PHD has been engaged in providing expert health and development supports (NGO contracting, fund management, capacity development, research and other consultancy services) to the government, development partners, donors, NGOs and private organisations since 1988.
Number of Position
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3
Employment Type
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Full Time
Job Location
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Cox's Bazar, Cox's Bazar (Teknaf ...
Salary
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Tk. 60000 (Monthly)
Educational Requirement
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Bachelor/Honors, Masters in any discipline
Other Requirement
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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.
Additional Skills:
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
Working experience in public health facilities under World Bank supported Health and Gender Support Program will be preferred.
Experience
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At least 2 years
Responsibilities
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Project Name: ‘‘Health System Strengthening at Government Health Facilities at Cox’s Bazar’’Reportable to: UH&FPO – Ukhiya and Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar Monitoring & Technical Assistants: PHD in collaboration with IOM will deploy a group of staff led by Team Leader for round-the-clock monitoring and technical support. This may include spot check, review of performance reports and assessing technical competency.Accountable to: As an appointing authority, you will be accountable to PHD for legal and disciplinary procedures for which PHD will review your performances periodically. Team Leader of this project and senior officials will represent PHD.Job Objective:The Senior Counsellor will be recruited as a part of human resource support under the joint collaboration between PHD and IOM to enhance access, quality and utilization of essential health, nutrition and GBV services in Ukhiya and Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar. The Senior Counsellor will be responsible to deliver tailored mental health and psychosocial support—through individual and group counselling, community outreach, referral coordination, staff training, and data-driven reporting, ensuring adherence to national MHPSS protocols and enhancing community wellbeing. Responsibilities:The Senior Counsellor will undertake the following tasks in the respective department assigned by the hospital authority, not limited to:
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, adolescent care ) 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 Centers, if needed and 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
