Psychologist - Republished

Accountabilities:

• Carrying out assessment of mental health needs of patients, identifying and measuring Mental Health symptoms, completing case formulations and developing a treatment plan according to patient’s individual needs
• Actively participating as part of an interdisciplinary team, collaborating with medical/ non-medical staff as needed to support the patients mental health and psychosocial needs 
• Informing the patient and his/her caregivers about the presenting symptoms/ MH disorder and possible outcomes of both receiving and not receiving MH intervention
• Referring patients to other health, protection or psychosocial professionals whenever necessary, in order to provide the most appropriate treatment and improve the patient's condition or life circumstances
• Implementing the Sexual Violence (SV) protocol, identifying possible victims of SGBV and maintaining/ ensuring bidirectional referral with the medical team so that they receive the necessary treatment.
• Providing supportive counseling sessions (individual, family, group) according to patients needs presenting with mild, moderate, severe mental health symptoms according to MSF protocols through evidence based approaches in order to improve their mental health conditions
• Assisting and training staff members internal/ external of MSF whenever necessary in order to enhance the scope of MHPSS activities.
• Ensure timely documentation filing, and monitoring of sessions, referrals and patient symptoms according to MSF standards and protocols  
• Participate in weekly/biweekly clinical supervision – discussing patient cases with MH supervisor in order to increase quality of clinical practice , discuss any emergency or protection concerns, countertransference, and inform the supervisor about any current or potential issues that may arise related to patients’ treatment and safety in order to provide the best possible solution
• Ensuring that all patient information is kept confidential and informed consent is always discussed received before proceeding with intervention
• Actively promote the availability of MSF MHPSS services with medical and non-medical MSF staff, beneficiaries, communities and surrounding (I)NGOs;  conduct group work, awareness sessions, trainings and other activities under the supervision of the MH supervisor/ MH activity manager/ project medical referent as needed
• Personal and team development and team support: Actively seeks for and gives support to other team members concerning cases and gap filling and participates in trainings planned. Actively participates in meetings by bringing up challenges and possible solutions and by participating in discussions in team meetings
• Being open to provide psychological support and counseling to a different range of age groups and nationalities in different health facilities of MSF.

Education:

• Bachelor degree in counseling, psychology, teaching or related fields
• Master's degree in Clinical Psychology required

Experience:

• 0- 2 years’ experience as a Clinical Psychologist
• Demonstrated interest and passion in working with vulnerable persons in low resource settings
• Desirable previous experience with MSF or other NGO’s in resource limited settings
• Desirable previous experience working with children, youth and families
• Desirable previous experience in evidenced based approaches for treatment of depression, anxiety, trauma and/or violence
• In order to be recruited, the candidate must have or prove being in process of registration with the Ministry of Public Health, Lebanon as a liscensed psychologist