Psychiatrist for Mobile Crisis Team

Major duties and responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary mobile team to intervene during emergency mental health crisis through a 24/7 mobile unit
• Assess the situation of the person in crisis and provide appropriate care/support to persons in mental health emergencies while avoiding unnecessary law enforcement involvement, ED use and hospitalization.
• Prescribe and/or oversee the administration of appropriate medications (when needed as per assessment) during mental health emergency dispatches 
• Crisis planning and follow-up.

Administrative Support:

• Act as liaison between Nurses, Patients and/or Hospitals.
• Complete reports per emergency

 General Skills:

•   Required professional skills and knowledge: Assessment and Psychotherapy skills:
• Mastery of the psychiatric assessment and usage of ICD 10/ ICD 11 terminology.
• Mastery of Pharmacology and willingness to base prescriptions on the recommended MOPH national guide and list of psychotropic and neurological medications.
• Ability to conduct thorough clinical assessments and clear case formulation
• Ability to recognize mental health priority conditions as per the mhGAP
• Ability to use standardized assessment tools
• Ability to provide empathic, evidence-based, brief, psychological first aid to a culturally diverse population.
• Ability to intervene and de-escalate mental health emergencies and suicidal crises.

 Skilled in or willing to build their capacity and knowledge in:

• Mental health in complex emergencies (IASC guidelines, Psychological First Aid, mhGAP…)
• Biopsychosocial model in mental health
• Community-based approach in mental health
• Human rights-based approach in mental health
• Knowledge about the predictable stresses of humanitarian aid work and the policies and practices needed to mitigate them
• Get the necessary training for the intervention team

 Competencies:

• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team
• Calm and patient person
• Excellent communication, problem solving, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills
• Cultural sensitivity
• Ability to adhere to ethical considerations and principles with regard to work with vulnerable populations
• Demonstrate a high level of professionalism while providing services to beneficiaries or working with internal support staff.