Clinical Psychologists

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has a global team of over 68,000 people to deliver medical humanitarian care in 74 countries. Our teams are made up of medical, non-medical and operational professionals to provide assistance to people in crisis, whether they’re affected by conflict, natural disaster, disease outbreak, or excluded from healthcare.

The Role:

Clinical psychologists at MSF provide vital care for people who have been traumatised in the face of natural disasters, conflict, sexual violence or disease outbreak. They also provide psychological care for patients mentally exhausted from long-term treatment of illnesses such as HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, who have faced discrimination in their community.

They handle counseling training for local psychologists and psychological support volunteers, taking the cultural background of the project country into consideration to provide a flexible, broad range of psychotherapy, including approaches such as cognitive-behavioural therapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy.

In some cases, a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist work together, while in other cases the psychiatrist takes the lead. Most people who receive mental care speak the local language, so counselling is provided through an English- or French-speaking interpreter.

Responsibilities

• Conduct individual consultations in clinical practice
• Support programs and teams by proposing improvements in line with MSF’s goals and strategies
• Improve working environment as needed and coordinate team efforts
• Plan training for staff and conduct evaluations, supervision, etc.
• Refer patients to appropriate local facilities as needed
• Submit activity reports and manage data (patient files, forms, statistics, databases, etc.)

REquirements

• Compliance with all the essential requirements for international staff
• Endorsed and registered as a Clinical Psychologist
• Professional experience supervising, managing, and training staff
• Master Level Degree or equivalent in Psychology (five years minimum study) with relevant trainings for clinical practice, specialisation in clinical psychology, counselling, psychotherapy, psychopathology, neuropsychology or related subject and licensed to practice as a Clinical Psychologist
• Minimum of two years of diverse professional clinical experiences and appropriate type of clinical work completed, full time two years direct individual and group sessions in multi-disciplinary settings
• Experience with a range of psychotherapeutic methods/approaches such as systemic, cognitive-behavioural, psychodynamic, or client-centred
• Experience working in humanitarian settings and/or with vulnerable and culturally diverse populations
• Professional experience in mental health issues associated with at least TWO of the following areas:
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Sexual violence
  • Trauma
  • Tuberculosis (TB)
  • Substance abuse
• Available for assignment for a minimum of nine months
• Must display no recent gap in clinical experience greater than two years
• Willingness to abide by Médecins Sans Frontières medical protocol

More details about the role: here. To submit your application, please click Apply Now.

Before you apply:

• Watch or attend at least one recruitment webinar to learn more about working overseas with MSF.
• Ensure that you fulfil all of the essential criteria for all our international staff.
• Ensure you fulfil all the role requirements.

If you’re interested in working for MSF but not yet ready to apply you can register for recruitment updates.

Before starting the application, please prepare the following:

• CV
• Motivation letter
• Skills assessment form for mental health specialists (attached).

A position description is attached.