Emergency Psychiatrist ER-026

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***NOTE*** - THIS POSITION IS TO APPLY TO A STAND BY ROSTER FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (ERT).

Candidates selected for this position will be placed on the ERT standby roster and may be called when the International Medical Corps ERT responds to an emergency. This position is not compensated unless candidates are responding to an emergency response.

When catastrophe hits, International Medical Corps is often one of the first humanitarian aid organizations on the scene—providing rapid and effective aid that saves lives, reduces suffering, and promotes self reliance.

International Medical Corps has established an International Emergency Roster to ensure that emergency positions are filled in a timely manner with professionally qualified, gender balanced, geographically diverse, linguistically able and a highly motivated corps of professionals. The team includes coordinators, logisticians, doctors and water and sanitation experts. It also includes specialists who focus on protection, prevention of sexual violence and aid for rape survivors and mental health.

Emergency Response Team (ERT) members are always on standby to deploy to a crisis within 72 hours, whether they are launching into new areas or lending support to International Medical Corps teams already on the ground.

International Medical Corps maintains a roster of staff which is updated on regular basis in order to include new staff into the system. This also provides an opportunity for the existing staff to update their areas of expertise and other relevant information.

Through this expression of Interest, applicants are encouraged to submit their profiles so that their information is readily available in the International Medical Corps applicant tracking system.


ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Train primary health care (PHC) staff to identify and manage those with mental or psychosocial disturbances through regular seminars, on-the-job training and regular supervision of treatment.
2. Assist the PHC staff in creating a clinical service for the mentally ill that is integrated into their working week, through specially allocated clinical time or an equivalent mechanism.
3. Respond to psychiatric emergencies in conjunction with PHC staff.
4. Keep a comprehensive audit of all clinical work conducted and train PHC staff to similarly audit their work in order to provide comprehensive patient contact and management data.
5. Collaborate with indigenous healers and discuss ways of providing more integrated mental health services.
6. Support and assist in training of refugee volunteers in mental health and psychosocial support
7. Organize public awareness and de-stigmatization campaigns around mental health issues with support from local staff including refugee volunteers
8. Support refugee volunteers in the development of psychosocial activities in the community attached to the PHC programme
9. Assume responsibility for monitoring and reporting on the work to demonstrate the extent to which the indicators listed in the proposals are being met.
10. Liaise effectively with IMC global mental health advisor to provide training materials and tools for review, send regular technical reports (quarterly) and receive input on development of materials.
11. Coordinate project monitoring and evaluation activities, with attention to record of lessons learned through evidence-based practice for the purpose of project replication or expansion.
12. Work within the framework of the IASC guidelines for mental health and psychosocial support in emergency settings and Sphere standards
13. Help in the promotion of IASC guidelines
14. Represent IMC as requested in various for a including cluster and working group meetings
15. Work collaboratively with other agencies, local and international and with relevant government bodies