Job Opportunities at Center for Victims of Torture

Job Description

Position Summary

To provide physiotherapy services in CVT’s Nairobi and by CVT’s mobile unit targeted areas to individuals, groups and communities to recover from physical difficulties resulting from the effects of torture and war trauma. To assist the rehabilitation process by developing and restoring body awareness, self-regulation, and body systems, in particular the neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular and respiratory systems resulting from the effects of torture and/or war trauma under daily supervision of clinicians; provide training to other health professionals and advocate on behalf of CV

Reports to: Physiotherapist/Trainer

Essential functions include [but are not limited to]:

• Provide appropriate physiotherapy assessment to clients throughout their episode of care at CVT in order to continuously evaluate their progress and their changing needs for intervention and establish treatment goals and plan.
• Determine appropriate treatment techniques for war trauma and torture survivors based on solid clinical reasoning. Interventions could include education, exercise therapy and manual therapy in the context of group work or within individual sessions.
• Educate and advise clients and their care takers about prevention and/or self-management of their condition.
• Take responsibility for maintaining professional development by keeping up to date with evidence based practice for managing CVT clients.
• Assist in the daily clinical operations to ensure clients are given appointments in a timely manner, group work activities and room designation is scheduled and coordinated fairly, equipment is shared and organized appropriately and follow other CVT client procedures.
• Maintain up- to- date clinical records and statistical data and ensure that all required documentation is completed and stored in a timely and professional manner.
• Ensure that all work with clients observes CVT’s confidentiality policies and that ethical practices are observed at all times and are in accordance with the WCPT standards.
• Provide interpretation between clients and other CVT staff members and assist with translating written material when needed.
• Ensure the cleanliness of treatment spaces and equipment used with clients as well as maintain a clean, professional appearance.
• Attend all regularly scheduled trainings and meetings necessary for professional development and team coordination and upon request.
• When necessary to accommodate programmatic needs, work after hours or on weekend days when requested.

The physiotherapist’s primary responsibilities working as a multidisciplinary team member include:

• Case manage clients’ interdisciplinary care through regular communication with CVT’s psychosocial counselors (PSCs), Psychosocial Trainers and social workers to best identify clients’ on-going needs.
• Consistently communicate prior to and throughout client sessions with other disciplines to supply and receive relevant information about the background and progress of clients as well as refer those who require other specific medical attention.
• Provide and attend internal trainings to orient new staff and provide on-going interdisciplinary understanding and discussion.
• Recognize and respect boundaries between disciplines and establish regular communication mechanisms to address client urgent and/or on-going concerns.

The Physiotherapists primary responsibilities to develop community awareness, understanding and engagement relating to the rehabilitation needs of individuals who have experienced war trauma and/or torture include:

• Assist with CVTs community outreach and awareness, education, and sensitization campaigns and programs when needed.
• Liaise with CVT PSCs to identify children, teenagers, men, and women whose physical functioning may have been affected by war related experiences and encourage them to approach CVT for support.
• Assist in designing, planning, logistics, implementing and facilitating external training programs for local decision makers, community members and local and international NGO’s, and government/ministry staff on trauma and health issues in order to develop a more supportive environment for people whose physical functioning has been affected by experiences of torture and war trauma.
• Contribute to completing the documentation and reporting of external trainings.
• Assist with developing referral systems and encourage collaboration between local groups and leaders, local and international NGOs, and government ministries.
• Attend interagency meetings to improve service delivery to our client groups and access opportunities to forward CVT’s work.

The Physiotherapists primary responsibilities to promote self-care through support and supervision include:

• Attend regular support, debriefing, case conferences, and/or supervision meetings to ensure information and skill-sharing.

• Set and follow through on a personal self-care schedule to avoid burnout and vicarious traumatization.

• Recognize and seek support when needed from internal and/or external resources to address concerns of secondary trauma in an expedient manner.

• Provide formal feedback to colleagues when requested for on-going performance evaluation and development.

Qualifications:

• University Degree in physiotherapy.
• Higher Diploma in orthopedic manual therapy is preferred.
• 2 to 3 years of relevant experience.
• Computer literacy in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook).
• Excellent Oral and written communication of English and Swahili
• Basic knowledge of French, Somali and Amharic is preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Strong Organizational and analytical skills.
• Experience working in Humanitarian work and ASAL Areas.
• Ability to work independently and as a team member.
• Has current practice license by Physiotherapy council of Kenya.
• Registered by Kenya Society of Physiotherapist

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Job Description

Position Summary

The Center for Victims of Torture is seeking for a Psychosocial Counselor to work with urban refugee population who have suffered torture and war trauma. The position is to assist individuals, groups, and communities to recover from the effects of torture and war trauma, and enable them to rebuild their lives and their communities

Reports to: Psychotherapist Trainer

Responsibilities.

