Psychosocial Counsellor

Position Summary 

The Psychosocial Counsellor will help young refugee and host-community women build the mental wellbeing, confidence and resilience they need to succeed in training, business and work. The role delivers the psychosocial support part of the Angaza program’s entrepreneurship readiness model (Intervention 2(a)), where mental health support is paired with entrepreneurship training. 
The counsellor will conduct individual and group counselling and supervises community para-counsellors. They’ll run sessions on resilience, stress management and wellbeing. The counsellor also refers women to specialist services (GBV response, legal, health) when needed, works with families and communities to support participants, and tracks wellbeing and agency outcomes through regular assessments. 
The role is one of RefuSHE’s main safeguard for the women’s emotional wellbeing, as about 2,000 participants a year will go through the Angaza program in Nairobi. 
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