وظيفة شاغرة لدى جمعية Amel (Ngo): مطلوب أخصائية نفسي (Psychologist ( Enable ))

The Enable project was launched in 2019 to offer quality education services to the most vulnerable children living in the vicinity of the Amel center in Ain Remmaneh. The project aims empower the most vulnerable children in their learning journey through their successful school retention. More specifically, the project aims at improving quality retention of vulnerable school-aged children (6-15 years old) in public & semi private schools through Non-Formal Education while also ensuring psychological and psychosocial support for children and their caregivers.

With the support of a larger group of community members (children, youths, adults), the Enable team (retention support project) will have a positive impact on the whole community and strengthen the right to quality education for all.

The psychologist is based in Amel’s community center in Ain Remmaneh. She/He works in close collaboration with the social worker, under the direct supervision of the Field Officer and the coordination team based in the Headquarter. She/He is in charge of the identification, individual follow up and referral of the psychological cases among children enrolled in the project and their caregivers.

TASKS

Task #1 – Identification and referral mechanism

–  Identify the psychological needs of the children and their families through observation and the implementation of the internal referral pathways (receiving referrals from the social worker);

–  Identify protection concerns and provide psychosocial support to cases of concern as needed;

–  Collect, analyze, and synthesize information in order to implement and support intervention methods and techniques.

Task # 2 –Direct Psychological support

– Provide adequate psychological support to the children enrolled in the education program and to their caregivers according to the needs identified. The psychologist is conducting individual sessions and focus group discussions according to the intervention plan;

– Coordinate and work directly with the social worker and the animators to develop intervention plans and follow up (suggest the needed sessions to be included in the PSS monthly plan);

–  Keep track of patient numbers/cases through outpatient records;

–  Complete intake assessments, evaluations, treatment recommendations, reviews, and other documentation as necessary;

–   Implement the Child Protection Protocol and follow up with the project’s team members to ensure that the protocol is carefully followed by all members.

Task # 3-Internal / External referrals

– Being and remained fully informed of all psychological services provided by Amel community centers and Mobile Units through a close coordination with other sectors;

–  Contribute to develop a local mapping of the local stakeholders with the Field Officer and the Social Worker to develop Amel’s network and facilitate external referrals. The psychologist is only required to support on the psychological level;

– Each internal / external referral is discussed first with the social worker.

Task #4: Coordination & Monitoring and Evaluation

–  Participate in training and initiate internal meetings in the psychologist’s area of expertise and depending on the needs;

– Weekly reports to be shared with the field officer and coordinators. The weekly report includes the exhaustive description of all activities, challenges, needs identified and the achievements of the week. The psychologist is required to fill the template with all information in a comprehensive way;

–  Submit on a weekly basis the updated table of patients;