The Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances childrenโs rights and equality for girls.
We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And itโs girls who are most affected.
Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.
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We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.
ROLE PURPOSE
Plan International is a rights-based development and humanitarian organization working for better lives for all children. We are independent of government and have no political or religious affiliation. Our purpose is to strive for a just world that advances childrenโs rights and equality for girls. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.
The MHPSS Counsellor is responsible for support designing and implementation of all emergency and recovery Health related activities specially MHPSS at local level using participatory and community-based approaches. S/he is also responsible to provide surge technical support and guidance at local level to Woreda health office experts and other staff working in the area of MHPSS. S/he is also responsible for compiling progress reports and documentation and sharing of best practices and lessons learnt in MHPSS, SGBV and nutrition.
Accountabilities and MAIN WORK ACTIVITIES
Objective: - Planning and Implementation of the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Activities (30%)
- Ensure correct identification and recruitment of peoples with minor to sever mental problem to individual and group therapy based the established screening criteria
- Ensure correct identification of cases with GBV and disability provide appropriate psychosocial support
- Proved basic stress management and PFA to affected IDP and host community
- Follow-up and track client attendance and participation and document client and project progress to asses MHPSS efficacy
- Document and share learning from counseling, integration with other health/nutrition activity
- Coordinator with MHNT and other MHPSS counselors
- Implement and facilitate awareness-raising sessions at centres and community levels, based on a guidebook; particularly on child development, mothering practices, mother and child interactions and breastfeeding practices
- Ensure IYCF and hygiene sanitation key messages are integrated in MHPSS activity
- Use established protocols to refer clients in need of clinical treatment
- Maintain confidentiality in all matters relating to group participants, consistent with organizational policies and laws
- Collect key client data and prepare reports on progress made, together with observations, challenges faced, and lessons learned
- Work closely with project technical staff in ensuring coordination and integration across all activities
Objective: - Technical Support and Capacity Building (30%)
- Jointly develop monthly, weekly work plan with other MHNT staffs
- Develop and maintain close working relationship with partners responsible for MNCH-N, DRM, MHPSS TWG in their designated area
- Provides support for health and nutrition trainings, workshops, and meetings conducted at zonal/woreda/Kebele level
- Conduct training need assessment to identify relevant community members (Women affair, CSW, HAD, HEW, HWs) knowledge gap and design appropriate training accordingly
- Assist project staffs MHNT and others to include MHPSS key messages in their activity
- Train staffs, CSW, volunteers on mental health impact on nutrition and child development
- Ensure community level referral linkage and collaboration
- Strengthen referral linkage of critical cases between PHCUs and Hospitals
Objective: - Monitoring and Supervision (20%)
- Maintain up-to-date data related to nutrition and MHPSS activities and deliver to H &N coordinator
- Ensure close working relationship with the MHNT and establish coordination and integration of the health and nutrition and the MHPSS activities.
- Facilitate/Conduct joint, supportive supervision with MHNT and CO level health and nutrition thematic specialist on the activities.
- Facilitates and encourages regular review meeting and review schedules at all woreda levels and help the different institutions have it institutionalized commitment;
- Together with other health and nutrition team sets project quality standards and action steps and monitor the performance accordingly;
- Prepare a monthly program and program support plan that helps to visit field activities and provide formal and informal feedback to the program staff in terms of recommendations for improved performance;
- Conducts regular mentoring to community health workers and health extension workers and develop their group and individual counselling skills.
Objective: - Ensuring on time reporting, data quality and learning documentation (20%)