Mental Health Manager /Psychologist – MSF عودة إلى الفرص

MSF is an international, medical humanitarian organization working in more than 71 countries around the world. Our medical teams act fast to save people’s lives in conflict zones, natural disasters and epidemics. We go where we are needed most.

 For the running of our different operations all over the world, we are mainly looking for Psychologists to provide psychological support to patients according to MSF principles and protocols in order to improve the patients’ mental health.

Job Identification:

Job Title: Mental Health Manager /Psychologist

Employer: Médecins sans Frontiers / Doctors without Borders

Type of contract: TBC

Responsibilities:

• Achieve mental health assessment of the community and implement a strategy plan for treatment for the mental health activities and its budgets as per MSF standards.
• Ensure managing, training and supervising the mental health team.
• Provide mental healthcare for an entire hospital/project.
• Map the details of existing mental health services, including other NGOs, community groups and government health services to work in collaboration with them in order to offer the adequate mental health care.
• Write monthly reports according to guidelines and ensure accurate data collection.
• Report problematic situations and cases with the Medical Coordinator to help with decision making and problem resolution.
• Monitor and evaluate culturally appropriate psycho-social interventions.
• Organize therapeutic groups and psycho-educational activities.
• Ensure the implementation of MSF standard mental health protocols & procedures.
• Organizing the referral of patients to the appropriate local structures.