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Responsibility 1: Provide mental health and psychosocial care and follow up to beneficiaries

• Identify, through outreach, beneficiaries’ psychosocial needs (disabilities and vulnerabilities) in close relation with the beneficiaries and their caregivers

• Identify all protection risks at individuals and familial level refer all cases requiring specialized mental health care and/or complementary individual psychosocial support to the appropriate service(s) , including the psychologist, in coordination with the MHPSS Specialist.

• Ensure a qualitative follow up of the beneficiaries and document the follow up according to the monitoring plan

• Conduct awareness-raising sessions on MHPSS topics at the community level

• Organize and facilitate informal support sessions, while identifying and referring persons in need of more formal/structured support Organize and lead recreational and social activities promoting recovery and integration of children and persons with disability

Responsibility 2: In collaboration with the Rehabilitation Team, support in organizing (structured/formal) group sessions and when needed

• In collaboration with the team, identify the beneficiaries and the families/caregivers who could benefit from structured/formal support group sessions provided by the psychologist

• According to the needs identified and the internal referral received, organise the different group sessions according to the integrated approach

• With the support and advices of the MHPSS Specialist, define the objectives of the group sessions and the relevant participants

• Conduct the different psychosocial group activities, adapted and appropriate to each one’s specific needs and capacities.

• Animate the group session in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team as needed

• Among the beneficiaries, identify people (peer) who could support the organization of group sessions

• Encourage participation of peers in the group session

Responsibility 3: Report data on group activities, follow-up on individual / family cases and organize the daily and weekly activities

• Ensure a daily quantitative and qualitative reporting through the tools (assessment form, follow up form, discharger and monitoring form, groups report) and system in place

• Organization of the weekly plan within the multidisciplinary team, with the support of project supervisor

• Participate in team meetings

• Any other reports to be made upon line manager request

Responsibility 4: Participate in the analysis and reporting of global issues in the refugee population, with a focus on psychosocial and psychological issues

• In formal and informal meetings with the team, participate to a qualitative analysis of the different kinds of issues, at individual, familial and community level

• Participate to monthly reporting using the tools in place and ensure to inclusion of all-important issues and points of attention

• Contribute to the production of case study, collect testimonies to provide evidence of intervention and input in reporting to the PM and MHPSS Specialist.

Responsibility 5: Emergency preparedness and response

• Contributes to the program’s emergency preparedness actions and, during an emergency, adapts his/her work modality to contribute to HI’s effective humanitarian response.

Responsibility 6: Respect of HI identity, values, rules and policies

• Know, understand, apply and respect HI code of conduct and ethics, HI mandate and values, HI rules and operating procedure, HI policies (child protection policy, policy and mechanism for the

• prevention of and fight against bribery, the protection of beneficiaries from sexual exploitation and abuse policy) and make sure they are known, understood, applied and respected by team

• Know, understand, apply and respect HI security rules and make sure they are known, understood and applied by team.