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Deadline of this Job: 07 December 2022
JOB DETAILS:
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
JOB DETAILS:
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
Deadline of this Job: 07 December 2022
JOB DETAILS:
Our midwives often have a dual responsibility; working in health centres and conducting outreach work in the community. No matter what the context - whether working in natural disasters, conflicts or poverty-affected communities - babies will continue to be born and midwives will always be needed.
It's a challenging and rewarding role and you will be responsible for some or all of the following:
• Pre and post-delivery care
• Deliveries, often complicated
• Care of survivors of sexual violence
• Setting up maternity departments in new health centres or hospitals
• Working with community birth attendants to ensure safe community birthing practices
• Running awareness programs in the community
• Training local midwives
• On-call care, often 24 hours
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in midwifery or a Degree in nursing with the exception of Community Health Nursing.
• All nurses applying to the midwifery position must have over 2 years’ experience working in a busy labor ward.
• Valid registration
• Experience in supervising, managing and training others
• Experience of obstetric emergencies/complicated deliveries, termination of pregnancy, sexual violence
• Willingness to be regularly on call for difficult and complicated deliveries
• Over three months experience of working in a low resource settings
• Willingness to work in unstable areas
• Available for six to nine months
• Adaptable and able to work in a multi-cultural team
• Flexible and able to manage stress
• Fluency in English
Desirable
• Tropical nursing diploma
• Knowledge of STDs/HIV/AIDS
• Family planning experience
• Community midwifery experience
• Experience working in a similar organisation
• Knowledge of other working languages e.g French and or Arabic
JOB DETAILS:
Our midwives often have a dual responsibility; working in health centres and conducting outreach work in the community. No matter what the context - whether working in natural disasters, conflicts or poverty-affected communities - babies will continue to be born and midwives will always be needed.
It's a challenging and rewarding role and you will be responsible for some or all of the following:
• Pre and post-delivery care
• Deliveries, often complicated
• Care of survivors of sexual violence
• Setting up maternity departments in new health centres or hospitals
• Working with community birth attendants to ensure safe community birthing practices
• Running awareness programs in the community
• Training local midwives
• On-call care, often 24 hours
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in midwifery or a Degree in nursing with the exception of Community Health Nursing.
• All nurses applying to the midwifery position must have over 2 years’ experience working in a busy labor ward.
• Valid registration
• Experience in supervising, managing and training others
• Experience of obstetric emergencies/complicated deliveries, termination of pregnancy, sexual violence
• Willingness to be regularly on call for difficult and complicated deliveries
• Over three months experience of working in a low resource settings
• Willingness to work in unstable areas
• Available for six to nine months
• Adaptable and able to work in a multi-cultural team
• Flexible and able to manage stress
• Fluency in English
Desirable
• Tropical nursing diploma
• Knowledge of STDs/HIV/AIDS
• Family planning experience
• Community midwifery experience
• Experience working in a similar organisation
• Knowledge of other working languages e.g French and or Arabic
Job Info
Job Category:
Several Jobs in one Advert jobs in Kenya
Job Type:
Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 07 December 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted:
24-11-2022
No of Jobs:
2
Start Publishing:
24-11-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030):
24-11-2066
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