SOCIAL WORKER

Job Description

Title: SOCIAL WORKER

Company Name: Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Desirable degree in social work.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Identify social needs of patients through a social assessment. Respond to the patient’s social needs, according to the scope of the project, by giving direct social support (as transport, food, legal advice,…) and/or refer to other social actors, in order to actively contribute to the improvement of their quality of living.
∎ Contact patients to follow up the evolution of their condition when needed (home visits, defaulter tracing)
∎ Participate in the creation of any material needed for the activities of social workers. Take care of social services facilities, materials and equipments in order to ensure continuity.
∎ Mapping and regular update of social partners, local authorities, other NGOs, and governmental social services in order to improve social services scope and responsiveness.
∎ Keep records, statistic and files updated, reporting any social activity, in order to prioritize and develop appropriate programs or projects.
∎ MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities:
∎ Identify clients with mental health needs and link them with counseling and psychiatric services for further assessment
∎ Collaborate with the Outreach Team to provide psychosocial focused community based activities, assist in tracking of defaulter MH patients, and identify target population needs
∎ Provide monitoring of high-risk MH/SGBV/IPV/DV patients and their appropriate support systems, including follow up with patients on their conditions and functioning
∎ Conducts home visits/ defaulter tracing of some MH cases, in order to reduce the number of drop outs
∎ Provide information and referral to MSF and other community based services
∎ When needed, provide Psychological First Aid
∎ Organize and provide psycho-education sessions with individuals and groups in the community to develop MH awareness, enhance psychosocial functioning, and to address stigmatization of people with mental health problems and survivors of violence
∎ Provides training of volunteers in development of skills to detect and support MH patients in the community
∎ Addresses protection risks and needs of MH patients
∎ Consolidate the link between community and MSF services/health facilities, and offer feedback on how to best involve target groups in development and implementation of activities. Be involved in the creation and support of consistent communication with key community stakeholders and general community
∎ Map and update list of community based actors providing psychosocial services
∎ Ensure confidentiality of all psychosocial and medical cases/records
∎ Contribute towards the development of context specific IEC materials for MH activities in the clinics and in the community
∎ Participate in team meetings and in clinical supervision with Mental Health Supervisor
∎ Contribute to development and delivery of materials for and of groups, trainings, team processes, and support the activities of the Mental Health Supervisor when necessary
∎ Provide written reports, keep records of activities, filing, and documentation. Maintain a central location of all material, forms, and resources
∎ Ensure collection and insertion of data, including related information of the outreach team, using data tools in place
∎ Given the nature of the activities of MSF, the employee may be asked to perform additional tasks not mentioned in the job description.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Two years minimum in a similar social work related job; experience with MSF or other NGOs desirable
∎ Chittagonian local language is essential, English is strongly preferred.
∎ Essential computer literacy (word, excel)

Application Deadline: October 27, 2019

Company Information:
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
∎ Business : Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in many countries worldwide. MSF has been working in Bangladesh since 1992. MSF was awarded the prestigious `Nobel Peace Prize` in 1999 for its pioneering humanitarian activities since 1971 in several continents.

Category: NGO/Development

Read Before Apply: All incomplete applications or those not clearly labelled will be rejected.Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews/testing.Application documents are non-returnable; please do not submit original documents.No applications will be accepted after the deadline.Only Bangladesh citizens will be considered for this position.No monetary, goods or service offers, nor favoritism, will be tolerated in a recruitment process. MSF reserves the right to refuse any candidate having benefited from such acts. Any illicit solicitations can be reported to the justice system. MSF reserves the right to refuse any candidate having benefited from such acts and will stop collaboration with any workers involved in such acts.We advise candidates to update their professional profile on Bd.jobs with all relevant information.