Requirements
• Master’s degree in Psychology (Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology
• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology or Counselling with at least one supervised clinical internship in a mental health setting.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in psychological counselling, psychotherapy and or psychoeducation essential.
• Additional certification, training and or experience in a broad range of related fields, such as alcohol/substance abuse, stress management, psychosomatic disease, behavioral problems, psychosocial programming would be an asset.
• Develop and implement a wellbeing and stress management plan for our clients.
• Perform an ongoing assessment and monitor the determinants of wellbeing and stress for our clients.
• Provide on demand group counselling sessions for client’s board of directors; addressing their needs.
• Provide monthly group counselling sessions to our client Divisions and/or Units; addressing the needs of the different teams.
• Implement preventive, mitigating and stress management group activities with our client’s staff.
• Organize and deliver awareness activities on stress, and stress related issues for our clients.
• Promote, plan, and implement wellbeing group activities for Clients’ staff
• Identify, address, and refer after the 3rd appointmtment all patients identified as needing further
• assistance to an external specialist and follow up on critical incident stress cases with our clients.
• Stablish an accredited external network of Psychiatrists and Psychologists who will know Swift Minds’ Client Culture and will manage mental health illnesses.
• Liaise with locally accredited Psychiatric or Psychologist experts and Health provider institutions in Uganda and East Africa for referral and follow up of each case
