Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Specialist (MHPSS)- Zimbabwe

The Mental Health Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) professional will strengthen the standard of psychological providers offered at a locally-run torture therapy middle and construct the capability of the middle to raised meet the MHPSS wants of torture survivors. Activities embrace, define MHPSS documentation, revision of evaluation procedures, coaching, medical supervision, assist this system analysis.

This place focuses on assist CSU MHPSS employees in creating intervention and collaborate in writing the unified MHPSS framework, coaching and empowering employees to conduct providers, not on direct provision of providers by the MHPSS professional.

About the Project:

Helping Survivors Heal is a capability improvement undertaking which helps the psychological well being and psychosocial assist (MHPSS) work of 12 torture rehabilitation organizations around the globe by offering subgrants and technical help.

Organization:

The Center for Victims of Torture works towards a future by which torture ceases to exist and its victims have hope for a brand new life. We are a global nonprofit devoted to therapeutic survivors of torture. We provide rehabilitation providers to those that have been tortured, practice companions around the globe who can stop and deal with torture, and advocate for human rights and an finish to torture. We are headquartered in Minnesota, and we’ve got US workplaces in Georgia and DC, in addition to workplaces in Africa and the Middle East.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Clinical Support: Collaborate with the associate middle employees on creating MHPSS providers. Support the event of MHPSS unified strategy and efficient medical insurance policies guideline, practices and instruments when required
• Case session: Provide particular person and group inputs on MHPSS therapies to CSU MHPSS practitioners that features case discussions, reside remark, assist CSU supervisors, performing as a task mannequin for associate practitioners, with emphasis on self-care elements.
• Training: Design and perform coaching packages for native MHPSS practitioners, together with formal coaching periods, mentoring, modeling and supervision. Continually assess improvement of counselors and adapt coaching to satisfy their wants. Build capability of employees members to design and conduct trainings.
• Assessment: In collaboration with the HSH and associate analysis groups, develop clinically applicable evaluation instruments and techniques. Support undertaking group in information assortment and evaluation of group’s present programs and strategies of psychological well being service supply. Support implementation of Institutional Strengthening Plan (ISP) and the annual work plan, in collaboration with the associate middle employees.
• Reporting: Write and submit common stories concerning medical and coaching actions. Mentor employees on report writing.
• Other Duties: Participate in different program and organization-wide actions, conferences and trainings. Complete administrative obligations resembling expense reporting and time sheet submission. Perform different duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Required schooling, expertise, certificates, licenses or registrations

• Advanced diploma (Master’s diploma, PhD or equal) in medical psychology, medical social work, medical counseling
• 4 years of expertise offering psychological well being/psychosocial assist service to quite a lot of goal teams together with torture and trauma survivors, prisoners, adults, households, and adolescents.
• 4 years of expertise offering coaching on MHPSS subjects for contributors with totally different skilled backgrounds and data.
• 3 years of expertise supervising MHPSS practitioners
• Experience working with locally-run NGO associate organizations and negotiating a number of relationships inside and between organizations.
• Years of expertise in writing MHPSS paperwork (resembling guideline, handbook, unified approaches, and many others.)

Preferred schooling, expertise, certificates, licenses or registrations

• 6 years of expertise offering psychological well being/psychosocial assist providers.

• 5 years of expertise supervising MHPSS practitioners

• Experience working with a torture survivor-led group.

Competencies (data, abilities and skills)

• Understand of MHPSS and human rights
• Experience working/dwelling the (recognized context) is most popular
• Experience conducting program wants assessments, program improvement, program evaluations and reporting.
• Flexibility, adaptability, diplomacy and self-sufficiency to work inside an area associate group.
• Training and expertise in cross-cultural sensitivity and adaptation
• Demonstrated flexibility to adapt to altering program necessities, shopper wants and political local weather.
• Understanding of and in depth expertise implementing culturally applicable psychological well being interventions, together with particular person, group and community-based approaches for individuals who have suffered torture and trauma.
• Understanding of and expertise creating curricula and offering coaching for psychological well being counselors on counseling approaches, sensitization on the results of trauma and battle, and designing interventions.
• Appreciation and need for collaborating in and receiving medical supervision
• Excellent abilities in group, consideration to element and time administration (together with the power to satisfy deadlines)
• Working data of Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Word and Excel)
• Fluency in English is a should (oral and writing)
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communications abilities
• Ability to journey by automobile for as much as 8 hours/week.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Case session, the accountability of supervision and high quality of look after shopper’s relays on CSU MHPSS practitioners.

Work Environment:

• Typical workplace setting
• Time spent on the pc is roughly 30%
• Time spent in digital conferences is roughly 15%

Travel: Ability to journey to quite a lot of places inside giant metropolis, rural and metro areas, surrounding communities, and many others.