Job Detail

HealthNet TPO is a Netherlands based not for profit, non-governmental organization founded on the principle that access to affordable quality health care is a basic human right. HealthNet TPO works with interdisciplinary professionals to develop and implement innovative, culturally appropriate, evidence based public health interventions with a focus on: innovative development of health systems, mental health and  psychosocial care, long and short term training of health workers, control of communicable diseases (including malaria), and health financing schemes. HealthNet TPO offers ground-breaking and unconventional solutions that foster self-reliance and promote sustainable health care that is accessible to all.   HealthNet TPO in Afghanistan aims to improve the health status of the people in Afghanistan by supporting the local communities and the Government of Afghanistan in the development of a sustainable health care system.  HealthNet TPO is working in Afghanistan since 1994, implementing integrated health projects managed mainly by national staff and supported technically by expatriate staff from the headquarter office. HealthNet TPO Afghanistan is providing Primary Health Care, Mental Health and psychosocial services, fighting malaria and supporting Mother & Child Health Care in terms of providing training for Community Midwifes and to conduct operation research. Health Net TPO is currently implementing projects in 22 provinces and the major program it implements are Malaria Control program, BPHS/EPHS, C-IMCI , CME, CHNE, public private partnership, nutrition and Mental Health and Psychosocial program through a community system strengthening approach. 

• Maintain supportive supervision of the MHPSS units according the supervision plan.
• Provision of on-job training-couching for psychosocial counselors during supervision.
• To know the use of checklist and use it appropriately. 
• Ensure of the psychosocial counselors fill in carefully and correctly register, patient files and reporting documents.
• Technical documented supervision of field staff and activity implementation, including MHPSS case management, individual sessions and support groups activities.
• regular case file audit and check quality and consistency of work, ensuring that all decisions made to support the client are recorded on case files.
• Analyze supervision findings and sharing feedbacks with supervised MHPSS units and regular tracking of shared feedback with the staff of MHPSS units.
• Ensuring improvement in the performance of MHPSS unit’s staff after the implementation of each supportive supervision.
• Regular and timely reporting of the performed supervisions.

Referrals and Case Management

• Ensuring the existence of a responsive referral system between the community, MHPSS units and advanced PSS providers.
• Organization of regular team case management meeting, and the facilitation of case conference meeting when needed
• Reviews/analyses caseload trends in order to inform programming
• Ensures that decisions are appropriately recorded on case files

Management of the emergencies

• Manages-in cooperation of the PM-the mental health emergencies after psychosocial counselor/psychologists working hours, in line with the MHPSS emergency plan and reports to the PM.

Human Resources and Capacity Building

• Reviews staff caseload and ensures the staff wellbeing;
• Participate in the recruitment process, evaluate CVs, interviews, and complete all reports related to the recruitment process.
• Act according to the policy and regulations of HealthNet TPO.
• Be committed to the tasks assigned, accountable for the performance and outcomes; belief in development and improvements and willing to learn more.
• Provide training material for planned trainings.
• Develop and lead counselling skills training for providers and relevant staff to enable them to be better placed to provide mental health and psychosocial support to our clients and colleagues.
• Conducting training sessions according to plan and post training follow up
• Consider appropriate training methodology during facilitation for better understanding of participants.

Documentation and Reporting

• Submits monthly supervision reports to PM, highlighting progresses, achievements, challenges;
• Review the reports requested from the psychosocial counselors.
• Support data entry on the project database
• Proactivity on proposing different possible solution to adapt and improve the activities
• Ensuring the safety and confidentiality of client files in the MHPSS units.
• To do and follow up any task given by line managers.
• Cooperate with provincial focal points in weekly and monthly base data collection from the field.