Gaza Mental Health Consultant for Local Staff

Due to lack of sufficient applicants, we do repost this call. Please ensure that you have followed properly paperwork required! Otherwise, you cannot process your application.

Please note that this is NOT an employment call. Engagement will be done based on a Service Contract.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent medical humanitarian action-driven organization, providing aid to populations in need, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to the people affected by armed conflicts, without discrimination and regardless of their race, religion, belief or political affiliation (MSF Charter). Within MSF, the Psychosocial Support Unit (PSU) is a team of psychologists dedicated to the support of MSF OCBA staff.

DESCRIPTION

The psychologist / psychiatrist identified by Staff Care Unit will cooperate providing psychosocial support to the teams, either in individual or in group sessions. The local referent will have direct communication and will depend functionally on the Staff Care Unit (psy support), and hierarchically of the medical coordination in the mission.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

• To provide mental health support to MSF, national staff either in group or individual sessions at the field level in person or phone call.
• In case of an urgent need, provide psychological support to the national staff members affected (group and individual debriefing) when delegated by the Staff Care Unit.

METHODOLOGY

• The Psychologist will be available during the agreed service period to attend MSF staff’s requests, or to perform relevant follow-ups
• According to the protocol of Critical Incident, the Medical Coordinator must inform the Staff Care Unit of the situation and together they will decide the way to respond to the incident and the type of intervention expected from the local referent. The intervention might also include meeting in person, phone calls and follow-ups.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conduct individual and group interventions
• In coordination with the Staff Care Unit, participate in the external referral of those people in need of psychotherapy processes or psychiatric intervention.
• In case of a critical incident, provide psychological support to the national staff members affected (group and individual debriefing) following MSF internal protocols.
• Report his/her interventions to the Staff care Unit and the Medical coordinator. Recommendations will be provided to the Medical Coordinator and SCU. He/she also will share elements that can help to improve staff resilience (e.g., self-care strategies, suggestions regarding the aspects of the job that could potentially be adjusted to avoid further unrest).

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SELECTION CRITERIA

Training and experience:

• Professional of mental health such as psychologist or psychiatrist, with clinical and psychosocial experience;
• Good knowledge and experience in staff support, crisis intervention and working with groups;
• Experience providing psychosocial support in situations of conflict, violence (including S.V.) and/or natural disaster.
• Experience on group management and prevention strategies in order to promote resilience among team members.
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office.
• Familiar with Aid work.

  Competences:

  • High level of communication skills, teamwork, and group management.
  • Intercultural open-mindedness (value, interest and openness towards cultural diversity);
  • Cultural flexibility (tolerance to ambiguity, disposition to adapt to new situations);
  • Social responsibility and initiative (willingness to overcome stereotypes and prejudices);
  • Ethics and fair-mindedness (integrity and ethical behaviour in using influence and power);
  • Commitment to MSF’s Principles.
  • Analytical thinking.
  • Results and Quality Orientation.
  • Local working language is esential. Mission language (English) would be an asset.

  CONDITIONS

  • The external psychologist will respect strictly MSF security rules during the field visits. Any breach of security rules will lead to immediate termination of this agreement.
  • The external psychologist will keep confidentiality of all information she might access either of MSF or its staff.  Any disclosure of confidentiality leads to immediate termination of agreement and MSF reserves the right to complain in corresponding authorities.

All documents of application must be in English.

Please upload proposal including, as appendices a Resume detailing your experience, skills and education in relation to this assignment, as well as  financial claim. Below you could find a link for DRAFT Terms of Reference for your use during application.

The deadline for application is 04/05/2024.

All the steps of the selection will be done in ENGLISH.

In order to submit your application via Google Forms, you shall have a GMAIL account. If you do not have one, you shall create a GMAIL Account.

Link to Upload your document: forms.gle/qWLLCM1CvJqHrQDx7 

Draft TOR for application proposal: docs.google.com/document