Overview
Provide direct clinical and psychosocial support interventions for individuals experiencing distress, trauma-related symptoms, severe emotional difficulties, or psychosocial vulnerabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide direct psychological support services through individual counselling, supportive psychotherapy, crisis intervention, and psychosocial assessments.
- Conduct structured MHPSS assessments and identify individuals requiring specialized mental health support or referral.
- Provide psychosocial support and follow-up for complex and high-risk cases.
- Facilitate group counselling sessions, psychoeducation activities, stress management sessions, and psychosocial support groups.
- Support referral processes to psychiatric, medical, protection, or specialized services.
- Participate in suicide prevention and suicide watch procedures.
- Maintain confidential case files and accurate documentation.
- Assist in the development of culturally appropriate psychosocial materials and intervention tools.
- Provide technical support and guidance to MHPSS frontline staff and community workers.
- Support MHPSS activity tracking, reporting, and monitoring.
- Participate in multidisciplinary meetings and coordination activities.
Required Experience
Experience providing direct psychological services in humanitarian, migration, displacement, or low-resource settings. Experience supporting individuals affected by trauma, violence, displacement, or severe distress. Experience working with vulnerable populations including migrants, displaced persons, women, youth, and survivors of violence. Experience in humanitarian or emergency settings is highly desirable.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Psychology, Psychology, Counselling Psychology, or related mental health field from an accredited academic institution, or related field with two years of relevant professional experience; or, Master’s degree in above fields. Professional registration/license to practice psychology is an advantage.