In collaboration with site team and under the supervision of the Psychotherapist Trainer, the Psychosocial Counselor functions includes but are not limited to:

• Render psycho-social services to individuals, groups and communities to assist them to recover from the effects of torture and war trauma.
  • Providing comprehensive psycho-social support to survivors of war trauma and torture who have sought assistance by completing an initial screening and intake assessment; individual and group treatment plans; case management including timely referral, follow-up, and advocacy if necessary; home visits; and follow-up assessments.
  • Coordinating their efforts with Community Workers (CWs) to ensure case management goals are properly achieved.
  • Carrying out individual or family counseling sessions with clients affected by war trauma or torture.
  • Facilitating of group counseling processes, including selection of group members, planning the group process, and group facilitation.
  • Providing interpretation between clients and other CVT staff members when needed.
  • Ensuring that all required documentation is completed in a timely and professional manner.
  • Ensuring that all work with clients is confidential and that ethical practices are observed at all times.
• Develop the community’s awareness, understanding and engagement with the issues relating to mental health, war trauma, and torture.
  • Assist in planning and implementing community mental health, war trauma and torture awareness and education campaigns and programs.
  • Sensitize, problem solve, dialogue, and mediate with the wider population about the issues of the war, torture, trauma and traumatized people in order to raise understanding, develop coping strategies and encourage those who need psycho-social services to approach CVT.
  • Coordinate their efforts with Community Workers (CWs) to ensure community awareness goals are properly achieved.
• Make the CVT services known and accessible to people whose psycho-social functioning has been impaired by their experiences of torture and war trauma.
  • Identify children, teenagers, men, and women whose psycho-social functioning may have been affected by war related experiences and encourage them to approach CVT for support.
  • Develop the referral systems and encourage collaboration between local groups and leaders, CBOs, local and international NGOs, and government ministries.
  • Attend interagency meetings to improve service delivery to our client groups and access opportunities to forward CVT’s work.
  • Ensure that the reporting and documentation of these processes is completed and minutes of meetings are filed.
• Train role players and community members in basic trauma and mental health issues:
  • Assisting in designing, planning, implementing and facilitating training programs for local decision makers, community members and CBOs, local and international NGOs, government/ministry staff and CVT colleagues on trauma and mental health issues in order to develop a more supportive environment for people whose psycho-social functioning has been affected by experiences of torture and war trauma.
  • Contribute to completing the documentation and reporting of external training.
• Promote Self-care through Support and Supervision
  • Attending regular support, debriefing, case conferences, and supervision coaching meetings to ensure information and skill-sharing
  • Attending trainings provided by CVT and other agencies as directed by Psychotherapist-Trainer
  • Implementing Psychotherapist-Trainer recommendations and training in day to day clinical work
  • Providing feedback to Psychotherapist-Trainer on training and supervision.
  • Requesting support from Psychotherapist-Trainer or Counseling Supervisor as needed.
  • Submit files to the Counseling Supervisor or Psychotherapist-Trainer for regular review and support (related to counseling duties)
  • Setting objectives for each week and month, which contribute to achieving the objectives. Plan the activities required to achieve these objectives.
  • Submitting weekly and monthly statistics form and reports (in relation to counseling and supervision responsibilities)
  • Setting and follow through on a personal self-care schedule to avoid burnout and vicarious traumatization.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Psychology, Counseling or related field. Master Degree in similar field will be an added advantage.
• At least 2-3 years in field experience within a Humanitarian NGO/Agency in the same or similar position.
• Extensive experience providing psychotherapy to individuals and groups.
• Understanding of and experience implementing culturally appropriate mental health interventions, including individual, group and community-based approaches for people who have suffered torture and trauma.
• Experience with gender-based violence highly desirable.
• Willingness to work with minorities group highly desired
• Demonstrated flexibility to adapt to changing requirements and needs.
• Skilled at working as a member of a team.
• Working knowledge of English and Swahili
• Experience in working as a counselor or ability to be an empathic counselor
• Experience working in local and regional context and knowledge of local area and community structures desirable.**
• Previous working experience with refugee desired.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to maintain neutrality, impartiality and confidentiality in all aspects of work undertaken.
• Excellent skills in organization, attention to detail and time management (including the ability to meet deadlines) Interest in or commitment to human rights