Psychosocial Counselor
Job Description
Title: Psychosocial Counselor
Company Name: PHULKI
Vacancy: 01
Job Location: Dhaka, Gazipur, Dhaka (Savar)
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's degree preferably in social sciences, development and humanitarian studies, social work, or other relevant subject area.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Duration: Contract will be up to 30th June 2024.
∎ Position Title: Psychosocial Counselor under ‘Protection, Nutrition, and Education Support to Children of Garment Workers (PRoNE to Children)’ project
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Actively promotes the availability of counseling services.
∎ Conducts individual and group counseling for children, young people, and their family members
∎ Work with the team for assessing need of psychosocial service (PSS) and specialized mental health support among the target group
∎ Develop the capacity of front-line staff on Psychological First Aid (PFA)
∎ Provide PFA to children at first contact
∎ Ensure PFA is provided to all children and making sure proper documentation is in place through collaboration with case workers and other staff to ensure
∎ Effective coordination with Case Management Officer & Case Worker to develop and proper implementation of care plans and documentation of counseling information in respective case file of children
∎ Provide distance or face to face Counseling to individual children and parents
∎ Take appropriate measures to refer most critical mental health cases to experts
∎ Assist Case Management Officer & Project Manager to produce quality periodic reports
∎ Keeps systematic records of work and maintains confidentiality
∎ Develops work plans and reports of activities.
∎ Provides weekly, monthly, and periodic counseling reports to the Project Manager.
∎ Make necessary field visits to assess the quality of the action of the project and keep notes of the findings
∎ Perform any other duties as and when required
Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 2 years and at least 1 year of experience in the field of community mobilization work.
∎ Experienced in community mobilization work
∎ Experience working with vulnerable and at-risk groups
∎ Demonstrated experience in coordination with Child Protection actors, garments workers, garments owners, service providers, duty bearers etc.
∎ Skilled in using Microsoft Office including Microsoft Teams
∎ Demonstrated competency to work independently with minimum supervision.
∎ Resilient, flexible and gender-sensitive
∎ Ability and willingness to travel to the field.
∎ Able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
∎ Excellent communication and listening skills
∎ Proactive and have the desire to learn and build professional expertise
Salary:
∎ Attractive remuneration package will be offered to the successful candidate.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 23 Aug 2022
Company Information:
∎ 17 Aug 2022
∎ PHULKI
∎ Business : Phulki functions as a right based organization which aims to protect and establish the rights of women and their children by advocating with different government agencies, international and business communities for the proper enforcement of their responsibilities. Understanding the inseparable link between rights and empowerment of the women, in early 90’s Phulki targeted the RMG sector, which soon became the single largest employer of women. In this aspect Phulki is providing daycare services for last 29 years in different factories and as well as in the communities to keep the children safe while their parents are at work.
Category: NGO/Development
: Interested candidates meeting the above requirements should apply
