IRD Global Health, Research and Development, Singapore Job Code: HRD-GL/09-019 Qualification:
- Masters degree in Clinical Psychology.
- Registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA)
Experience:
- At least 5 to 8 years’ experience in community-based mental health work. At least to 5 to 8 years of experience providing therapy to people with severe mental health conditions.
- Experience in program management (desirable). Sound understanding of therapy and ethical practices
Jobs Responsibilities:
- Provide weekly individual and group supervision to the community counselors for their technical skill development and ethical practice.
- Provide routine training on basic counseling and screening approaches to existing and new community counselors.
- Develop capacity-building modules, translate or adapt training materials based on contextual needs.
- Troubleshoot any field challenges with the program manager
- Maintain a monitoring and supervision spreadsheet tracking the competencies of each community counselor under their management; maintain the supervision data and notes systematically in Google sheets.
- Conduct screening and counseling for clients referred with high severity of mental health issues.
- Make field visits to conduct scoping or needs assessment of mental health needs and liaise with management to mitigate challenges; monitor in-person or phone-based screening and counseling and Coordinate with the research associates in the team to monitor and evaluate targets for screening and counseling numbers and identify and help resolve issues in the implementation of screening and counseling and correct collection of documentation.
- Fortnightly reporting to the Program Lead on updates related to capacity-building, challenges with implementation and supervision of community counselors.
More Information
- City Johannesburg
- Currency South Africa Rand – ZAR
- Number of Vacancies 1
- Career Level Management
- Years of experience (Min) 5
- Years of experience End ( Max) 8
- Degree Master's degree
- Preferred Nationality Any Nationality
- Gender Any
- Speciality 1 Program Management