Careers: Psychologist for Our Mobile Early Intervention Team
Our principles of work make respecting and guaranteeing the rights of children our top priority. We believe that every child, regardless of their physical and mental condition, has opportunities and strengths that should be developed and used when we talk about securing their basic rights and equal access to social, health and educational services, family care and public support.
Today we are looking for a responsible and warm-hearted professional who supports and understands our cause and is willing to fill the position of a Psychologist for the Early Intervention Mobile Team.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
• Participates in the multidisciplinary team of specialists, performing functional-diagnostic examination and analysis of the children’s condition.
• Prepares an individual assessment of needs and an individual support plan for the user.
• Performs psycho-diagnosis of child development with standardized screening and psycho-diagnostic methods.
• Advises parents on questions about their child’s development. Defines the goals of the support and trains the child’s relatives in activities suitable for implementation at home.
• Makes home visits, meetings at the child care facility that the child attends, or field work, as part of the Karin Dom mobile team, provides services in play groups, trainings with parents, etc.
• When a municipal or state institution reports a child at risk (of abandonment or institutionalization) – conducts a “crisis intervention” with the parents and relatives, with the aim of preventing abandonment.
• Maintains contacts with doctors and other health professionals regarding children’s problems, needs and progress.
• Works for the inclusive education of children with special needs and for their social integration.
• Selects appropriate methods and means of impact and therapy.
• Maintains documentation necessary for case work. Participates in the preparation of individual plans and programs, ongoing evaluations, team opinions, exit evaluations and documentation of children.
Job Requirements
• Education – higher education; qualification degree – Bachelor, Specialty – Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Child Psychology, Psychotherapy. A postgraduate qualification in one of the listed fields is an advantage.
• Very good knowledge of the Bulgarian legislation in the fields of health care, education, social activities concerning children and their families.
• General knowledge of medical, social, educational aspects of disability conditions.
• Knowledge of the institutions, services and NGOs in the community and the country.
Experience
• Experience in the field of social services.
• Experience working with children and families
Personal qualities
• Teamwork
• Responsibility – professional attitude to the specific duties of the position, performance of the additional tasks set and their performance in the specific terms
• Communication skills
• Creativity
• Patience and empathy
• Initiative
• Willingness to work in a dynamic environment
• Analytical and decision-making ability
• Experience working with children and parents
• Non-discriminatory attitude
• Good workplace management
• Strive to upgrade professional knowledge and skills
An advantage
• Proficiency in English
WHAT WE OFFER
• Permanent employment contract and pay corresponding with the responsibilities of the position
• Paid leave from 36 to 45 days
• Care through the Health and Wellbeing Program
• Internal tracking system and incentives for good performance
• Trainings to acquire knowledge and skills for leading methods and approaches to support children with special needs and parents
• Package of mobile phone, office computer
• Possibility of trips related to the exchange of experience in the country and abroad according to the organization’s projects
If you recognize yourself as the person for the described position, we will be happy to receive your resume by May 30, 2024 to email: bboncheva@karindom.org
All submitted applications will be reviewed with feedback and an invitation to an initial interview to those candidates who meet our expectations for this responsible position.
