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Mission and objectives
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Context
Stress Counsellors actively monitor stressors affecting UN staff, identify emerging trends, and customize psychosocial support initiatives to enhance overall wellbeing.
Their work is closely coordinated with local UN medical doctors, Regional Security Advisors, the HQ Medical Service Division, HR Officers, counsellors from other UN agencies, and UN leadership at all levels to ensure a comprehensive and unified approach to staff mental health and resilience.
Their work is closely coordinated with local UN medical doctors, Regional Security Advisors, the HQ Medical Service Division, HR Officers, counsellors from other UN agencies, and UN leadership at all levels to ensure a comprehensive and unified approach to staff mental health and resilience.
Task description
1. Staff Wellbeing Support:
• Develop and implement a stress prevention and management plan applicable to all UN agencies in the country.
• Provide individual and group stress management and critical incident counselling sessions to staff and dependents as needed.
• Plan and facilitate preventative stress management training on various stress-related issues for UN personnel in the country and circulate useful reading resources related to stress.
• Perform ongoing psychosocial needs assessments and monitor the determinants of stress in UN personnel, including activities such as data collection, analysis, resource mapping, and coordinating collective psychosocial capacity across UN agencies and partners.
2. Crisis Response and Follow-Up
• Assist in establishing the Critical Incident Stress Intervention Cells (CISICs) , including selecting Peer Helpers and Family Focal Points; facilitating peer helper training sessions (jointly with the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS ) Critical Incident Stress Management Service (CISMS)); coordinating and following up on all relevant activities.
• Identify, address, and follow up on high-stress cases and critical incident stress cases among UN personnel and dependents in the country.
3. Management and Peer Support Coordination:
• Advise UN management on stress mitigation strategies and activities.
• Collaborate with UN managers, agency counsellors, medical doctors, local experts, and institutions on psychosocial issues to establish a network of professionals ready to support and intervene when needed.
• Coordinate the Peer Support Personnel Network, including supervision and activity monitoring.
• Liaise with the existing local Staff Association to advocate for the organization of welfare activities for UN personnel.
4. Field Support and Collaboration:
• Be willing to visit and travel regularly to UN Offices/Sub Offices in the country to implement preventative stress management training activities and offer technical consultations when needed.
• Under the guidance of the CISMS Regional Stress Counsellor, coordinate all critical incident stress management activities with relevant stakeholders, including UN staff counsellors in the country and neighboring countries, Peer Helpers, Family Focal Points, and Mental Health Professionals.
5. Reporting and Confidential Data Management:
• Maintain confidential records on the CISMS Integrated Data Management (IDM ) platform and analyze trends.
• Provide monthly reports to the Chief Security Adviser with copies to the Regional Stress Counsellor at CISMS on all activities.
• Develop and implement a stress prevention and management plan applicable to all UN agencies in the country.
• Provide individual and group stress management and critical incident counselling sessions to staff and dependents as needed.
• Plan and facilitate preventative stress management training on various stress-related issues for UN personnel in the country and circulate useful reading resources related to stress.
• Perform ongoing psychosocial needs assessments and monitor the determinants of stress in UN personnel, including activities such as data collection, analysis, resource mapping, and coordinating collective psychosocial capacity across UN agencies and partners.
2. Crisis Response and Follow-Up
• Assist in establishing the Critical Incident Stress Intervention Cells (CISICs) , including selecting Peer Helpers and Family Focal Points; facilitating peer helper training sessions (jointly with the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS ) Critical Incident Stress Management Service (CISMS)); coordinating and following up on all relevant activities.
• Identify, address, and follow up on high-stress cases and critical incident stress cases among UN personnel and dependents in the country.
3. Management and Peer Support Coordination:
• Advise UN management on stress mitigation strategies and activities.
• Collaborate with UN managers, agency counsellors, medical doctors, local experts, and institutions on psychosocial issues to establish a network of professionals ready to support and intervene when needed.
• Coordinate the Peer Support Personnel Network, including supervision and activity monitoring.
• Liaise with the existing local Staff Association to advocate for the organization of welfare activities for UN personnel.
4. Field Support and Collaboration:
• Be willing to visit and travel regularly to UN Offices/Sub Offices in the country to implement preventative stress management training activities and offer technical consultations when needed.
• Under the guidance of the CISMS Regional Stress Counsellor, coordinate all critical incident stress management activities with relevant stakeholders, including UN staff counsellors in the country and neighboring countries, Peer Helpers, Family Focal Points, and Mental Health Professionals.
5. Reporting and Confidential Data Management:
• Maintain confidential records on the CISMS Integrated Data Management (IDM ) platform and analyze trends.
• Provide monthly reports to the Chief Security Adviser with copies to the Regional Stress Counsellor at CISMS on all activities.
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