Counselor Educator - Daily Worker

Workplace : Deir El-Balah, Gaza City
Type of contract : Daily Worker
Starting date : As soon as possible

Main purpose of the position
Perform counseling and/or education sessions to patients, following different medical and mental health MSF protocols and procedures, in order to improve their psychosocial condition.

Responsibilities
• Identify the psychosocial, socio-economic and administrative needs for patients
• Actively promote the availability of counselling services and carry out, individual or in group counseling, basic psycho educational sessions, to patients, their families (when needed), in order to alleviate their psychosocial difficulties within the project scope.
• Refer patients to other specialists
• Participate in the creation of any material needed for counseling activities and look after it,
• Keep files and statistics of daily activities and participate in team meetings to share experiences and discuss special cases with other counselors, preserving confidentiality
• Inform line manager of any problem of any kind arising during the day-to-day activities.
• Take active part in trainings, supervisions/intervisions and support the activities manager when necessary in doing sensitization for MSF staff or external partners about mental health /psychosocial issues.
• Discuss difficulties and problems in counselling with supervisor.

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Requirements
Education: Counseling, psychology or other similar degree/diploma.
Experience: 1 year experience essential. Experience with NGO desirable.
Languages:Arabic essential. English desirable.
Competencies: Results, teamwork, flexibility, commitment, service

Documents to provide:
Updated CV in English
ID copy
Copies of university certificates
Work certificates related to the position

Please note that:

Only complete and relevant applications will be considered
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
The minimum age of employment is 18 years old
MoH staff under contract cannot apply
By applying I recognize to follow the MSF Charter and to honor the following principles:

Médecins sans Frontières provides assistance to populations in distress, to victim of natural or man-made disasters and to victims or armed conflict. They do so irrespective of race, religion, creed or political conviction.
MSF observes neutrality and impartiality in the name of universal medical ethics and the rights to humanitarian assistance and claims full and unhindered freedom in the exercise of its functions.
MSF members undertake to respect their professional code of ethics and to maintain complete independence from all political economic or religious power.
As volunteers, members understand the risks and dangers of the mission they carry out and make no claim for themselves or their assigns for any form of compensation other than that which the association might be able to afford them.

As part of its recruitment process, MSF may collect and process, through an internal due diligence system,
personal information about applicants. MSF is committed to protecting the confidentiality of personal data
applicants provide in their application.