Psychosocial Counselor

Start Date: October 2011

Job Title: Psychosocial Counselor

Location: Dadaab Dagahaley Mental Health Program

Job Description / Objective: Psychosocial Counselor to assess, intervene and conduct individual and group support for patients of the Mental Health Program and for the community of Dagahaley Refugee Camp.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement and coordinate the counseling activities for the mental health program in Dagahaley camp.
• Comprehensively assess, propose and develop appropriate interventions for the psychosocial component of the mental health programme.
• Support and capacity building on the psychosocial issues of the community.
• Conduct pre/post counseling for the patients of the Mental Health program and the local community.
• To be actively involved in the follow-up counseling and to ensure adherence to counseling.
• To provide support for home-based teams (e.g. palliative care)
• To train and support lay & peer counselors
• To ensure regular community awareness, education, and networking.
• To prepare and compile weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports, monitoring and evaluation of department activities, attending meetings)

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Diploma in Psychological counseling from a recognized institution
• Experience of 2 -5years providing support to individuals and groups.
• Fluency in English, fluency in Somali would be an advantage.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary team and culturally sensitive to others

Send your CV, motivation letter, copies of relevant documents, mentioning on the envelope “Psychosocial Counselor” to:

The Medical Coordinator
MSF-Switzerland, Kenya Mission
P.O. Box 25091 – 00603
Lavington, Nairobi

Deadline: 10th October 2011

Only short-listed candidate will be contacted.