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Psychologist

Terre des hommes
Downtown, Cairo
Posted 3 years ago
60Applicants for1 open position
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Roles & Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the design of child and family assessments and psychometric tools and supervise their administration and implementation.
  • Conduct individual sessions with children and parents in need of psychotherapy as required.
  • Prepare and lead on group counselling sessions with target groups referred from the case management team.
  • Develop a detailed monthly action plan for the main psycho-social activities to be conducted.
  • Participate in delivering necessary technical support for the project’s staff on providing basic psycho-social support for children through regular field visits, training, and on-site observation.
  • Prepare progress reports for all cases supported.
  • Collaborate with the communication and reporting team to develop monthly required reports.
  • Contribute to the design and facilitation of other project activities building resilience and well-being of target group; in addition to delivering awareness raising sessions.
  • Help implement and supervise the case management system.
  • Refer severe cases to appropriate psychological/psychiatric service providers.
  • Maintain the confidentiality of all the information collected in the exercise of the job.
  • Provide Psycho-sensitive education training to our partners.
  • Record the data about children and the activities with the children on the database of Acess 2 Justice project.

Job Requirements

Requirements:

  • 3 to 5 years of experience in psychological counselling for children
  • A university degree in psychology
  • Preferably a post-graduate degree in Psychology

Child Protection Context

  • Has an in-depth understanding of core theories related to child care and protection.
  • Has expert knowledge of national and international legal frameworks and conventions related to child care and protection.
  • Demonstrating the ability to explore causes, indicators for and consequences of, existing and emerging forms of abuse, neglect and exploitation.
  • Demonstrating the ability to make considered decisions about how to act to safeguard or promote children’s welfare.
  • Demonstrating the ability to develop, measure and audit child protection services and service provision in different contexts.

Psychological Evaluation

  • Able to conduct clinical interviews.
  • Able to use evidence-based assessment tools (e.g., screening instruments, rating scales, and tests that assess risks, development, personality, psychopathology, cognitive functioning, and organizational functioning)
  • Able to collect and integrate data.
  • Able to summarize and report data.

Psychological Interventions

  • Have the knowledge and the ability to plan, implement and monitor progress of interventions designed to alleviate suffering and to promote health and well-being to targeted communities.

Managerial Competencies

Planning & Organizing

  • Demonstrating the ability to develop and implement strategies and work plans to achieve projects goals.
  • Demonstrating full understanding and ability to allocate time and resources needed to carry out activities and monitoring progress.
  • Demonstrating the ability to anticipate obstacles and develop contingency plans to address them; take necessary corrective action when projects go off-track.

Judgment

  • Capacity to foresee the indications and repercussions of situations and take the right action to be ready for any probabilities.
  • Good judgment and discretion working with highly confidential information.

Communication

  • Demonstrating the ability to asking probing questions and actively listening to responses, while engaging and communicating with others and present results in a clear and user-friendly way as well as to write up evaluation reports.

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