Mental Health Technical Advisor

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

Supervision:

In Collaboration with the Child Protection National Coordinator, the Mental Health advisor will:

• Provide technical support, coaching and training of Mental Health team members according to a set plan to enhance the quality of Mental Health activities, supervision of referrals;
• Conduct regular Mental Health team meetings and/or individual meetings and detailed monitoring of both quality and efficiency of mental health services;
• Promote the professional development of Mental Health staff, assess their training needs and encourage participation on relevant national training opportunities;
• Prepare minutes and action points of monthly Mental Health meetings for sharing with the child Protection coordinator; 
• When needed, meet with the Child Protection area Officers to review the implementation of MH activities;
• Ensure that challenges are addressed and activities’ load is manageable;
• Monitor practices and ensure that Mental Health activities are abiding by the principles and Mouvement Social Internal Operational Procedures;

Implementation:

• Provide advisory to urgent and life threatening cases and when Mental Health Professional/psychotherapist is unsure how to respond;
• Ensure Mental Health staff’s access to material, technical, and logistical support for their services;
• Ensure the implementation of Mental Health activities according to children’s age and situation and according to specific psychotherapeutic ways and methods;
• Ensure that Mental Health Professional/psychotherapist are feeding into the progress reviews for all opened cases along with child and family (when needed and appropriate);
• Ensure that referrals are received exclusively from case workers for cases exhibiting Mental Health symptoms (as by Mouvement Social Internal Operational Procedures);
• Ensure that psychological assessment for high risk children and child survivors is performed by the Mental Health Professional/psychotherapist and interventions according to risk are prioritized;
• Ensure that a therapeutic plan of action that illustrates the approach being used to support the child is well designed;
• Ensure that high effective psychotherapy sessions are conducted and psychological support to families and caregivers of high risk children and child survivors is provided when needed;
• Ensure that training to Mouvement Social field staff on screening and detecting mental health concerns and referrals is provided by trained Mental Health Professional/psychotherapist;
• Contribute to the revision of PSS curricula when needed;

Documentation:

• Ensure that patient data and files are treated in a confidential manner and that the Mental Health services are provided to the highest ethical standards;
• Ensure that Data Protection Protocol and Information Sharing Agreements are in place and staff are trained;
• Ensure thattools and forms are being used and coordinate with Child Protection National Coordinator on need for revisions/ additional tools and forms;
• Conduct regular progress file audits to ensure data protection protocols are being adhered to and cases are being documented regularly;
• Design a patient file that outlines the progress of the therapeutic plan session by session used by the Mental Health Professional/psychotherapist;
• Ensure that Mental Health Professional/psychotherapist is participating in trainings on confidentiality and data protection protocols;
• Ensure all Mental Health Professional/psychotherapist’s actions are documented thoroughly and weekly in the progress file and other forms, including observations, actions taken and discussions held with child and family;

Reporting:

• Report, analyze, and evaluate the Mental Health activities according to the expected standard and deadlines,
• Provide feedback on mental health reports;