A Psychologist (M/F) - Palestine

MdM-France has been working in Palestine since 1995. The general goal of MdM-F is to improve the physical and mental health of the Palestinian populations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip through developing local health professionals’ abilities in specialised fields (i.e. orthopaedic surgery, basic life support trainings, mental health access, etc), addressing the health care system limitations, developing emergency preparedness plans with local partners and engage in advocacy and communications activities where possible.

MdM-F is established in Nablus since 2002 and intervenes there in the field of mental health. Since 2008, MdM-F strategy in Nablus includes 3 components:

• A psychosocial component for children in schools of villages affected by violence and concerned with protection issues
• The training and supervision of the health staff in the primary health care centres of the same villages, focusing on mental health (receiving / listening / orientating) to improve the access to mental health care at the village level
• The supervision of a community mental health center at Nablus level (governorate)
• A new project phase started in July 2011, combining the mental health and primary health care components, targeting vulnerable areas in the Nablus governorate.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Supervision , technical support for the targeted PHC staff in addition of the participation in the psychosocial, awareness and anti-stigmatization activities.

More specifically: • Supervision of the PHC staff and following up the MH interventions of the PHC staff in the targeted PHCCs
• Supervision of the referral system activities in the PHCCs. In addition to the collaboration with other MDM-F team members in following the referral system activities at 3 levels , Schools, PHCCs and CMHC
• Will be in charge of implementing in-service training sessions for the PHC staff regarding the filling and registration system
• Will be in charge of awareness sessions and other anti-stigmatization activities which will be based in the targeted PHCCs
• Implementation of psychological interventions directly with the targeted community if requested in case of emergency
• Develop technical tools / improves the existing tools (monitoring and evaluation, follow-up of activities, etc)
• Support the program coordinator in collaboration with the technical staff of the other MDM delegations present in Palestine (MDM-CH / MDM-Spain) to exchange on practices, tools and projects related to MH.
• Conduct training session for the mental health practitioners working in the CMHC, and PHCC.

If needed • Support the Field team in the implementation of psychosocial and community based activities.

REPORTING and Other Tasks :

 Report monthly to the programme Coordinator on the activities of the programme.
 Elaborate the parts related to the PHC activities, results and indicators in the reporting documents
 Support Drafting of the technical parts of proposals and reporting on the progress of MH activities
 Participates in the analysis of the mental health programming activities (including any required investigation in the field);
 Implement networking with other technical mental health actors and maintaining contacts with MH providers on the technical level.
 Under the supervision of the program coordinator, attends meetings related to mental health, representing MDM-F technical view, and provides appropriate feed-back (minutes);
 Assist the program coordinator in the needs assessment.
 Assist the program coordinator in the elaboration of the Palestine mission advocacy plan and its implementation
 Assists the program coordinator in collecting data from external sources like Ministry OF Health and Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoH and MoEHE).

Location: Based in Nablus

Work Experiences / Career: - Mental Health background: Psychologist , Clinical Psychologist - Preferably knowledgeable in Public Health - experience in Mental health project, preferably abroad - experience of working with a multicultural team is preferable - previous experience in the oPt and / or in the arab world would be an asset

Languages required: Fluent English (oral and written) mandatory Arabic speaker an asset

Contract duration : 6 months (renewable)

Starting: 01/11/2011

Contract: VOLUNTEER (French law)

Monthly allowance: 800 euros / months (+ perdiem)

TO APPLY, please send a CV and cover letter via our website:

http://www.medecinsdumonde.org/postes/vacancies/puestos-abiertos/Interna...

MdM reserves the right to close any vacancy before the end of the advertised deadline. Thank you for your understanding.