Social worker/team leader

Project goal

Improve health outcomes of women and their families and alleviate the stress and psychological suffering of vulnerable people 

Project desciption

Blue Mission is partnering with IDEALS for the Karma project.  Karma (Arabic for “dignity”) is an initiative targeting refugee and host communities in the informal settlements of Lebanon’s South and Mount Lebanon Governorates, providing aid to women and their families. The programme entails outreach to refugee and host populations living in informal settlements in the South and Mount Lebanon to assess the mental and physical health needs of their residents, with an emphasis on women and their children. The outreach staff will perform exams, provide antenatal care to pregnant women and educate the community on a myriad of important subjects; contraceptives and family planning tools will be made available to women who would like to prevent or space out pregnancies. Beneficiaries who need counselling will be referred to the Blue Mission Centre for psychosocial intervention. The project will be staffed by a midwife, psychologists, art and drama therapists, a social worker, administrative staff and community liaisons who will aid in building trust and partnerships with the refugee community, the local Lebanese host population and leaders, be they municipal, informal or religious.

The social worker/team leader will be responsible of assessing children and caregivers in need of CP and GBV case management, as well as coordination outreach and PSS activities with activators.

Main responsibilities and tasks

• Identifying safe spaces to provide community based PSS and outreach activities
• Identifying vulnerable children and caregivers in need of community based PSS
• Ensures that child protection principles are understood, enacted, maintained and enforced
• Coordinating PSS and outreach activities in each of the areas covered by the project
• Planning and organising assessment of needs, PSS and outreach activities under the supervision of the project manager
• Supporting the team in outreach the beneficiaries
• Assessing the children and caregivers in need CP and GBV case management and referred by the activators and midwife for therapy in coordination with the psychologist
• Referring the case in need CP and GBV case management to the psychologist and project manager
• Planning therapy sessions, coordinating with the beneficiaries and following up case management in coordination with the psychologist and project manager
• Delivering sessions to beneficiaries in the field
• Collaborating and cooperating with other team members
• Providing capacity building trainings to the activators in related topics
• Leading the activators’ in their responsibilities and supervising the planning of outreach and PSS activities
• Performing any other duties relating to the nature of the job as directed by the project manager
• Respect patient privacy and confidentiality, and treat them with respect and care
• Ensuring related means of verification and collecting, entering data about beneficiaries and all the needed information in hard and soft copy
• Participate actively in the monitoring and the reporting of PSS and outreach activities and ensure that data entry forms and templates are used correctly and data is managed timely and with high quality (patient files, forms, statistics, outreach reports). 
• Fulfilling other tasks crucial to the project as related to the role of the Social Worker.

Education and professional experience

• Masters Level degree in social work, sociology, psychology, guidance and counseling, social anthropology or any other related degree
• Experience in providing training/coaching
• At least 2 years of experience in related field
• Desirable previous experience with NGO

Required Skills

• Adherence to Blue Mission’s values, policies and protocol and capacity to enforce procedures
• Ability to conduct and coordinate training and participatory assessment
• Leadership skills
• Focused, confident, and observant, reliable and confidential
• Good understanding of the Lebanese humanitarian context, and specifically the South governorate
• Arabic native speaker and very good proficiency in English, written and oral
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of the Pack Office, including Excel and Word
• Respect the time schedule and be at work on time
• Teamwork and cooperation
• Creative, open-minded, flexible, self-learner
• Capacity to work under pressure and manage personal stress levels
• Ability to prioritise clearly and oversee multiple tasks
• Experience in writing reports in English

This recruitment will be open until the post is filled. Only selected candidates will be contacted.