Externally Contracted - Staff Psychologists

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in 1971. Today, MSF provides independent, impartial assistance in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, and exclusion from health care or natural disasters.

Main Purpose

Providing psychological support to staff according to MSF principles, standards and procedures, in order to improve the staff well being at work.

Accountabilities

• Carrying out psycho-education sessions to raise awareness amongst staff about mental health and well being at work
• Providing individual psychological support to staff according to MSF protocols in order to improve their mental health condition
• Providing group psycho-social support to staff according to MSF protocols in order to improve their mental health condition
• Provide trainings to staff on various MHPSS topics relevant to increase understanding of staff psychosocial support needs and coping mechanisms
• Mapping the external Mental health resources for referral
• Refer staff to other professionals when needed: staff health responsible, GP, psychotherapist, psychiatrist
• Ensuring that all staff information is kept confidential.
• Collecting and monitoring data about individual and group activities and reporting to PMR/medical coordinator/ staff health responsible
• Collaborating with other staff health profiles according to needs + informing on individual cases needing specialized care.
• When relevant, share global issues of the staff needing attention with coordination team
• Take active part in trainings, supervisions/interventions with other staff support
• positions. Discuss difficulties and problems in counselling with supervisor.

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities

• Provide individual and/or group psychosocial support sessions to current MSF employees as part of the MSF Staff Health and Staff Care policy.
• Provide individual psychosocial support for MSF staff participating in group sessions when need is identified and/or individual session requested by staff according to MSF policy to take place in the service provider's facility or remotely.
• Conduct group sessions according to the needs of MSF.
• Provide to the medical department a detailed plan of each group session.
• Submit a written report or feedback of each group session within 48 hours which must contain a brief description of the session held, Consultants’ feedback and recommendations.
• Able to provide staff requesting appointment within 72hours of request.
• MSF will reimburse sessions cost as per agreed fees. No additional costs (ex. transport, accommodation, or other expenses) would be reimbursed.

Requirements

• Education  
  • Essential: Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology
  • Essential: Registered in LOPSY
  • Essential: License to practice from MoPH
• Experience:
  • Essential: 2 years’ experience, minimum, as a Psychologist
  • Desirable: Previous experience with MSF or other NGO’s in developing countries
• Languages:
  • Essential: Very good oral and written command of Arabic and English
  • Desirable: French
• Knowledge:
  • Desirable: Computer literacy (word, excel and internet)

• Others:
  • Follows MSF guidelines and MSF fees according to the medical policy.
  • Can give our staff appointments within 72 hrs.

Important notice: This is to externally contract psychologists