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Position Summary:

The  Psychosocial Counsellor is the dedicated staff to provide all sort of psycho - social counselling of the patients. He will be responsible to screen and identify and triaged those with mental health problems as per the different standard scales to know the severity of the patients health and provide standard number of counselling in a proper place that is comfortable for the patient and their privacy is kept.

Essential Responsibilities And Duties:

• Develop field activities plan in close coordination with project medical doctor.
• Assessing and identification of children, women and girls for psychosocial support in targeted communities
• Schedule and conduct field meetings with CDC heads, Women leaders, Parents and other target beneficiaries
• Conduct psychosocial pre-developed training plans in target communities
• Familiarize with existing pathways or where necessary develop a system for referral cases and case management, which are needing further PSS support or other services.
• Provide context related PSS support at the individual, family, and community members.
• Conduct specific psychosocial group activities, adapted and appropriate to group’s specific needs and capacities.
• When needed work in close collaboration with faith leaders and others relevant authorities to create and implement psychosocial activities in the centers and the communities.
• Supporting social mobilizers to conduct awareness sessions to the project beneficiaries

Any other project related task assigned by project officer.

• One Year  Certificate in PSC (Psychosocial counselling ) from Ministry of Public Health or HSC diploma (Health Social counselling) from Ghazanfar Institute.
• Strong Command on Pashto/Dari

Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-ethnic team and take on diverse tasks.

• Working experience in the targeted provinces and familiar with concerned community, geography and culture.

No job experience are required

The interested candidates should submit their RI Application letter with a CV and with three references.
Please Mention the announced position and vacancy number in the email subject please like (Psychosocail Counsellor RI-NIM-2025-02)
Via email: vacancies.afghanistan@ri.org
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
Please download the RI application form through below link. fill and send it along with your CV: :
http://www.acbar.org/upload/1572844955489.DOCX
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