COUNSELOR EDUCATOR

Thank you so much for your interest to MSF Spain!

 

MSF Spain is looking for a Counselor Educator in Hebron to 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.

We expect you to share our humanitarian values to offer assistance to people based on need and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. In MSF we treat our beneficiaries with dignity, and with respect for their cultural and religious beliefs.

• 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.
• Provide psychoeducation to the targeted population in order to sensitize them over specific MH topics, to reinforce participants strengths, resources and positive coping skills, to promote MH services and to identify cases. 
• Provide individual/family counselling sessions to assess and follow-up with patients in different communities including the mobile clinics. In order to identify mental health symptoms and functionality affected, to prevent the development of MH disorders, to encourage positive coping mechanisms and to refer to the psychologist if it is needed. 
• Provide counselling groups to identify main preoccupations, concerns and life challenges of group members, to encourage open discussion over a theme and to encourage a helping process/mutual support within the group.
• Refer patients with social needs to the social worker.
• Provide Psychological First Aid in case of emergencies and if needed.