Senior Counsellor

Enroute International Limited

Enroute International Limited

 

Enroute International Limited

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Summary

  • Vacancy: —
  • Location: Cox’s Bazar
  • Experience: At least 2 years
  • Published: 25 Aug 2024

 

Requirements

Education

  • Graduate/Post graduate studies in clinical/counselling/developmental/general psychology

Experience

  • At least 2 years
  • The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):
    IT Enabled Service, NGO, Public Relation Companies, Consulting Firms, Manpower Recruitment

Additional Requirements

Experience Requirements:

  • At least 2 years of previous experiences in clinical psychological and psychotherapeutic  interventions in emergencies.
  • At least 1 years of previous experiences in providing services to displaced populations, migrants, refugees or conflict affected populations
  • Significant experience in providing clinical supervision, coaching, and mentoring to national staff and non-specialists
  • Experience in capacity building activities and curriculum development is an advantage

Skills Requirement:

  • Accountability: Accepts and gives constructive criticism, Follows all relevant procedures, processes, and policies, Meets deadline, cost, and quality requirements for outputs, Monitors own work to correct errors, Takes responsibility for meeting commitments and for any shortcomings.
  • Client Orientation: Identifies the immediate and peripheral clients of own work, Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with clients, Identifies and monitors changes in the needs of clients, including donors, governments, and project beneficiaries, keeps clients informed of developments and setbacks.
  • Continuous Learning: Contributes to colleagues’ learning, demonstrates interest in improving relevant skills, demonstrates interest in acquiring skills relevant to other functional areas, Keeps abreast of developments in own professional area.
  • Communication: Actively shares relevant information, clearly communicates, and listens to feedback on, changing priorities and procedures, Writes clearly and effectively, adapting wording and style to the intended audience, Listens effectively and communicates clearly, adapting delivery to the audience.
  • Creativity and Initiative: Actively seeks new ways of improving programmes or services, Expands responsibilities while maintaining existing ones, Persuades others to consider new ideas, Proactively develops new ways to resolve problems.
  • Leadership and Negotiation: Convinces others to share resources, actively identifies opportunities for and promotes organizational change, Presents goals as shared interests, Articulates vision to motivate colleagues and follows through with commitments.

Languages: Required: Fluent in English, Desirable: Local language

Responsibilities & Context

Job Responsibility:

  • Provide individual and group counselling to the affected population in need.
  • Coordinate with the Project Assistant and other members of the team the integration of mental health considerations in community-based activities along the full spectrum of the intervention pyramid.
  • To set up an ethic and confidential service and formalize inclusion of IOM levels 3 and 4 services (e.g. psychological first aid, stress counselling, brief therapies, solution focused therapy, trauma focused psychotherapy, PM+, group IPT) in relevant referral pathways and networks, customize it to local context and sensitize partners to the service ToRs, modalities of referral and methodologies
  • Work in close collaboration with the health and protection team to ensure ongoing needs of at-risk groups, women and girls are being met in the prevention related activities.
  • Ensure the psychological follow-up of the beneficiaries in regular basis.
  • To maintain appropriate records/database of assessments and any clinical/casework undertaken, and collect and collate statistics for analysis.
  • To conduct clinical supervision sessions for other team members of MHPSS team and community volunteers.
  • In collaboration with other team members to design psychoeducation sessions for the communities, based on identified and emerging needs.
  • Provide training sessions in PFA and basic counselling skills to humanitarian actors, community focal points and volunteers and other team members.
  • Identify and refer people with severe mental disorders, in coordination with the referral team.
  • Coordinate with the MHPSS social worker and other team members the inclusion of people with mental disorders in other activities promoted by the teams.
  • Develop awareness messages/campaigns related to Mental Health and Psychosocial Support to be disseminated to communities.
  • Facilitate MHPSS needs assessments, surveys, researches in the concerned communities of the project to enhance access to community based psychosocial services and specialized mental health care for the affected population, if needed.
  • Map existing support provisions at the microlevel and design together with the supervisor initiative to reinforce their capacity.
  • To proactively assess and analyze the context and propose interventions to enable expansion of both IOM geographic coverage in Ukhiya and Teknaf (Main camp sides) (e.g. psychosocial support in IOM health facilities livelihood interventions for youth and women, Educational Psychology for children etc.).
  • To be ready to provide services in Covid-19 Isolation Treatment Centres, if needed.
  • Support emergency responses after critical incidents (fire incidents, cyclones, etc.), if requested.
  • Prepare weekly reports by collecting, analysing, and summarizing treatment and results data and trends based on MHPSS tools.
  • To perform and other duties as may be needed and agreed with the Project Assistant and MHPSS Officer.

Compensation & Other Benefits

Monthly gross salary for this position is BDT 77,350.17

Employment Status

Contractual

Job Location

Cox’s Bazar

Job Highlights

Job Location: Anywhere in Cox’s Bazar.

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