PSS WORKER

Position: PSS Worker – PRF-2307-01003-366

Job Location: MHPSS Center -Rehanli, Turkey

Reporting to: MHPSS Team leader and technically Senior MHPSS officer

Working area: Rehanli, Turkey

Number of positions open: 4

Last date for application: August 4, 2023

Summary of the position

The role of the Psycho-social Support Workers is to provide Psycho-social service through comprehensive assessment, recovery planning, implementation and overall evaluation of individual needs and additional ways of support in additional to conducting outreach visits in the community on a regular basis.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Key relationships:

Team Leader, psychologist, PSS workers, MHPSS Center staff

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Working affectively with the other MHPSS Center’s team members to ensure a high quality of work with full respect of the Humanitarian Work Principles.
• Supporting the beneficiaries with creating their recovery plan (with step-by-step recovery goals) based on the needs and problems, in addition to the continuous follow up according to their care plans.
• Participating in linking the beneficiaries with the suitable services to their needs when it exceeds the PSS Workers skills (Referral system and monitoring the internal and external referrals done) including the coordination with other service providers to fulfill the additional needs of the beneficiaries.
• Providing the needed psycho-education to the beneficiaries and their care givers and family members.
• Building the PSS support based on the beneficiaries’ strengths and supportive real elements in their lives.
• Taking in consideration the reported evaluations of Beneficiaries’ satisfaction into consideration to improve the PSS service quality.
• Ensuring the confidentiality of beneficiaries’ information documented in the assessment forms and the clinical soft and hard copies while ensuring good quality of documentation of the beneficiaries’ files and information.
• Participating in the ongoing group and individual technical supervision sessions.
• Providing weekly/monthly regular updates and reports to the supervisor.
• Participating in raising awareness regarding MHPSS disorders and the rights of people who suffer from them on both individual and the community level.
• Conducting outreach visits to the communities in Gaziantep on a regular basis.
• Active participation in advocacy campaigns and celebration of world days related to MHPSS such as (World Mental Health Day, international Day for people with disability…etc.).
• Facilitating group activities for beneficiaries and group activities of care providers of the beneficiaries.

THE CANDIDATE’S REQUIREMENTS

Mandatory Qualifications required:

• A university degree in the relevant field of study (e.g., bachelor of psychological counseling /Psychology or Sociology is Desirable or any related certificate.

Languages:

• fluent written and spoken in Arabic (native speaker)
• Intermediate written and spoken in Turkish.

Competencies:

• Remote Management Tools and Techniques