General Physician Trained on mhGAP for Mobile Crisis Team

Major Duties and responsibilities:

• Collaborate with 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

• Received the training on mhGAP.
• Ability to conduct clinical assessment as per mhGAP.
• Ability to provide preliminary diagnosis and base prescriptions on the recommended MOPH national guide and list of psychotropic and neurological medications.
• Ability to recognize mental health priority conditions as per the mhGAP.
• Ability to provide empathic, evidence-based, brief, psychological first aid to a culturally diverse population.
• Ability to intervene and de-escalate mental health emergencies.

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

• Mental health in complex emergencies (IASC guidelines, Psychological First Aid, De-escalation of Suicidal Crisis, mhGAP...)
• Biopsychological 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, the policies and practices needed to mitigate them.
• Get the necessary training for the intervention team

Competencies:

• Demonstrates ability to work in multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrates excellent communication, problem, solving, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills
• Demonstrates cultural sensitivity
• Demonstrates ability to adhere  to ethical considerations and principles with regard to work with vulnerable populations.
• Demonstrates a high level of professionalism while  providing services to beneficiaries or working with internal support staff.