Job Summary

Under the direct supervision of the Project Manager, the Psychologist/Mental Health Support Officer will be responsible for providing psychosocial support, counseling, and mental health services to individuals and communities served by the organization. This role involves conducting assessments, delivering interventions, and building capacity to address mental health needs and promote well-being.

Job Specification

• To assess patient’s needs, abilities or behavior using, interviews, direct observation, tests, and variety of tools/methods.
• To offer therapy for difficulties relating to anxiety, depression, addictions, social and interpersonal problems and increasingly, a range of challenging problems.
• To contribute to rehabilitating of patients in the community with the demonstration of psychological approaches in their lives.
• To refer patients to specialists or to other institutions/organizations for non-counselling treatment of problems.
• Provide referrals when necessary for additional care, evaluation, or treatment
• To record and monitor patients progress through regular meetings or sessions
• Offer services to all age, gender, religion groups of people
• Compile and ensure timely submission of daily/monthly reports and records
• Analyze data such as interview notes, test results, and reference manuals in order to identify symptoms, and to diagnose the nature of clients' problems.
• Counsel individuals, groups, or families to help them understand problems, define goals, and develop realistic action plans.
• Identify and document success stories, best practices and lessons learned.
• Carry out awareness raising sessions and outreach activities in the targeted community.
• Diagnosis or evaluates mental and emotional disorders of individuals and formulating and creating personalized interventions, treatments and management plans and treatment methods such as psychotherapy, behavior modification and stress reduction therapy for patients.
• Provides crisis intervention in situations requiring immediate psychological treatment.
• Keeping track record (documentation and record keeping) of all field activities.
• To maintain confidentiality of patient’s identification and issues.
• To make sure that all enrolled students are examined once in their three-month course schedule for wellness checkup.
• Lead and supervise a team of Community Wellbeing Mentors (CWMs), providing training and ongoing support to ensure they effectively deliver MHPSS services to the community.
• Conduct regular capacity-building sessions for CWMs on best practices in psychosocial support, mental health first aid and crisis intervention.
• Perform other project related duties assigned by the supervisor

Job Specification

• Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology.
• Professional license or certification in mental health counseling or psychology.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience providing counseling or mental health support services, preferably in humanitarian or development settings.
• In depth knowledge and experience of mental health and psychosocial programming in the humanitarian context is essential.
• Strong writing reporting and filing/data management skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to establish rapport, empathy, and trust with clients from diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams and collaborate with local stakeholders and partners.
• Fluency in local languages spoken in the community is highly desirable (Pashto or Dari).