Psychologist – Emergency Response

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.

MSF in Lebanon is currently urgently looking for staff for its Emergency Response with Medical Mobile Units in Beirut, Chouf, Zahle and Bekaa

MSF is committed to achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion within its workforce irrespective of gender, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, culture, religious and ethnic backgrounds. All job applications will be treated in strictest confidence.

Starting date: ASAP

Type of contract: Intervention Fixed Term Contract, upon needs

Updated competitive salary package with benefits including allowances, medical coverage, and 5 weeks of paid leave per year

Place of work: One of the following areas: Beirut, Chouf, Zahle, Bekaa

Salary: 162,890,000 LBP per month (USD 1,820 per month)

Scope of responsibility: MSF

Providing nursing care, treatment and follow-up of patients, according to doctors’ prescriptions, protocols applied in service and universal hygiene standards/precautions, in order to ensure the quality and continuity of care for the targeted population

Specific Accountabilities

• Carrying out evaluation of mental health needs of patients and establishing a diagnosis and a plan of treatment. Informing the patient and his/her relatives about the possible consequences of the illness and the drug treatment to follow and referring patients to other health professionals whenever necessary, in order to provide the most appropriate treatment and improve the patient's condition
• Implementing the Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) protocol, identifying possible victims of SGBV and referring them to the medical team so that they receive the necessary treatment.
• Providing psychological support and psychotherapy sessions (individual, family, group) to patients according to MSF protocols in order to improve their mental health conditions
• Assisting and training staff members and resourceful people  whenever necessary in order to enhance the scope of MH activities. Working in close collaboration with translators in order to ensure appropriate terminology and behavior during sessions
• Collecting statistical and monitoring data about mental health activities
• Informing the supervisor and the medical team about any issues or problems that may arise related to patients’ treatment in order to provide the best possible solution from a medical perspective
• Ensuring that all patient information is kept confidential.

Requirements

Education

• Essential: Master’s degree in psychology from a recognized university
• Essential: Specialization in clinical psychology from a recognized university.
• Essential: Ministry of public health practice license as Psychologist in Lebanon.
• Essential: Valid certificate of registration at the Lebanese order of Psychologists.

Experience

• Essential: At least 2 years of certified work experience in clinical psychology.
• Desirable: Previous experience with MSF or other local and/or international NGOs.

Languages

• Essential: Full professional proficiency using the Arabic and English Language.
• Desirable: Elementary to limited professional proficiency using the French Language.

Knowledge

• Essential: Basic to intermediate computer literacy using MS-office applications (MS-Word, MS-Outlook, MS-Excel).

Competencies  

• Results and Quality Orientation                  L2
• Teamwork and Cooperation                       L2
• Behavioural Flexibility                                  L2
• Commitment to MSF Principles                  L2
• Stress Management                                    L3