Experience

Friendship Bench Zimbabwe

• Zimbabwe
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Clinical Manager

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  Conducting clinical audit across all Friendship Bench facilitiesProviding recommendations on areas that need improvement.Coming up with creative ways to conduct clinical audit such as mock sessions, review of transcripts and recordings, focus group discussions etc.Providing supervision to subordinatesLiaising with different departments in a bid to enhance the quality of counselling sessions being provided by Friendship bench cadres. Assist in the training of Friendship bench counselors.Raising awareness on mental health related issuesProviding support to subordinates when handling difficult counseling sessions.Conducting casework and group counseling sessionsSupporting colleagues to avoid burn out. Show less

• Implementation Officer

  • Oct 2022 - Feb 2023

  Conducting physical and online counselling servicesSupervised lay health workers providing counselling in clinics and communities. Conducting follow ups on clients after 4 weeks of having a session with a Friendship bench cadre.Raising awareness on mental health through radio interviews and other public engagement activities. Facilitating in the training of lay health workers Providing casework and group therapy.Screening clients for risk of common mental health disorders and severity of suicidal ideation.Collecting and entering data into the Friendship Bench databaseFacilitated various community support groups (CKT groups).Translating, transcribing recorded interviewsAssisted in research related work.Collected data through interviews, focus groups, observations, questionnaires. Show less

• Open liner

  • Jul 2021 - Sep 2022

  Providing online counseling servicesCollecting and entering data into the Friendship bench database.Screening clients for depression and anxiety and other common mental disordersAssisting in research activities through translating, transcribing recorded interviewsCommunity mobilization on mental health related topics.

• Clinical Social Work Intern

  • Jun 2020 - Aug 2021

  Conducting online and physical counseling sessions.Facilitating Therapeutic Groups.Conducting casework and group counseling servicesSensitizing groups and communities on mental health related topics using various platforms such as radio stations, social media platforms etc