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  • Posted: Sep 6, 2021
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    Antara Health scales patient-centered health care for everyone by adding AI-assisted health navigation to make the hard parts of healthcare easy for patients and providers. Patients, especially those with chronic ailments, enjoy comprehensive health and financial protection, concierge care coordination, and peace of mind knowing they and their loved ones ...
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    Mental Health Counselor

    We are looking for emotionally sensitive candidates with excellent problem-solving skills who are committed to helping people better their lives. The responsibilities of a counseling psychologist include listening to patients and identifying their core problems, building strong, long-term relationships based on trust, and monitoring patient response to treatment over time, among other duties.

    Counseling psychologists should be expert problem solvers with good diagnostic skills. This requires a highly analytical mindset and the ability to understand people on a psychoanalytic level.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    • Scheduling patient consultations.
    • Assessing patients and identifying their problems.
    • Engaging in discussion with patients and making them feel comfortable.
    • Implementing individualized treatment programs.
    • Undertaking psychometric testing.
    • Evaluating patient responses to treatment over time.
    • Organizing a long-term counseling plan that involves multiple visits.
    • Offering services to all age groups.
    • Offering both one-on-one and group counseling.
    • Keeping a detailed account of patient mental health history.
    • Being patient and building relationships based on trust. 

    KEY DELIVERABLES

    • High quality virtual-first psychological and emotional counseling
    • Screen all beneficiaries
    • Craft personalized management plans for all beneficiaries
    • Maintain beneficiaries’ care management plans, track progress against goals, and highlight concerns or considerations that may need to be taken into account.
    • Routine and effective ongoing care and follow-up through periodic touch points with beneficiaries to ensure that their mental health plan is on track.
    • Beneficiary education
    • Beneficiary empowerment
    • Effective participation as part of the broader clinical team
    • Follow up with partner providers for any critical and necessary information required to manage the beneficiaries’ case well, including care management plans, prescriptions, etc.
    • Maintain a log of any issues that need resolution with regard to operations, feedback on service delivery, concerns raised by beneficiaries, payers and other stakeholders.

    REQUIREMENTS

    • A Degree in psychology. Preferably a Masters or PhD but not required
    • A valid license from Kenya Psychological Association
    • At least 3-5 years of clinical experience
    • Good observational skills and attention to detail.
    • Exceptional interpersonal skills.
    • Excellent written and verbal communication.
    • Empathy and sensitivity when dealing with patients.
    • Highly analytical mindset.
    • Good diagnostic and problem-solving skills.
    • Superior written and oral fluency in Kiswahili and English required. Oral fluency in local languages is important.
    • Comfortable working in a dispersed team.
    • Demonstrated proficiency in computer skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel
    • Superior communication skills, including proven listening skills, and ability to communicate appropriately in a medical setting.
    • Ability and willingness to provide emotional support, encouragement and motivation to beneficiaries
    • Ability to treat beneficiaries and partners with the highest degree of respect and discretion.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Antara Health on www.antarahealth.com to apply

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