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MHPSS Counselor job Post
Location: Jobs in Uganda 2024 - 2025
Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day
Salary:
UGX
No. of vacancies: 01
Deadline: 16 October 2024
Hiring Organization: ALIGHT
Job Details:
Description
Hello Hello! Alight is recruiting MHPSS Couselor for our program in Uganda to be based at Bubukwanga Transit Centre . You’re interested in joining us? Welcome, we’re happy you’re here!
If you join us, you will find…
A team with deep experience in co-designing solutions that create new value around the world. We know we need to always be better, and we believe in the power and abundance of everyday people, everywhere, to change the world with us.
A culture of radical accountability to our customers –as we help build a meaningful life for and with the displaced, we ask them what they want and then deliver on it.
The MHPSS Counselor will be responsible for promoting recovery among refugee and host community children and young people with psychological distress and mental health challenges in line with Inter-Agency Standard Committee guidelines. Specifically, the incumbent will be responsible for conducting assessment, planning for activity implementation, and monitoring, capacity building of staff and community-based structures on Psychosocial support (PSS) and coordination with other MHPSS partners and colleagues within in provision of quality PSS services for the children, young people and their families while ensuring proper documentation and reporting. Also, he/she will work closely with other sub-sectors like SGBV, legal, community-based services and the community-based structures including Child Friendly Space Facilitators, school clubs and peer to peer support groups’ leaders at the community level to ensure comprehensive and quality PSS is provided to children experiencing psychological distress and mental disorders like depression, stress, trauma, etc.
The MHPSS counselor of ALIGHT provides quality psychological care services to refugees and nationals in individual and group sessions at ALIGHT office premises and in the community on outreaches. The postion operates under the technical supervision of the Senior Clinical psychologist ALIGHT and administratively reports to the Team Leader.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
eneral responsibility
• Ensuring that the mandate and core values of ALIGHT are always represented and protected in the actions of the psychological counselor of ALIGHT internally and externally while on duty as well as off duty.
WE WISH YOU GOOD LUCK
Date Posted: 2024-10-02
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