Psychological Supervisor at Community Based Sociotherapy Rwanda: (Deadline 30 September 2023)

Psychological Supervisor at Community Based Sociotherapy Rwanda: (Deadline 30 September 2023)

Job announcement 

1 Full-Time Psychological Supervisor

Community Based Sociotherapy (CBS Rwanda)

Starting date: November 2023

Locations:

The CBS Head Office (Based at Kigali) 

Introduction

The organization Center for Community Based Sociotherapy Rwanda (CBS Rwanda) was established to contribute to the psychosocial well-being of people affected by the Genocide against the Tutsi and to strengthen interpersonal reconciliation and social cohesion at the grass-roots level.

The community-based sociotherapy approach uses the group as a therapeutic medium in the establishment of trust, the creation of an open environment for discussion and the formation of peer-support structures. The socio-groups facilitate community members to identify, acknowledge, share, and manage together their everyday psychosocial problems related to the recent history of political violence and its aftermath.

Under the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Rwanda and in collaboration with the Institute for Community Based Sociotherapy (ICBS), CBS Rwanda will be implementing a three-year project “CONNECT”: Connecting for Peace: A scale-up of Community-Based Sociotherapy as an Integrated MHPSS and Peacebuilding Approach in the Great Lakes Region. CBS is implementing the project in Rwanda.

CBS Rwanda is looking for a full-time Psychological Supervisor who will form an integral part of the intervention and will ensure psychological wellbeing of the staff, sociotherapy group facilitators and participants to the sociotherapy groups with specific and severe psychological needs. The staff will put in place a referral system of severe cases of psychological problems observed during the implementation of sociotherapy approach. The staff will report directly to the head of programs and work closely with the executive director, senior researcher and district officers.

Basic responsibilities

• Develop, in conjunction with CBS staff, guidelines for psychological supervision of staff, sociotherapy group facilitators and sociotherapy group;
• Prepare a training manual on basic knowledge of psychological issues and treatment to be used while training sociotherapy group facilitators and staff;
• Train CBS staff members on the knowledge and practice of conducting psychological supervision;
• Develop a psychological supervision plan in collaboration with the head of programs and district officers;
• Provide guidelines on how to mitigate and/or manage countertransference among CBS staff and sociotherapy group facilitators;

• Guide CBS staff on how to support sociotherapy group facilitators in identifying unmet psychological needs among group participants and assist in formulating general guidelines for the design of a referral system which can be instrumental in addressing their needs.
• Identify, in collaboration with the management team and the field teams, individual cases that need a professional follow-up and provide treatment to the sociotherapy group participants identified;
• Develop monitoring strategies to follow up on people suffering of severe trauma and/or other mental health illnesses;
• Advise CBS staff on how to address and support people who are suffering from severe trauma;
• Develop a referral system for cases that need specific professional counselling;
• Follow up on the referral system to monitor and ensure the effectiveness of the referrals done;
• Conduct field visits to evaluate the social environment and family structure of the people under follow up.
• Provide a regular update/report on the psychological support activities within CBS Rwanda.

Profile candidate

Essential skills and qualification

• A bachelor and Master’s degree in psychology, clinical psychology, counselling or any other related field;
• At least five years of experience in the profession of psychological supervision and psycho-trauma healing;
• In-depth knowledge of group therapy approaches;
• Experience in monitoring a team providing psychological intervention;
• Capable to support severe cases of trauma identified in sociotherapy group sessions;
• Capable to train staff on how to do psychological supervision;
• Capable to train sociotherapy group facilitators on how to identify and provide support to people suffering from psychological problems;
• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills;
• Analytical and technical skills and strong knowledge of training facilitation;
• A very sociable person, with strong communication skills;
• Strong English language proficiency and excellent report writing and presentation skills; 

Desirable skills and qualifications

• Experience in group psychotherapy treatment;
• Being familiar with the community based sociotherapy intervention;
• Working knowledge of both Kinyarwanda and French is considered a plus.

Terms of employment

This is a full-time position. The Psychological supervisor is based in Kigali, but the position involves regular field-visits. A Psychological Supervisor to be recruited should be qualified, dynamic, and highly motivated, having high moral character and professional integrity to fill the position. He/she is expected to start the position in November 2023.

How to apply

To apply for this position, please send your motivation letter, CV, academic documents, and two references to: info@cbsrwanda.org no later than the 30^th September 2023. Job interviews will be communicated after pre-selection. Hard copy academic documents will be required after succeeding oral and written test. For more information about CBS Rwanda, you can consult the following website: www.cbsrwanda.org. For direct information, you can call the Executive Director (0788483210) or the Head of Programs (0787493187).

The letter should be addressed to the Executive Director of CBS Rwanda.

Done at Kigali on 29/08/2023.

The management of Community Based Sociotherapy Rwanda