Therapist
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Health/Medical, Social Work
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $540
Hours of work: 40 hours/week (Travel and overnight stays in provinces 8-15 days/month)
Job Purpose and Brief:
Job Purpose: To provide therapeutic support to survivors and lead them positively through trauma and achieve their improvement in emotional well-being.
Job Brief: Therapists focus on addressing the emotional needs of survivors within a trauma-informed care approach. They are responsible for assessing survivors and their families in this area and providing a range of therapeutic interventions to support healing and recovery. This involves working closely with the direct care team and case managers to improve survivors’ well-being. This role is to promote strong trauma-informed care practices among all staff and contribute to the project achievement goal through coordination, work plans, and reporting.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Overseeing the cases assigned by the therapy supervisor and keeping the cases accountable with their progress and update regularly, following the internal monitoring guide.
- Data tracking is well prepared and noted weekly for report purposes.
- Update the highlight, challenge, and solution and propose changes during the team meeting and in line with Terms of Reference (ToR) in Ratanak.
- Facilitate the assigned case by providing the survivors' needs through the treatment plan and processing their emotional transformation and traumatized journey.
- Ensure that all cases are identified by their symptoms via the psycho-assessment and consent before the early plan begins.
- Provide therapy treatment as individual, group, and family support services regularly in line with the internal guidelines, procedures, and model of practice.
- Lead the case conference to evaluate the case progress and update the relevant team and seek final support from line management.
- Ensure that the implementation of adjustments to procedures and regulations is applied accordingly and approved.
- Coordinate joint planning, travelling and case monitoring according to the agreed action plan.
- Open to accepting any task assigned by line management within the project SCOP.
- Coordinate and support the project team for the best interest of survivors.
- Aware of weekend tasks that are required once a month for the therapy session and support the team.
- Coordinate and deliver psycho-assessments of survivors' needs and assessments of family/ community situations with respect to emotional and social issues.
- Ensure that planned interventions involving other staff or agencies are carried out, supporting survivors with legal, police, and other meetings as required.
- Actively engage with partner agencies who provide therapeutic services, including coordination meetings and regular updates. Address any gaps in survivor care and services.
- Engage in ongoing personal development to ensure best practice in therapeutic work and management of self and workload.
Benefits:
- 13-month salary
- Indemnity payment
- Health allowance & insurance
- Meals
- Self-care allowance
- Education allowance and more
Expected Profile of Candidates
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, Social Work, Counselling, or a related field.
Work History:
- Experience working with traumatized people and know how to apply the practical counselling tools for 3 years as a minimum
- Experience working with survivors of trafficking for 2 years as a minimum
- Leading group and family therapy with initiative tools for 1 year as a minimum
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
- Relevant professional training or certification in counselling, psychotherapy, or trauma care.
- Experience working under pressure and positively addressing issues
- Experience working with NGOs/Mental Health Clinics.
- Educated in the use of PC and social platforms.
- Psychosocial and emotional assessment and case planning.
- Individual and group counselling/therapy using appropriate therapeutic approaches.
- Strong knowledge of trauma-informed and survivor-centered care.
- Ability to monitor client progress, document case information, and adjust interventions.
- Understanding of safeguarding, confidentiality, professional ethics, and referral processes.
Soft Skills
- Empathy, patience, and active listening.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
- Emotional maturity and professional boundaries.
- Strong teamwork and collaboration.
- Self-awareness, resilience, and willingness to learn.
- Experience and knowledge of trafficking and exploitation issues.
- At least 2 years of active membership in a church community.
- Experience working with survivors in a residential, center, and community setting.
