Psychologist - Teknaf Base
Job Description
Title: Psychologist - Teknaf Base
Company Name: Terre des hommes
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf)
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters in Clinical Psychology
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s):
Counselling
Job Context:
∎ Ensuring mental health and psychosocial (MHPS) consultations with target groups (both Rohingya and Host community) in the PHCs managed by Tdh.
∎ Diagnosing and treating mental illnesses and, if necessary, refer 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 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 ananlysis 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 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 the Mental Health activities, including the management of data-collection and patients forms.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at least 22 years
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Language: English and Bengali essential Rohingya desirable
∎ Desired knowledge of the affected population
∎ Interest in helping vulnerable people
Salary: Tk. 84600 - 94752 (Monthly)
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Gratuity
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
∎ Weekly 2 holidays
∎ Health Insurance
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 12 Sep 2023
Company Information:
∎ 5 Sep 2023
∎ Terre des hommes
∎ Address : House no: 52 (1st and 2nd Floor),
Road no: 15,
Block: D,
Banani, Dhaka – 1213
∎ 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
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