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Job description
World Gospel Outreach is looking for the right person to join our team as the Children’s Psychologist at Rancho Ebenezer near Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The Children’s Psychologist at the Ranch will conduct psychological testing, leading to diagnoses, analysis, and treatment of psychological disturbances. The psychologist must be able to conduct clinical sessions independently with the children and youth at the Ranch. In addition, the psychologist will provide support by conducting clinical trainings and meetings with Ranch personnel to increase their knowledge of psychological concepts. The psychologist will also teach effective and research-based strategies to use in order to maintain emotional, psychological, and physical well-being of the children and youth.
The essential requirements and responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:
Essential/Key Responsibilities include:
● Conducting psychological tests for each individual child, providing diagnoses and treatment suggestions as necessary
● Perform regular checkups for the children at the Ranch, keeping documentation of all progress
● Report any critical findings to the Children’s Services Manager, along with any other staff (caregivers, ranch director, social workers, teachers, parents, mentor parents, etc.)
● Be available outside of regular work hours in case of emergencies
● Follow existing procedures and implement new ones to create effective systems
● Stay up to date with treatments, therapy and educational tools related to mental health and childhood development
● Communicate well with supervisors, peers, coworkers, children, doctors, etc.
● Provide spiritual guidance for children when applicable
● Maintain status as a full-time fundraising missionary
● Pursue personal spiritual growth
Required Skills/Abilities include:
● Be a born again believer in Jesus Christ
● Aware of and sensitive to trauma backgrounds and home environments that many of the children come from
● Good organizational skills, to be used in documenting the needs and progress of the children
● Good communication skills
● Bi-lingual, speaking both Spanish and English fluently, or willing to learn
● Knowledge of cross-cultural communication
● Knowledge of modern psychology practices, treatments and systems
Education, Experience & Other
● Be a U.S. citizen
● Master’s degree or higher in psychology
● Experience working as a psychologist in a professional setting
● Degree or experience in child development, education or related field
● Experience in working with children, especially those with a traumatic background
● Valid psychology license (if applicable)
About World Gospel Outreach, Inc.
World Gospel Outreach (WGO) is a protestant, non-denominational, evangelical church ministry founded in the United States and doing ministry in Honduras and Belize. Our Belizean and Honduran staff, our full-time missionaries and our North American teams are comprised of people representing many denominational backgrounds. While there may be some doctrinal differences, we choose to lay those differences aside. What we will not compromise on are the essential truths of the Person and Work of Jesus Christ as revealed in Scripture. We choose to unite around and unreservedly adhere to these truths. We ask all who come to serve in submission to these same truths.
Our vision is “Impacting the faith of Christ followers through serving and evangelizing children and the poor.” We are driven to pursue this vision because of three fundamental Biblical mandates:
- To care for the poor, especially the widows and orphans (James 1:27).
- To be fishers of men and to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the lost (Matthew 4:19).
- To be accountable before God for how we meet the needs of others (Matthew 25:31-46)
For more on our beliefs and how we accomplish our vision, please visit Beliefs — World Gospel Outreach (wgoreach.org)