Case Manager - Beqaa (Part Time)

Main responsibilities:

• Build the capacities of primary health care centers (PHCC) staff and facilitate the integration of MH in primary health care (PHC).
• Provide awareness sessions on MHPSS topics to the front- liners.
• Provide case management to persons with disabilities’ social needs and ensure they access to suitable services through internal or external referrals
• Promote inclusion mainstreaming in PHCCs and support capacity building efforts from MdM and its partners
• Conduct awareness sessions to patients of the PHCCs shadowing the PHCC staff.
• Design and facilitate support groups on MHPSS topics to people with psychosocial issues
• Networking and mainstreaming with available services in the community.
• Meetings and data reporting

Main responsibilities and activities of the Social Worker can change according to the organization of the work and to the composition of the team.

Main activities:

1. Build the capacities of primary health care centers (PHCC) staff and facilitate the integration of MH in primary health care (PHC) along with inclusion mainstreaming.

• Contribute in the needed assessments to be done 
• Conduct trainings, sensitization and awareness sessions for the PHCC multidisplinary team on several MHPSS topics, case management and awareness raising facilitation
• Provide supervision / shadow the persons trained on the topics mentioned above.
• Support the PHCC staff in the identification of MH cases
• Organize and facilitate awareness sessions at the PHCC level for the persons in the waiting areas, in cooperation with PHCC staff.
• Provide proper case-management (including safe identification, needs assessments, action plan’s design and PSS support), regular follow-up and internal and external referrals for the persons with disabilities’ social needs enrolled in the project.
• Participate in updating the service mapping.
• Support the PHCC staff to safe identify and refer persons when needed, utilizing the referral form
• Support the PHCCs coordinating with hospitals and any other relevant stakeholders
• When needed, participate to case discussions with the multidisciplinary team
• Coordinate with the staff to facilitate mainstreaming of MH and inclusion at PHCC level

2. Community based activities

• Design, organize and facilitate support groups for the community.
• When requested, participate to awareness sessions in ITS/shelters/streets to support outreach workers.
• Participate to relevant sessions on Inclusion organized within Community Support Groups
• Advocate on all MH related issues and/or concerns through events organized by MDM and  the other partners.

3. System strengthening  

• Prepare awareness sessions interactive tools related to different MHPSS and inclusion topics
• Prepare, design and adapt the trainings materials.
• Develop innovative, relevant, adapted and appropriate awareness material with the Community Health team and support them in delivering related messaging;

4. Reporting and meetings

• Report all the activities and data collection, respecting deadlines
• Keep records, statistics and files updated ensuring confidentiality of the data collected
• Participate in internal meetings and individual meetings.
• When required participate in external meetings with key actors, NGO’s/INGO’s.
• When required, participate in network/coordination and case discussion meetings concerning MHPSS and/or inclusion