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| Psychosocial Counsellor | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Balkh, |
| Categories | Health Care, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2024-09-10 | Close Date | 2024-09-19 |
| Vacancy No | IMC-BLKH-063 | Gender | Female |
| No Of Jobs | 1 | Contract Duration | Project Based |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree or Minimum requirement is Diploma in Psychology. OR: can consider a midwife with two years extensive experience in PSS field for remote location and where the IPs could not onboard the candidate with bachelor’s degree. | Experience | At least 2-3 years of field experience within a Humanitarian NGO/Agency in the same or similar position. |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | As per project salary scale |
About Company
About International Medical Corps: Organization Background: International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through healthcare training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, the International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide. By offering training and healthcare to local populations and medical assistance to people at high risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergencies, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated healthcare systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance. To learn more about our mission, visit https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/who-we-are.
Job Description
Job Purpose:
He/ she will provide psychosocial support, case management support to vulnerable women and girls through individual counselling follow up support, referrals, and dissemination of information on available services to encourage access to services. She will in collaboration with the PSCC in charge/ MHPSS Technical manger oversee provision of psychosocial /group support, skills building with local partner, information sessions and other recreational activities.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
Under the overall supervision of PSCCs in-charge the PSS counselor will be responsible for:
- Provide Psychosocial case management services, including referral to any other available services (health, specialized, mental health, psychosocial support, etc.) following the guidelines.
- Regular follow-up of individual clients registered in the PSCC.
- Provide individual and group psychosocial support to women and girls at PSCC to help them cope with the trauma reactions.
- Provide psychological first aid (PFA) and assess the needs of clients through one-to-one sessions.
- Responsible for maintaining and confidentiality of all registered documents.
- Compile and share weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting with the PSCC in charge and others based on requirement.
- Ensure that all work with clients is kept confidential and that ethical practices are always followed.
- Follow the organization and donor approved policies /protocols and will apply the guiding principle during service provision.
- Established a good working relation network with hospital management team and mental health departments of the hospital for referral.
- Create a supportive environment for standard case management and provision of quality PSS service.
- Use the donor approved IEC tools during service provision.
- Based on the request of the authorized person, attend, and participate in all relevant meetings/training-related meetings for the program's purpose.
- Adhere to the Code of Conduct, maintain humanitarian principles and respect international humanitarian law.
- Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within International Medical Corps and amongst beneficiaries served by International Medical Corps.
- Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the International Medical Corps. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of International Medical Corps and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards. Conducts work with the highest level of integrity.
- It is all staff’s shared responsibility and obligation to safeguard and protect populations with whom we work, including adults who may be particularly vulnerable and children. This includes safeguarding from the following conduct by our staff or partners: sexual exploitation and abuse; exploitation, neglect, or abuse of children and adults at risk; and any form of trafficking in persons.
Organizational Responsibilities:
Policy Adherence:
Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:
Compliance & Ethics:
Safeguarding:
Job Requirement
Qualifications:
Essential:
- Bachelor’s degree or Minimum requirement is Diploma in Psychology
OR
- can consider a midwife with two years extensive experience in PSS field for remote location and where the IPs could not onboard the candidate with bachelor’s degree.
Desirable:
- A bachelor’s in psychology will be given preference.
Experience:
- At least 2-3 years of field experience within a Humanitarian NGO/Agency in the same or similar position.
Competency:
- Extensive experience providing individuals and groups psychosocial support.
- Strength in interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
- Skilled at working as a team member.
- Able to speak/write in Pashto and Dari with clarity and ease.
- Flexibility and willingness to change work practices and hours.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Demonstrate strong local language correspondence skills. Particularly in fluency in
- To be able to propose solutions to the identified problems/challenges.
- Attitudes and aptitude aligned with the positions are essential.
Submission Guideline
Dear Applicant,
International Medical Corps never asks job applicants for a fee, payment, or other monetary transaction. If you are asked for money in connection with this recruitment, please report to International Medical Corps at the website provided at the end of this document.
Please note that:
- IMC commits to a fair and transparent recruitment procedure.
- IMC will conduct his recruitment on the base of need only.
- Only HR department will contact you during the recruitment process.
- IMC may keep data of your application for its pool of candidate and might propose you other position than the one you applied for based on your qualification.
- Only short-listed candidates whose application responds to the criteria will be contacted & local applicants from the same province are encouraged to apply and will be given priority.
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Preference will be given to local residence applicants.
Website for reporting misconduct: www.InternationalMedicalCorps.ethicspoint.com. Please do not submit your CV or application to this website, it will not be considered for review.
Equal Opportunities:
International Medical Corps is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, or status as a veteran.
Misconduct Disclosure Scheme:
All offers of employment at International Medical Corps are subject to satisfactory references and background checks. The International Medical Corps participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme from the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR). In accordance with this, we will request information from an applicant’s previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.