Job Responsibilities

• Provide individual and group counselling to the affected population in need.
• Coordinate with the Site Coordinator Assistant and other members of the team the integration of mental health and psychosocial support considerations in community-based activities along the full spectrum of the intervention pyramid.
• Conduct rapid MHPSS assessments to residents, in collaboration with the Social Worker, and inform the existing referral mechanisms.
• In collaboration with the Community Mobilizer, design psychoeducation sessions for the communities, based on identified and emerging needs.
• In collaboration with the Community Mobilizer, supervise artistic mediation activities for vulnerable cases.
• Provide training sessions in PFA and basic counselling skills to humanitarian actors, community focal points and volunteers, and other team members.
• Identify and refer people with severe mental disorders, in coordination with the referral team, if existing.
• Coordinate with the referral team and other team members the inclusion of people with mental disorders in other activities promoted by the teams.
• Develop awareness messages/campaigns related to mental health and psychosocial support to be disseminated to communities. Coordinate with other members of the teams the most efficacious ways to convey those messages.
• Organize support and discussion groups and forums.
• Facilitate MHPSS needs assessments, surveys and research in the concerned communities of the project to enhance access to community-based psychosocial services and specialized mental health care for international protection applicants.
• Map existing support provisions at the microlevel and design, together with the supervisor, initiatives to reinforce their capacity.
• Report daily activities and preparing statistics reports.
• Identify gaps (i.e., lack of cultural mediation services) that should be referred to the project management and local authorities for further action.
• Develop and maintain an efficient mental health referral system for refugees, in coordination with other governmental and/or partner agencies.
• Ensure the confidentiality of medical information of the migrants and refugees.
• Perform such other duties, as may be assigned.