Psychologist

Project goal

Improve health outcomes of families and alleviate the stress and psychological suffering of vulnerable individuals and families through counseling and therapy sessions  in South Lebanon. 

Project desciption

Blue Mission has partnered with IDEALS for the Karma project.  Karma (Arabic for “dignity”) is an initiative targeting refugee and host communities in the informal settlements of Lebanon’s South and Mount Lebanon Governorates, providing aid to women and and their families. The programme entails outreach to refugee and host populations living in informal settlements in the South and Mount Lebanon to assess the mental and physical health needs of their residents, with an emphasis on women and their children. Beneficiaries who need counselling will be referred to the Blue Mission Centre for psychosocial intervention. The mental health team consist of a Psychologist, Art and Drama therapists, a social worker, Project Manager and administrative staff and community liaisons who will aid in building trust and partnerships with the refugee community, the local Lebanese host population and leaders, be they municipal, informal. 

The Psychologist will be responsible of supporting children and families in need of individualized MHPSS interventions.

As follows: 

Main responsibilities and tasks

• Assess psychosocial and mental health needs of the children, women and men and caregivers referred or self-referred to the mental health staff, and determine if further intervention is needed.
• Coordinate the development of an intervention plan in coordination with the social worker and the project manager to assist children and families in overcoming emotional, relational and developmental difficulties. 
• Provide therapeutic support to children and caregivers through individualized or group therapy sessions
• Identify the need for psychiatric intervention to be referred
• Identify protection and GBV needs and contribute to the development of relevant interventions
• Collaborating and cooperating with other team members
• Performing any other duties relating to the nature of the job as directed by the project manager
• Respect patient privacy and confidentiality, and treat them with respect and care
• Ensuring related means of verification and collecting, entering data about beneficiaries and all the needed information in hard and soft copy
• Participate actively in the monitoring and the reporting of PSS and outreach activities and ensure that data entry forms and templates are used correctly and data is managed timely and with high quality (patient files, forms, statistics, outreach reports) and reported to the Project Manager on a monthly basis. 
• Delivering sessions in a variety of locations.

Education and professional experience

• Master Degree in Clinical Psychology

• At least 2 years of experience in a related field
• Desirable previous experience with NGO
• Experience working with children 

Required Skills

• Excellent English and Arabic writing and speaking abilities.
• Adherence to Blue Mission’s values, policies and protocol and capacity to enforce procedures
• Ability to conduct and coordinate training and participatory assessment
• Focused, confident, and observant, reliable and confidential
• Good understanding of the Lebanese humanitarian context, and specifically the South governorate
• Arabic native speaker and very good proficiency in English, written and oral
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of the google docs, including Excel and Word
• Respect the time schedule and be at work on time
• Teamwork and cooperation
• Creative, open-minded, flexible, self-learner
• Capacity to work under pressure and manage personal stress levels
• Ability to prioritize clearly and oversee multiple tasks
• Delivering other tasks as delegated as required for the project

This recruitment will be open until the post is filled. Only selected candidates will be contacted.