Consultancy to Conduct Clinical Supervision

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Job Description

The IRC has been implementing GBV programming in Hagadera for the last ten years through the two tonged approaches i.e., response and prevention. The IRC has supported hundreds of GBV survivors who voluntarily come to report their incidences and to seek help but carries out diligent sensitization and mobilization activities seeking to prevent all forms of GBV. Through community engagement, IRC hopes to strengthen community-based social and protective structures, to ensure that women and girls enjoy a violence free life where men take a leading role. At agency level, IRC works closely with like-minded organisations to compliment service delivery in meeting the different needs that a GBV survivor presents. Some of these needs include medical care, shelter, security/protection, access to food, legal redress, issues related to children support and maintenance and need for emotional and psychological support. IRC collaborates with key agencies in these sectors. They include UNHCR and DRA (in charge of refugee affairs and protection issues), Lutheran World federation (In charge of education and disability inclusion), Terres Des Hommes (Child protection-psychosocial support), Refugee Consortium of Kenya and Police for legal aid counselling and support of survivors in court.

To expedite this directive, IRC has a team of 30 dedicated GBV community workers and 8 national staff who are the first points of contacts for the survivors. These responders listen to traumatizing stories from survivors every day and provides psychosocial support. This work is quite draining emotionally as the welfare-workers act as sponges absorbing the client’s experiences. They are at risk of vicarious trauma and burn-out. Some of these effects manifest at work through; irritability, poor concentration, interpersonal conflicts, absenteeism, lateness at work and psychosomatic illnesses. Considering that most of the staff are refugees themselves, they identify with most of the client’s experiences having being victims themselves or their significant others. In addition, Dadaab is a highly stressful and complicated context characterized by insecurity incidences and sporadic IED explosions and other militia operations some of which are terrifying. This further affects the humanitarian workers especially the case workers who have to respond to GBV incidents associated with these acts of atrocities. The team bears the burden of constantly debriefing themselves to ensure they remain emotionally stable and not drowned in the client’s world. The aftermath of these secondary trauma experiences is that they are not able to provide quality psychosocial support to survivors and may cause further harm. It is therefore key for staff to be provided with an opportunity to debrief in a safe neutral environment and with the support of a licensed clinical supervisor.

To make certain that staff continue providing quality, timely and comprehensive care to survivors, they need debrief through talk therapy (catharsis) and learn positive ways of coping with/minimizing work related stress. This an ethical requirement that all counsellors go through clinical supervision and debrief.

This will also provide a forum for the partnership to discuss some of the most complex cases with the therapist and share some of the challenges they faced when handling survivors, learn new psychological intervention strategies, and master them for future use, get support on client dynamics and capacity building on new counselling interventions.

This consultancy seeks to assure that clinical supervision and debriefing opportunities are provided to GBV staff to take part in therapeutic processes as part of ongoing care for the caregivers.

1. Objective of the Consultancy

The objective of this consultancy is to engage an experienced clinical therapist to carry out psychological first aid and clinical supervision to WPE staff for 4 days starting 2nd November- 5th November 2022.

The sessions will be held in Diani, and the targeted case workers will be WPE both national and response incentive staff. This is aimed at helping them release work tension, and burn out, improve their interpersonal relationships which will finally promote a healthy working environment, handle personal issues, learn ways on how to handle stress and problems, leading to quality of services offered to the survivors.

Key tasks:

- Engage staff in a therapeutic process through both group and individual counselling and/or debriefing sessions. - Offer support to the case workers in handling difficult client issues or those that present themselves with severe psychological issues. - Equip staff life skills for example stress management strategies, empower them with self-response mechanisms as individuals and collectively as a team as the supervisor may deem appropriate. - Submit a report on feedback given from the team to the Technical Coordinator (TC) and the SMT team on areas that may require technical support to improve the well-being of the staff in relation to their work.

Proposed Outputs:

- Offer counselling sessions in groups and individual sessions as to effectively handle their personal issues, support their peers and the clients. - Help the participants gain sense of self awareness and growth and build an enabling environment for catharsis and support. - Build the capacity of the staff in thematic areas relevant to their day-to-day work

2. Management

- The consultant will report to WPE Technical Coordinator, HR Technical Coordinator, Country Director, Deputy Director of Programs based in Nairobi.

3. Timeframe

- This consultancy period will be for four days 2nd November – 5th November 2022 with 1st November and 6th November 2022 being travel days.

4. Consultants’ responsibilities

- Build an enabling environment for the participants to engage in a therapeutic process and get support. - Guide participants in personal development sessions to allow them to gain some sense of self awareness and growth. - Allow staff to seek individualised support (individual counselling and personal therapy) sessions as appropriate. - Submit report within the agreed timelines. - Give feedback on emerging concerns to the team lead or IRC senior management where possible at the end of every session. - The consultant to meet his medical and other personal expenses during the consultancy - The consultant will pay for their meals during the consultancy

5. IRC responsibilities

- IRC to meets the cost of transport from Nairobi to Mombasa and back depending on available transport. - To provide accommodation for the consultant during their stay in Mombasa. - Pay consultancy fees at a mutually agreed rate and time.

6. Outcomes

- To submit an overall report to the GBV Senior officer within two weeks after the consultancy.

Qualifications

- MA in counseling psychology. - Certificate in clinical supervision from an accredited institution. - At least 3 years training experience in counseling related issues. - Experience working with trauma clients. - Experience in Kenya and/or a refugee-setting, preferred. - Be registered with an accredited counseling body. - Be flexible and tolerant. - Previous experience in providing counseling supervision in refugee setup an added advantage. - Be highly critical to cultural and religious dynamics.

**Standards of Professional Conduct****: The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability and Equality. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others.

Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and allowance.

Kenyan nationals are encouraged to apply. International allowances are not available for this position. Salary and employee benefits are compliant to the Kenyan NGO Sector.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability.

Disclaimer:

Please take note that International Rescue Committee (IRC) does not ask for any fees in connection with its recruitment processes.

Added 1 year ago - Updated 11 months ago - Source: rescue.org