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SOCIAL WORKER

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conducting social assessments, identifying the social support needs of patients/survivors, including legal, protection, shelter/housing, financial/vocational, food security, and access to medical and psychosocial support services beyond the project intervention scope.
• Supporting the provision of comprehensive care to patients and their families, by actively coordinating their work with the other members of the MSF multidisciplinary team (eg. medical, MHPSS) and linking with multi-sectoral services such as protection, safety, security, legal, justice, education, and livelihood.
• Providing direct social support based on social assessments and facilitating referrals to evaluated external re-sources. Provide systematic follow up care regarding attendance of clinical appointments, and following up on referrals made to relevant multi-sectoral services aimed at improving the quality of life of patients/survivors.
• Participating in the creation and maintenance of any material needed for the activities of social workers, including facilities and equipment in order to ensure continuity.
• Mapping and regular updating of formal and informal support services (incl.existing community resources). Assess quality of existing support services, with identification of gaps and advocacy for an improved culturally appropriate social response.
• Maintaining records, statistics, files, and reports on all social work activities and follow up care either provided by MSF or other support services. Identifying gaps in the available services and with the team prioritizing and developing plans following the objectives of MSF.

SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Identify Basic Needs of Detainees in the Detention Center and report the ones that MSF is able to provide to the Watsan department to ensure distribuiton.
• Gather information and details from target population regarding their experience in DCs (or in the Community when relevant)
• Organize group discussions in the Community and the Primary Health Centers to identify Community Needs.
• Identify and report severe Human Rights violations in the Detention Centres and Disembarkation Points to the Humanitarian Afaairs Department.
• Trace, detect and report to the MFP all ANC/PNC/breastfeeding detainees in DCs
• Identify and report to the MHAM Protection related issues in the Community
• Identify, document and liaise with active Grassroot Organizations related to the Project needs.
• Provide Psychological First Aid for people who have been recently exposed to critical situations.

Application

Interested candidates should submit their applications in English before 18 Mar 2021 with a CV, motivation letter and supporting documents (certificates, diplomas, Degree  etc.) to Médecins Sans Frontières, via E-mail tripoli-jobs@oca.msf.org

The subject line of the email must state ‘your name _ Social Worker Application’ in English in order to be accepted