Pool of Volunteers - Psychosocial support facilitator

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OBJECTIVE OF THE POSITIONS:

In the framework of its emergency preparedness, HI is looking at identifying a pool of volunteers that are interested and motivated to work in emergency situations. Volunteers will be involved in the identification and the response to rehabilitation needs of people with injuries and disabilities during emergency situations.

5. During Emergency preparedness:

The emergency volunteering members will have the following responsibilities:

• To participate in trainings conducted by HI and other specialized actors in the field of emergency preperdness
• To keep contact with HI or HI partner organizations and to particpate in meetings and refresher trainings on a Quarterly basis

5. During an emergency response and post emergency:

• The volunteers should be committed to the humanitarian asisstance principles : Do no Harm, Persons’ best interest and Child Protection policy, that will be provided in trainings during the emergency prepardness phase

This will be monitored through HI monitoring visits.

The following responsibilities are shared among all the volunteers:

• Intergrate and implement safe identification of cases, basic assessment (need of basic services, medical needs, rehabilitation, etc.), referral and follow up as part of a comprehensive approach
• Document referrals and report them to the appointed team leader (who will be defined during emergency phase)
• Partipate in team meetings
• Awarness raising and dissemination of IEC materials (tailored to the context and needs)
• Identify the main challenges and difficluties faced by people with disability, vulnerable, injured, and isolated people, and report the most urgent needs
• Participate in the specialized technical trainings that HI will conduct according to the context and needs in order to improve the team member’s intervention quality with beneficiaries.
• Respect and implement the quality requirements adopted by HI while working with beneficiaries (training will be provided by HI team)
• Ensure the secrecy and privacy of the information shared by the beneficiaries at all times.
• Uphold the humanitarian principles in daily tasks including the informed consent of the beneficiaries.
• Ensure HI internal standards, guidelines, and policies including safeguarding are respected.

Main responsibilities of the volunteer team leader:

• Compile and share the referral data with HI/or partner organization acoording to the pre-set process with respect of confidentiality

Report to HI or HI partners using the monitoring tools and reporting forms on weekly/monthly basis.

1. Psychosocial support facilitator (PSS):

During the first month of the crisis the psychosocial support facilitator is expected to be committed to the following responsibilities during the emergency response under the acute phase (1st month)

• Provide Psychological First Aid (PFA) for persons affected by the crisis

• Conduct basic assessment to identify key psychological symptoms: Identify alerting reactions, assess psychological symptoms and refer to specialized MHPSS services

• Identify and list existing MHPSS services: Identification of medical and psychological care services for referral of people that require psychiatric care, identify the people most at risk from acts of violence, and identify a secure, accessible location which can accommodate the people requiring safe spaces

• Conduct focus groups as needed: Facilitate the implementation of focus groups of target people requiring safe spaces, in order to identify the types of activities to put into place (therapeutic mediation, games, recreational activities, micro-projects, etc.) and set up accessible activities (purchase equipment, delegate tasks and responsibilities)

Requirments:

• Intensive training in Psychosocial Support
• Previous experience working with Non-governmental organizations in emergency or/and development context would be an asset
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team
• Autonomy in work
• Ability to respect deadline and work under pressure
• Interested and motivated to work during crisis
• Basic Microsoft office and Internet use.
• Work languages are English and Arabic.