Clinical Lead Shamiri Institute is seeking an energetic, diligent, and self-motivated team player to join its staff as a Clinical Lead on a five-month contract. About the role: Clinical Leads will be part of our Shamiri Program —a youth-led, youth-oriented mental health care program and delivery system that integrates two essential elements:? 1) a rigorously tested evidence-based mental health intervention (the Shamiri, or "Thrive!" in Kiswahili, intervention) that includes simple, empirically supported psychological elements, uses stigma-free, culturally appropriate content, and 2) dissemination in secondary schools by youths trained as lay-providers and integration into a three-tier mental health care model. The Clinical Lead ensures that every student receiving individual clinical psychosocial support services is provided with the highest quality of ethical care possible. The Clinical Lead provides clinical supervisors with supervision services, provides psychosocial support to high-risk students, and collaborates with other care providers to ensure students receive the care they need. Roles and responsibilities: Clinical supervision Provide clinical supervisors with individual clinical supervision. Facilitate group clinical case supervision sessions as needed. Regularly conduct care provider wellness checks. Implement restorative caregiver wellness solutions. Clinical psychosocial support The first point of referral by clinical supervisors for high-risk cases requiring immediate intervention. Handle high-risk student cases. Take point on managing child welfare/protection case handling. Monitoring and Evaluation Review clinical supervisor practices to ensure treatment quality and integrity. Facilitating in-house clinical case conferences. Ensuring caregiver practices meet ethical and organizational standards. Collaboration and Advocacy Foster relationships with local care providers to ensure students receive needed support. Oversee internal and external referrals. Oversee and approve all clinical case reporting and briefings provided to outside parties, e.g., schools. Liaison Provide necessary reports to the Clinical Operation team. Provide clinical training needs reports to the Clinical Operations team. Provide supervision reports to the Clinical Operations team. Requirements: At least an undergraduate degree in psychology, counselling psychology, or social work; a master's qualification is preferable but not required. Minimum of four years of relevant continuous working experience providing counselling/psychotherapy to adolescents. Experience supervising care providers in a mental healthcare setting. Experience working with adolescents in a counselling/psychotherapy setting. Registration with a professional accreditation body e.g., KCPA. Experience in a leadership/team management role in a caregiving setting. Excellent written communication skills, both writing and speaking. Excellent interpersonal skills, able to collaborate with others; a positive team player with a strong work ethic and passion for helping others. Application Information: Successful candidates will be engaged on a 5-month contract from May 2024 with possibility of renewal. Current Shamiri Supervisors will not be considered for the role. All Clinical Leads will be paid KES 50,000 per month during this duration. Interested candidates should apply through the Shamiri Institute Careers portal. NO EMAIL APPLICATIONS. If you have any questions, please email Sheldon (******). About Shamiri Institute We are a youth-led organization shaping the future of mental health by making it affordable for all, personalized to an individual's needs and circumstances, and integrated within existing caregiving systems and community life. This will help to build a future where young people can thrive across the African continent. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Shamiri was founded in 2018 at Harvard University by award-winning Kenyan entrepreneur and community – mobilizer Tom Osborn and rising global mental health researcher Katherine Venturo-Conerly. Since our founding in 2018, we have worked with over 10,000 youths in secondary schools across Kenya. Through our work, young people have experienced a 40% improvement in mental health and well-being, a 14% improvement in social relations, and a 3% improvement in academic grades. Watch this TED talk for more information about our work. Powered by JazzHR
