MHPSS Officer at Unique Care and Support Foundation (CASFOD)

Unique Care and Support Foundation (CASFOD) is a children and women’s rights national non-governmental organization supporting the Humanitarian, Development and Peace (HDP) nexus. CASFOD envisions a world where all people even in remote areas of the world hold the power to create opportunities for themselves and others.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: MHPSS Officer

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Job type: Full time

Role Purpose

• The role will be responsible for providing and/or ensuring provision of MHPSS services to vulnerable and at-risk children, their families and communities, learning spaces, community centers and schools using models including child and youth resilience, HEART, structured play and recreation, home-based care, individual counselling, group counselling, among others.
• The MHPSS officer will support the counselling of children who suffer or at risk of mental and psychological problem.
• The MHPSS Officer will work in close collaboration with other colleagues in child protection, education, health, nutrition as well as other sectors and ensures integrated services and contextualized MHPSS messaging for children, caregivers and the communities. 

Key Responsibilities

• Support the planning and rollout of models including child and youth resilience, HEART, structured play and recreation, home-based care, individual counselling, group counselling, among others while ensuring MHPSS and child protection principles and standards are followed and complied with. 
• Build capacity of counsellors, case workers, community volunteers and key stakeholders on MHPSS and how to integrate MHPSS in their day-to-day work with vulnerable and at-risk children, caregivers and their communities. 
• Assess MHPSS capacity building needs among other sectoral staff, community structures, caregivers, teachers and children themselves and develop and implement capacity building plans. 
• Develop and conduct assessment to understand the MHPSS needs of children, caregivers, teachers and community members and use the results to develop appropriate MHPSS prevention and response interventions. 
• Ensures that case management staff are appropriately reflecting MHPSS support in their daily work with children and caregivers. 
• Provide appropriate tailored/focused counselling support for cases with mental and psychological support that may require such support. 
• Conduct regular visits to the field project sites to support MHPSS interventions/services and to conduct counselling sessions for children of concern, caregivers and other stakeholders. 
• Compile the weekly and periodic data, as appropriate, of cases supported with MHPSS services. 
• Provide high quality periodic reports as may be required from time to time.  

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of B.Sc. in Psychology, Psychiatric Nurse, and any related Counseling or Psychological course. 
• At least 2 years’ work experience in implementing mental health and psychosocial support programming 
• Proven capacity to train, supervise, and coach staff on key MHPSS topics 
• Practical experience on MHPSS community-based approaches. 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. 
• Capacity to work with a team. 
• Capacity to work under pressure. 
• Computer skills in word and excel. 
• Fluent in written and spoken English 

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.