Psychologist SRF # 282
Psychologist SRF # 282
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Job Title: Psychologist SRF # 282
Supervisor: Program Officer
Location: Roving
Background:
International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, 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 underserved communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Guide, mentor and supervise counsellors to provide evidence-based psychological assistance to support clients and their families with mental health and psychosocial issues.
- Ensure that all counsellors provide and up to date on evidence-based psychological interventions and advances in the field of psychology.
- Plan and work on professional development opportunities for the counsellors.
- Utilize different supervision styles and demonstrate peer supervision model.
- Improve forms utilization with a focus on bio-psychosocial model, assessments, care plans and mapping of community support services.
- Take on team coaching and mentoring of team members.
- Ensure that the developed initial care plan focus on any immediate safety concerns.
- Lead, guide and participate in case conferences, supervision and training opportunities.
- Develop and deliver trainings for staff on topics relevant to psychological practice and case management.
- Technical support to counsellors to provide and utilize various psychological counselling approaches
- Ensure that counsellors demonstrate and develop care plans that are individualized and mutually developed with the client.
- Monitor on-going care plan development with special attention to safety issues.
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders.
- Support staff to conduct risk assessments and advise staff on carrying out risk assessments and the development of safety plans.
- Oversee and coordinate the provision of case management and psychosocial services to clients, families, and significant others to enable these parties to deal with the impact of illness on individual family functioning and to achieve maximum benefits from services.
- Evaluate client satisfaction and quality of care provided.
- Provide progress feedback and reports on achievement and any other related topics needed.
- Perform other job-related duties as requested by Supervisor
Minmum Qualifications
- Masters Degree in Psychology or Psychological Counselling.
- At least 3 years’ experience
- NGO experience is an asset
- Experience in family and couple counselling or dealing with perpetrators of any forms of GBV is preferrable.
- Expert in SH+ is an asset.
Compliance & Ethics
Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout 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. Communicates these values to staff and to partners and requires them to adhere to these values.
The duties and responsibilities listed are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
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