Job Title: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Advisor

Reports to: Senior Health Advisor

Liaises with: Members of the Health Unit, HR, Overseas Staff, Dublin Staff

Job location: Dublin or London with up to 20% overseas travel

Pay Band: Dublin € 51,402 - € 60,472 London £40,489 - £44,751

 Contract: Full-time/ Part-time pro rata/ 2 year Contract

                  Based in Dublin or London office (currently Hybrid working in place)

Job Purpose:                  

The Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Advisor is a newly created strategic role within the Health Support Unit. This role will have a global remit and will deal with all Concern Worldwide staff. The majority of the role will involve organising and delivering wellbeing supports and training for all staff groups across Concern. A passion for providing mental health support, along with an ability to identify the exact support needed is key for this role. In addition to providing mental health and psychosocial support, a small percentage of this role will be involved in providing day-to-day support alongside staff occupational health officers.

This role is very collaborative, necessarily liaising with Head Office colleagues, external providers, senior management, trainers, consultants and overseas fields.

In addition, the incumbent will be responsible for establishing professional external support systems for staff where a strong knowledge and ability to identify and source mental health support providers is required.

This is an exciting opportunity for a mental health professional to develop new methods of support and improve on existing procedures already in place in Concern Worldwide.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provision of trauma informed support to events within the organisation by identifying and organising the relevant mental health support needed for individuals and travelling to the location as required;
• Providing individual and small group support and signposting in cases of trauma, incident or stress related illness;
• Liaise with current service providers;
• Organize and facilitate remote and face to face training for staff in the areas of mental health, trauma informed support and wellbeing in our countries of operation;
• Source external mental health and psychosocial resources and providers in our countries of operation;
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement through the compilation of reports and after action learnings to improve on Concern's responses to stress, trauma and critical incidents;
• Act as a key contributor in the development of an organizational mental health strategy and implementation plan;
• As part of the Health Unit, identify and develop appropriate psychological supports for various groups of staff across the organization;
• Keep up to date with current relevant research in the area of mental health and wellbeing, ensuring that this learning is shared within the team and is reflected in our work;
• Recommend and adopt new ways of working, creating policy documents where necessary for the organisation;
• Develop networks within the sector in the area of mental health provision and support;
• Accept, advance and pursue any new objectives or responsibilities that may be assigned by the Senior Health Advisor;
• Undertake specific projects as required;
• Assist the staff occupational health officers on a limited but regular basis;
• Provide cover for the Concern Emergency phone on a rota basis;
• At all times act within your scope of professional practice;
• Manage and maintain staff files;
• Any other duties as required.

Essential experience and background:

• Qualification in psychology or counselling or mental health;
• Minimum 5 years' experience in mental health and wellbeing arena;
• Experience delivering and coordinating wellbeing programmes and/ or trauma support;
• Experience in policy or report writing;
• Group facilitation and training skills.

Desirable:

• Oral and written French language skills desirable;
• Experience working in the sector overseas.

All applications should be submitted through our website at https://jobs.concern.net by the closing date. CV should be no more than 4 pages in length.

Candidates must hold a valid work visa for Ireland at the time of application. 

Concern Worldwide encourages all qualified candidates, irrespective of gender, ethnicity and origin, disability, political beliefs, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status to apply to become a part of the organization. Concern is against all forms of discrimination and unequal power relations, and is committed to promoting equality. 

Concern has an organizational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy accessible here. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organization, and the standards of behavior expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organization to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern's core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking. 

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Concern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world's poorest countries.