Psychologist

Job Description

Title: Psychologist

Company Name: Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Cox's Bazar

Vacancy: Undefined

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ M.Sc (Clinical & Counseling Psychology) & with advanced skills on Microsoft office software.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ VISION:
∎ The fate of the poor decides fate of the country; and
∎ The development of the country depends on the development of women.
∎ MISSION:
∎ Grame Cholo Gram Goro (In English: Let us go to the village and build village)
∎ Job Location: At camp Level in Ukhiya/ Teknaf Upazila under Cox`s Bazar
∎ Duration of the contract: Initially for 12 months (depends on project extension.)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ The psychologist will be responsible for the following main activities:
∎ Improving the beneficiaries' mental health wellbeing and psychosocial condition
∎ Supporting the social workers and CHW by providing guidance and capacity building for activities related to MHPSS
∎ Implementation of on the job training of social workers and CHW within the frame of GK and Partners standards
∎ Performing data collection and reports
∎ Implement mental health & psychosocial activities in GK and Partners health post.
∎ Assess the beneficiaries psychological condition by using psychological tools to detect the vulnerable cases
∎ Perform individual session for detected mental health cases and refer the severe cases according to GK and Partners referral pathway
∎ Organize group sessions and support groups for the project beneficiaries
∎ Use participatory methods to identify activity needs according to target groups, in order to facilitate the enrolment of adults and children in MHPSS activities
∎ When needed, provide psychological consultations and conduct group discussions activities through home visits for the most vulnerable cases
∎ Support CHW to identify beneficiaries with vulnerabilities and to properly refer them to GK and Partners health post
∎ Support CHW in the facilitation of the outreach activities for beneficiaries at community level when needed
∎ Identify MHPSS training needs for GK and Partners health post staff and contribute to training sessions in collaboration to MHPSS supervisor
∎ Train CHW of GK and Partners health post on psychological first aid
∎ Sensitize medical & paramedics staff of GK and Partners health post to psychological and psychosocial issues
∎ Produce timely activity reports, including both quantitative and qualitative information on MHPSS activities

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age 25 to 40 years
∎ At least 1 year working experience in Rohingya context and understanding and speaking of Chittagonian language is Highly preferred.

Salary:
∎ Negotiable according to experience

Application Deadline: April 27, 2019

Company Information:
∎ Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Cox's Bazar
∎ Address : 40/ A, Mukti Jodda Shoroni, Saimon Road, Baharchara, Cox?s Bazar.

Category: NGO/Development

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