Job Type: Full time
Roles and Responsibilities
Clinical
- Assess mental health issues in the community, help meet psychosocial needs of clients and their caregivers affected by mental health conditions.
- Promote early recognition of signs and symptoms and facilitate early treatment for people at-risk.
- Facilitate navigation of Community and Mental Health Services and to link people affected by mental health issues and their family members to relevant services.
- Provide appropriate counselling interventions to people affected by mental health issues and their family members.
Programme
Education and Community Outreach
- Assist in organising, coordinating and setting up public education and community outreach events.
- Coordinate or provide mental health screening and attend to enquiries at events and intervene if necessary
- Facilitate small group sessions for psychoeducation or psychosocial learning
Care Coordination
- Provide Care Coordination (assessment, emotional support and counselling, psycho-education, referral, follow-up and organise case conference, etc.)
Referral Sources and Community Partners
- Network and engage partnership with community agencies
- Manage relations with referral sources and community partners
- Plan, obtain, collate and analyse feedback from community partners
Administration
Public Education and Community Outreach
- Plan, obtain, collate, analyse and respond to enquiries and mental health screening forms, and intervene if necessary
Care Coordination Service
- Maintain case files and ensure all records, contacts with client, care plan and outcome of clients are properly maintained.
- Submit statistics regularly
- Plan, obtain, collate and analyse feedback from clients/family members
Management and supervision related
- Attend all relevant department and agency meetings
- Attend regular staff training and development meetings
Provide Social Report for Non-Straightforward Cases for Medifund application
Any other tasks assigned by supervisor
Requirements
- Bachelor degree in Psychology, Counselling or Social Work;
- 2 to 3 years of relevant experience;
- Strong relational skills, high adaptability, independent, able to build rapport quickly with distressed people, able to work in physically demanding conditions, good networking skills.