Mental Health Officer (Managed by Nairobi) at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

  • Full Time
  • Nairobi

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) offers impactful career opportunities for healthcare professionals and support staff. Committed to humanitarian aid, MSF provides extensive training and global deployment options. Employees gain unique experiences while making a difference in crisis-affected areas, fostering personal and professional growth.

Mental Health Officer (Managed by Nairobi)

  • Job Type Full Time
  • Qualification BA/BSc/HND
  • Experience
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field Medical / Healthcare 

Being a mental health officer (MHO) with MSF is an intense but rewarding job. From providing psychological first aid to survivors of natural disasters to counselling HIV patients, our MHOs play a vital role in our projects. Trauma is often the most painful aspect of surviving a conflict or disaster, or living with a disease, and mental healthcare is vital for recovery.

Responsibilities 

  • Our MHOs often head a group of outreach workers and counsellors, providing care in the health facilities but also out in the community.
  • It’s a challenging and exciting role and you would be responsible for some or all of the following:
  • Doing a community mental health assessment
  • Planning a mental health strategy
  • Managing mental healthcare for an entire hospital/project
  • Providing care for victims of sexual violence
  • Supporting groups of displaced people
  • Identifying and managing protection issues

Requirements

  • Formal education and post qualification in one of the following: Clinical Psychology, Counselling Psychology, Social work (with additional psychological therapy qualification), Psychiatry (with additional psychological therapy qualification)
  • Currently licensed to practice  one of the above areas with independent licensed clinical practice
  • Two year’s post-qualification experience
  • Experience working in the field of HIV/AIDS, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), sexual violence, Tuberculosis (TB) care
  • Experience in managing and training mental health workers
  • Experience in the clinical supervision of others and treating trauma related problems
  • Experience with emergency mental health/crisis interventions
  • A second language (preferably French, Arabic, Spanish or Portuguese)
  • Able to work well as a part of a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary team
  • Willing to work in unstable areas and ability to cope in a difficult and unpredictable environment
  • Available for a minimum of nine to twelve months
  • Minimum of three months’ work, volunteering or travelling experience in developing countries
  • Fluency in English​ is essential, Arabic and French will be an asset

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on careers.msf-applications.org to apply

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