Position Summary:
The MHPSS Counselor provides individual and group counseling at RI Clinics, focusing on mental health support. Responsibilities include community engagement, coordinating referrals, and developing psychosocial activities.
Essential Responsibilities And Duties:
Deliver one-on-one (Individual) and group counselling sessions to identified clients within RI Clinics, and in line with RI integrated approach.
Develop psychosocial activities; community mobilization, awareness raising, and any other related activity requested by Supervisor.
Support in the creation of materials including publicity documents.
Assist in writing monthly, quarterly, annual reports, monitoring and evaluation activity and progress reports of project activities including monthly reporting to the Supervisor.
Assist in the implementation of preventive MHPSS interventions at the community and HF level.
Coordinate referrals.
Participation in RI internal meetings, trainings, and individual meetings with the Supervisor.
Provide MHPSS consultations within PHC setting:
Provide individual or group consultations to beneficiaries presenting in PHC or referred and in need of MH interventions.
Assist in the identification of psycho-social needs and proposition needed interventions in collaboration with the mental health team and PHC staff.
Weekly reporting activities and data collection
Coordinate with supervisor on cases requiring higher level interventions.
- Provide psycho-social support for mental health beneficiaries:
Work directly with Supervisor to develop individualized treatment plans for MH beneficiaries.
In coordination with community mobilizers use participatory methods to adapt activities in accordance with the needs of the different target groups (children, women etc)
- Community mental health interventions:
Participate in defining effective and culturally appropriate approaches and interventions on the community level.
Focus on information dissemination and collecting opinions to foster knowledge and self-care practices for communities in areas of intervention.
Initiate and facilitate group interventions.
Analysis, detection, and reduction of risk factors influencing the mental health status at community level:
In collaboration with the mental health team, explore and detect potential risk factors influencing mental health status of the target population.
Coordinate with other actors concerned to reduce and/or eliminate potential risk factors.
