MHPSS Team leader -PRF-2402-01009-1463

Position: MHPSS Team leader -PRF-2402-01009-1463

Job Location: MHPSS Center -Kilis, Turkey

Reporting to: Psychiatrist and technically to Senior MHPSS Officer

Working area: Kilis, Turkey

Number of positions open: 1

Last date for application: March 19, 2024

Summary of the position

The role of the MHPSS Team Leader is to provide technical and administrative supervision to the Psychologists and PSS Workers in the MHPSS Center, compiling the regular reports and outputs of the team members.

Key relationships:

Psychiatrist, psychologist, PSS workers, MHPSS Center staff

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Cooperating with the psychiatrist to provide technical and administrative supervision and follow-up for the psychologists and the PSS Workers in the MHPSS Center through in-person supervision sessions and group supervision sessions.
• Supporting the psychologists and the PSS workers when they work with the severe and complicated cases of beneficiaries.
• Compiling the regular and requested quantitative and qualitative reports by the supervised Psychologists and PSS Workers and working on a final report summarizes them and sharing them when they are requested.
• Ensuring commitment of the MHPSS Center’s team members of the work’s times and fulfilling their tasks.
• Organizing the process of monthly and quarterly planning for the activities of the center and providing the technical supervision and follow-up on the conducted Support groups, raising awareness sessions, advocacy campaigns, and outreach visits through review and follow-up on outlines and plans, outcomes, implementation, and periodic and final reports.
• Ensuring a high level of coordination internally and externally with other service providers in Gaziantep and other Turkish cities regarding the active referral system for the beneficiary’s needs.
• Participating in facilitating building capacities training sessions for the psychologists and the PSS Workers in the MHPSS Center.
• Ensuring the documentation of the written files in the MHPSS to respect confidentiality and humanitarian work principles and ensure clinical accuracy.

THE CANDIDATE’S REQUIREMENTS

Mandatory Qualifications required.

• A university degree in Psychology is mandatory.
• Minimum three years’ experience in Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists.

Languages:

• Fluent written and spoken in Arabic (native speaker)
• Pre-intermediate written and spoken in Turkish and English.

Competencies:

• MS – Excel
• MS – Word