Main Responsibilities:
- To supervise technically MHPSS activities, psychosocial counsellors and midwives
- To support in implementing and defining MHPSS activities in coordination with MHPSS Project manager and Advisor/Coordinator according to established standards and procedures
- To support in identification of mental health and psychosocial needs, provide technical support in organizing MHPSS trainings for the MHPSS counsellors, and other health staff on MHPSS
- To promote the quality of MHPSS activities, practices, data collection, analysis and reporting
Main Activities
• Supervision of MHPSS activities
- Accompany the hospital and health facilities psychosocial counsellors in their daily activities
- Supervise the psychosocial counsellors and midwives in link with the relevant supervisors at the hospital and health facilities
- Make the link with referral structures when more specialized Mental Health services are needed
- Conduct clinical supervision meetings to discuss the difficulties faced by psychosocial counsellors and midwives in their counselling practices on a weekly basis
- Put in place and monitor the referral system between the different departments of the hospital and health facilities to the psychosocial services and with the external actors
- Contribute to the creation of referral tools from other departments to psychosocial counsellors
- Contribute to the design and adaptation of activities in the hospital/health facilities
- Contribute to SOPs (standard operating procedures) for MHPSS activities proposed
- Provide continuous technical guidance and support to the psychosocial counsellors
• Quality of practices
- Ensure the quality of the psychosocial activities in groups through direct observation of group sessions
- Ensure the quality of individual psychosocial activities through discussions with the counsellors about the sessions conducted
- Use monitoring tools to record the data regarding quality of sessions conducted
- Assess training and capacity building needs of counsellors and midwives on an ongoing basis
- Assess the awareness of hospital staff to understand MHPSS needs and services and make referrals
- Contribute to a continuous assessment of MHPSS needs at the hospital/health facility level in collaboration with hospital/health facilities’ staff and MHPSS counsellors.
Ensure and improve the referral system to the psychosocial counsellors within hospital and health facilities as well as to specialized services
• Training & Capacity Building
- Ongoing training and capacity building of MHPSS counsellors, midwives and health facility staff at the health facility level
- Organise trainings based on the need assessments, needs expressed by the counsellors, midwives and training plan in the project proposal
- Conduct demonstration sessions both in groups as well as individual for on-the-job training and capacity building of MHPSS counsellors and midwives
- Implement trainings and awareness for the hospital staff for understanding MHPSS needs, support as well as referral mechanisms
• Coordination
- Contributing towards identifying actors and mapping services
- Participating in working meetings and coordinating with partner structures in link with Project Manager and MHPSS advisor/Coordinator
- Ensure proper communication channels within MdM team, with health facilities staff
• Monitoring and evaluation
- Carrying out surveys and needs/impact assessments
- Collecting data and participating in data analysis (qualitative and quantitative)
- Drafting activity reports
