPSS to protection cases as needed to support service gaps.
∎ Develop and maintain relationships with other actors at the field level.
∎ Regularly monitor and update active referral pathways across sectors for timely response to needs.
∎ Support project Manager in attending camp level coordination meetings to identify gaps, challenges, and solutions.
∎ Regularly report status and challenge updates to senior management staff to enable sector level advocacy and problem-solving if needed.
∎ Close collaboration with other MHPSS WG for technical guidance and capacity building.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age 25 to 30 years
Salary: Negotiable
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 27 Dec 2022
Company Information:
∎ 21 Dec 2022
∎ Friendship
∎ Address : K-14/2A, Baridhara North Road (Kalachadpur), Dhaka - 1212, Bangladesh
∎ Web : www.friendship.ngo
Category: NGO/Development
: “FRIENDSHIP is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults, and employees, Donors, visiting Doctors, visiting Journalists, visitors, beneficiaries including communities where we work and volunteers/interns. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with, has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation - regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure fully include background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding. FRIENDSHIP is an equal opportunity employer and will do everything possible to ensure that those who are suitable to work within our values and beliefs are recruited to work for us. Any personal persuasion will result in a disqualification of candidature”.Photograph must be enclosed with the resume.
