Psychologist

Position: Psychologist – PRF-2209-01002-291

Job Location: Gaziantep, Turkey

Reporting to: MHPSS Team leader and MHPSS Officer

Working area: Gaziantep, Turkey

Number of positions open: 1

Last date for application: October 10th, 2022

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Key relationships:

Psychiatrist, Team Leader, PSS workers, MHPSS Center staff

General objective of the position:

Psychologist is to provide Psychotherapy services through comprehensive assessment, Therapy plan, implementation, follow up in additional to participating with other MHPSS activities.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Work affectively with the other MHPSS Center’s team members to ensure a high quality of work with full respect of the Humanitarian Work Principles.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments for individuals on the psychological, social and mental level.
• Provide psychotherapy sessions for individuals with MHPSS Disorders and support their care givers to understand the individuals’ problems and how they could support them.
• Provide group psychotherapy sessions for groups of individuals with similar MHPSS Disorders.
• Conduct additional assessments such as (IQ test…etc.) when needed.
• Follow up on the recovery process through gradual coordination with the psychiatrist and the PSS workers for beneficiaries who are receiving additional PSS and Mental Health Sessions.
• Continue coordinating with the others MHPSS Center’s team members to ensure linking beneficiaries with the required service providers given their needs.
• Provide psycho-education sessions for beneficiaries, their care givers and family members.
• Take into consideration the reported Beneficiaries’ satisfaction to improve the MHPSS service quality.
• Ensure the confidentiality of beneficiaries’ information documented in the assessment forms and the clinical soft and hard copies.
• Participate in group and individual technical supervision sessions.
• Provide weekly/monthly regular updates and reports to the supervisor.
• Participate in raising awareness regarding the MHPSS disorders on both individual and the community level.
• Have active participation in advocacy campaigns and celebration of world days related to MHPSS such as (World Mental Health Day, international Day for people with disability…etc.).
• Facilitate group activities for beneficiaries and group activities of care providers of the beneficiaries.

Center culture

• Promote and model a positive, professional and respectful center culture.
• Ensure effective internal communications.

THE CANDIDATE’S REQUIREMENTS

Mandatory Qualifications required

• University degree in Psychology, or psychological counseling.
• Mandatory 3 years’ experience in clinical psychologists.

Languages

• Advanced written and spoken in Arabic
• Pre-intermediate written and spoken Turkish

Competencies:

• Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)