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Psychologist
Reporting To Access to Justice Project Manager
Job Purpose
Provide psycho-social support for the children and their families who were identified through activities of child protection, health and education.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Contribute in the design of child and family assessments and psychometric tools and supervise their administration.
- 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 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 project’s staff on providing basic psycho-social support for children through regular field visits, trainings, 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 a case management system.
- Refer severe cases to appropriate psychological/psychiatric service provider
- Maintain the confidentiality of all the information collected in the exercise of the job.
- Provide Psycho education training to our partners.
- Record the data about children and the activities with the children on database of A2J project
Job Requirements
- A university degree in psychology
- From 3 to 5 years of experience in psychological counselling for children
Technical Competencies
Child Protection Context
- Has 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 ability to explore causes, indicators for and consequences of, existing and emerging forms of abuse, neglect, exploitation and neglect
- Demonstrating ability to make considered decisions about how to act to safeguard or promote children’s welfare
- Demonstrating ability to develop, measure and audit child protection services and service provision in different contexts
Psychological Evaluation
- Conducts clinical interviews
- Uses evidence-based assessment tools (e.g., screening instruments, rating scales, and tests that assess risk, development, personality, psychopathology, cognitive functioning, and organizational functioning)
- Collects and integrates data
- Summarizes and reports data
Managerial Competencies
- Demonstrating 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 ability to anticipate obstacles and develop contingency plans to address them; take necessary corrective action when projects go off-track
- 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