Social Worker

Job Description

Title: Social Worker

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

Vacancy: 1

Age: at least 18 years

Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Maximum Salary: Tk. 56000 (Monthly)

Experience:
∎ At least 2 years
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):NGO

Published: 18 Feb 2025

Education:
∎ Bachelor/Honors
∎ Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Social Science or Psychology is essential.
∎ Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Social Science or Psychology is essential.

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at least 18 years
∎ Demonstrable experience in a similar job as Social Worker, Protection Officer, or equivalent in the Rohingya camps is essential.
∎ Experience with MSF, other INGO/ NGO is desirable.
∎ Fluency in Chittagonian dialect and English is essential.
∎ Teamwork and Cooperation
∎ Solution and Result Orientation
∎ Service orientation and humanitarian spirit
∎ Behavioural Flexibility
∎ Commitment to MSF Principles
∎ Demonstrable experience in a similar job as Social Worker, Protection Officer, or equivalent in the Rohingya camps is essential.
∎ Experience with MSF, other INGO/ NGO is desirable.
∎ Fluency in Chittagonian dialect and English is essential.
∎ Teamwork and Cooperation
∎ Solution and Result Orientation
∎ Service orientation and humanitarian spirit
∎ Behavioural Flexibility
∎ Commitment to MSF Principles

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Conducting social assessments, identifying the social support needs of patients/survivors, including legal, protection, shelter/housing, financial/vocational, food security, and access to medical and psycho-social support services beyond the project intervention scope.
∎ Supporting the provision of comprehensive care to patients and their families, by actively coordinating their work with the other members of the MSF multidisciplinary team (e.g., medical, MHPSS) and linking with multi-sectoral services such as protection, safety, security, legal, justice, education, and livelihood.
∎ Providing direct social support based on social assessments and facilitating referrals to evaluated external re-sources. Provide systematic follow up care regarding attendance of clinical appointments and following up on referrals made to relevant multi-sectoral services aimed at improving the quality of life of patients/survivors.
∎ Participating in the creation and maintenance of any material needed for the activities of social workers, including facilities and equipment in order to ensure continuity.
∎ Mapping and regular updating of formal and informal support services (incl. existing community resources). Assess quality of existing support services, with identification of gaps and advocacy for an improved culturally appropriate social response.
∎ Maintaining records, statistics, files, and reports on all social work activities and follow up care either provided by MSF or other support services. Identifying gaps in the available services and with the team prioritizing and developing plans following the objectives of MSF.
∎ Support project coordination with protection actors, NGOs, and other local agencies to ensure a multi-sectoral response.
∎ Assist patients in navigating healthcare services, including referrals to mental health, SRH, and protection services.
∎ Collaborate with caregivers, and families to provide home-based palliative care.
∎ Work closely with medical teams, mental health professionals, and humanitarian partners to ensure a patient-centered approach.
∎ Actively engage in community programs and contribute to the implementation and enhancement of both existing and new project initiatives.
∎ The employee will show flexibility to perform additional tasks based on the context not mentioned above.
∎ Job Context: Carrying out all activities involving social support to individual patients/survivors and linking them with other relevant support services and communities at large, according to MSF principles and guidelines. Enhancing the target population’s social condition to have an impact on health-related outcomes.
∎ Job Responsibilities:
∎ Conducting social assessments, identifying the social support needs of patients/survivors, including legal, protection, shelter/housing, financial/vocational, food security, and access to medical and psycho-social support services beyond the project intervention scope.
∎ Supporting the provision of comprehensive care to patients and their families, by actively coordinating their work with the other members of the MSF multidisciplinary team (e.g., medical, MHPSS) and linking with multi-sectoral services such as protection, safety, security, legal, justice, education, and livelihood.
∎ Providing direct social support based on social assessments and facilitating referrals to evaluated external re-sources. Provide systematic follow up care regarding attendance of clinical appointments and following up on referrals made to relevant multi-sectoral services aimed at improving the quality of life of patients/survivors.
∎ Participating in the creation and maintenance of any material needed for the activities of social workers, including facilities and equipment in order to ensure continuity.
∎ Mapping and regular updating of formal and informal support services (incl. existing community resources). Assess quality of existing support services, with identification of gaps and advocacy for an improved culturally appropriate social response.
∎ Maintaining records, statistics, files, and reports on all social work activities and follow up care either provided by MSF or other support services. Identifying gaps in the available services and with the team prioritizing and developing plans following the objectives of MSF.
∎ Support project coordination with protection actors, NGOs, and other local agencies to ensure a multi-sectoral response.
∎ Assist patients in navigating healthcare services, including referrals to mental health, SRH, and protection services.
∎ Collaborate with caregivers, and families to provide home-based palliative care.
∎ Work closely with medical teams, mental health professionals, and humanitarian partners to ensure a patient-centered approach.
∎ Actively engage in community programs and contribute to the implementation and enhancement of both existing and new project initiatives.
∎ The employee will show flexibility to perform additional tasks based on the context not mentioned above.

Skills & Expertise:

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
∎ Medical insurance for employee and direct dependents based on Health Care Policy- Locally Hired Staff (LHS).
∎ Salary is not negotiable.Income tax deduction at source will be applicable based on the current income tax rule.
∎ Festival bonus entitlement is effective upon completing one (01) year of uninterrupted service with MSF.
∎ There are no provisions for relocations.
∎ Medical insurance for employee and direct dependents based on Health Care Policy- Locally Hired Staff (LHS).
∎ Salary is not negotiable.Income tax deduction at source will be applicable based on the current income tax rule.
∎ Festival bonus entitlement is effective upon completing one (01) year of uninterrupted service with MSF.
∎ There are no provisions for relocations.

Employment Status: Full Time

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Read Before Apply:

• This is a permanent position. Work location be in Camp 14 & 15.

• Please mention your NID number in the CV.

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and invited for the test. No hard copies of applications will be accepted.

• Only Bangladeshi citizens will be considered for this position.

• No monetary, goods or service offers, nor favoritism, will be tolerated in a recruitment process. 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.

• Médecins Sans Frontières is an equal opportunity employer and encourages diversity, equity and inclusion.

Company Information:
∎ MSF Belgium (Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders)
∎ 1754,ARISTA VILLA,Beside Patabari Temple,Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar
∎ 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.

Address::
∎ 1754,ARISTA VILLA,Beside Patabari Temple,Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar
∎ 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.

Application Deadline: 24 Feb 2025

Category: NGO/Development