The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society

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Summary

Vacancy: 1
Age: at most 40 years
Location: Cox’s Bazar (Ukhia)
Minimum Salary: Tk. 40722 (Monthly)
Experience: At least 3 years
Published: 24 Jun 2024

Requirements

Education

Minimum Graduate in psychology/counselling psychology/social works/behavioral sciences/sociology or any other relevant field.
Masters will be preferred.

Experience

At least 3 years

Additional Requirements

Age at most 40 years

Age Limit: Upto 40 years (may be relaxed for extraordinary candidates).
Basic training on Psychological First Aid.
Minimum 03 (three) years of experience in a similar position with National or International NGOs.
Capacity to communicate in Rohingya/Chattertonian Chittagonian dialect required.
Expertise and experience in Community Based Psychosocial Support.
Work as a team player and has flexibility in his/her work.
can work independently and innovatively to develop and implement supervision and training activities that help expand community participation.
An understanding of and commitment to BDRCS and RCRC movement’s mission and values.
Report writing skills.
Must have cultural sensitivity and the ability to work in a multi-cultural team.
Fluent in spoken and written (Bangla & English).

Responsibilities & Context

Red Cross – Red Crescent movement is the largest volunteer organization in the world. Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) is a national society of the movement, constituted on 31 March 1973 by the President’s Order No. 26 of 1973 with retrospective effect from 16 December 1971. This is the biggest humanitarian organization in Bangladesh. As an auxiliary to the government, the Society provides humanitarian assistance to vulnerable people over the last 53 years and has undertaken a wide range of activities in humanitarian response, disaster management, livelihood, health, WASH, capacity building and in promoting Red Cross/ Red Crescent ideals and principles.
BDRCS, under its Population Movement Operation (PMO), has been providing humanitarian services since 2017 for the displaced Rohingya people from Rakhine state of Myanmar who have been sheltered in different camps under Ukhiya and Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar. Currently, BDRCS is looking for a suitable Bangladeshi national for the following position under PMO, Cox’s Bazar:
Duration of Contract: Upto 31/12/2024 (with possibility of extension).
Reportable to: PSS program lead/ Senior PSS Officer, PMO.

Purpose of the Position

Enhance and improve mental health and psychosocial well-being of affected population, staff and volunteers, assist community psychosocial volunteers in delivering quality psychosocial support to affected individuals, families and community, and strengthen the referral system, make coordination with MHPSS actors in the camp.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Objective 1: Improve the mental health and psychosocial conditions of affected individuals.

Observe and identify individuals in distress who may require basic psychosocial support services at the health center or at family level.
Provide Psychological First Aid (PFA) to patients, care givers or children in distress at the health center or in homes.
Conduct plays and recreational activities with children at the center as part of their emotional support.
Assess individuals who may present severe symptoms of distress and make safe referrals for specialized care and management
Conduct follow up to the people supported to ensure their recovery and normal functioning.
Document store beneficiary information in a safe and confidential manner.

Objective 2: Support health center staff and volunteers take care of their mental health and psychosocial wellbeing

Conduct basic training in Psychological First Aid skills for health center staff and volunteers.
Establish and support staff and volunteer care system through training in self-care and stress management skills.
Observe, identify, and provide individual or group psychological First Aid to health staff and volunteers in distress.
Provide lay counselling and stress management to staff and volunteers with severe distress.
Identify and refer staff and volunteers with severe mental health conditions to specialized services providers.

Objective 3: Support community outreach volunteers to provide quality psychosocial support to affected individuals and families.

Orient /train community outreach volunteers in psychological First Aid and self-care skill.
Guide community outreach volunteers in observing and identifying individuals in distress at community level including recognizing people with severe distress for referral.
Guide community outreach volunteers to provide basic psychological first aid to individuals and family member through outreach.
Coach, mentor and supervise community outreach volunteers during the implementation of psycho-social activities at community level.

Objective 4: Strengthen the referral system between the health center, specialized PSS service providers and the PSS focal point in the camp and host communities.

Adapt and prepare referral guidelines, materials, and tools for use at the health center and by the community outreach volunteers.
Collaborate with the camp PSS focal point and other specialized PSS service providers to develop and use referral pathways for severe mental health conditions.
Orient community outreach volunteers in the use of the referral tools and procedures for safe and dignified referrals and follow up.
Document and store in a confidential manner, all referral cases being managed and or closed.
Producing timely progress reports, including both quantitative and qualitative information, on PSS activities.
Manage and use the PSS materials, guideline, and tools in close coordination with the PSS focal point at PMO.
Prepare and submit monthly technical report to the PSS focal point at PMO detailing individual’s key issues and concerns for further action.

Employment Status

Contractual

Gender

Only Female

Job Location

Cox’s Bazar (Ukhia)

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