Job Description

Title: Psychologist (Teknaf Base)

Company Name: Terre des hommes

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf)

Employment Status: Full-time, Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters in Clinical Psychology

Experience Requirements:
∎ 2 to 3 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): Clinical Psychologist, Psychological Counselling

Job Context:
∎ About Terre des hommes:
∎ Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is the leading Swiss INGO focusing on child rights. It is active in more than 30 countries with development and emergency projects. Tdh interventions are focused on the three programs: Health, Migration and Access to Justice particularly for vulnerable children. Tdh Foundation has a transversal approach towards Child Protection programming and it cuts across all the thematic areas while also has been considered as one of the key value propositions in its business model. The Child Protection expertise within Tdh Foundation aims to develop high quality, evidence-based knowledge and know-how adapted to fragile contexts, conflict zones, and development to improve the protection of children`s rights and their right to protection from all forms of violence (art 19, 34 CRC) in collaboration with and in support of the three core programs. The Tdh Foundation global strategy 2021-2024 specifies that the will have demonstrated that rights-based participation, empowerment, and active involvement of children and communities in defining and implementing responses are essential to improve child protection.
∎ Context:
∎ Tdh is working in Bangladesh since 1974, with operations in Kurigram district, Dhaka district and Cox Bazaar district. Currently, Tdh is implementing programs on Health, Access to Justice (social cohesion and conflict resolution) and Migration, integrated by the transversal expertise WASH and Child protection. Tdh interventions in Bangladesh are both in development and emergency context.
∎ Following the massive displacement of more than 800,000 people into Bangladesh since the end of August 2017, Tdh has put in place an important emergency response plan to provide relief to the Rohingya refugees, notably on Health, WASH, Child Protection and Social cohesion. Alongside, Tdh is implementing the CLARISSA project in Dhaka slums aiming to build a strong evidence base and generate innovative solutions to the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) and will explore how to take these solutions to scale.
∎ Tdh in Bangladesh has started the process of integration of emergency and development approaches and aims to capitalize its institutional learning for further programme expansion and to create critical pathways for evidence-based advocacy.
∎ PURPOSE OF POST:
∎ Ensuring mental health and psychosocial (MHPS) consultations with target groups (both Rohingya and Host community) in the two PHCs managed by Tdh.
∎ Diagnosing and treating mental illnesses and, if necessary, referring them.
∎ The type of mental illness situations mainly encountered include depression, psychosis, epilepsy, child and adolescent mental & behavioral disorder, dementia, disorder due to substance use, and self-harm/suicide.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Collaboration with the medical team, MH awareness to improve detection of mental health symptoms and signs, discussion of difficult cases, referrals etc
∎ Provide individual or group psychological counselling for population at risk (adults and children), support coping process of the population and mobilize their inner resources for processing traumatic experiences and finding new life perspective
∎ Visit beneficiaries at home/tent/shelter in order to assess needs and follow up evolution when required.
∎ Refer patients to other health professionals whenever necessary with the help of medical doctor
∎ Provide ongoing monitoring of beneficiaries’ status and maintain clinical files accurately
∎ Provide psycho-education or other psychosocial activities to the community, when required
∎ Assist and train Community Workers, counsellors and other staff members and resourceful people from the community
∎ Support analysis of PHC mental health data to better plan future MHPS activities
∎ Make regular reports of work to the supervisor.
∎ Participate in weekly staff meetings and regular supervision sessions
∎ Maintain at all times a respectful attitude towards the population, patients, colleagues and other professionals and staff
∎ Assist with the coordination with national and international Health and Mental Health actors; participate in the MHPSS cluster meetings when requested
∎ Support the PHC Manager in the monitoring of the implementation of Mental Health activities, including the management of data-collection and patient forms.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at least 25 years
∎ 2 to 3 years experience in psychological counselling
∎ Desired knowledge of the affected population
∎ Interest in helping vulnerable people
∎ Local dialects/languages (desirable)
∎ Person with disability are encouraged to apply

Salary: Tk. 86000 (Monthly)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Health Insurance

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 5 Nov 2022

Company Information:
∎ 27 Oct 2022
∎ Terre des hommes
∎ Business : Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is an International Non-Profit Private Organization operating in Bangladesh since 1974 in the fields of Child Protection, Healthcare, Nutrition, Emergency Relief, Water/Sanitation and Hygiene.

Category: NGO/Development

: Tdh is committed to Gender balance & inclusion and these will be important selection criteria. We strongly encourage applicants from the Teknaf sub-district and Cox's Bazar district.Tdh and Tdh employees are required to abide by the values and principles outlined in Tdh Global Code of Conduct and Risk Management Policies.Fully complies with Tdh's Global Code of Conduct and systematically reports any breach to the Code through the whistle-blowing procedure: raises awareness within the Foundation on abuse and violence and the rights deriving therefrom, respecting the rights and dignity of children, members of the communities and our own Staff.Commits to respecting Risk Management Policies including:Safeguarding Policies (Child Safeguarding Policy, Policy on the Protection against Sexual Exploitation and the Directive on Staff Misconduct at the Workplace), Safety and Security Policy and Anti-Fraud/Corruption and Prevention of the Financing of Criminal Activities Policies.Commits to reducing the risk of abuse and harm by developing a culture of open and informed leadership within the organization and in our work with children and the communities in which we intervene.Gender Equality & Equal OpportunityWe are committed to narrowing the gender gap in all positions. We welcome and strongly encourage qualified female professionals to apply.We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.We offer exciting and varied work, useful and meaningful, in a team that wants to make a difference for vulnerable children. Are you interested to join our committed team to face this challenge?

Source: bdjobs.com

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