Turkey: National Psychiatrist

Provide psychiatric support to patients according to IMC principles and protocols in order to improve the patients’ mental health.

Specific Duties

Ethics

• Follow all ethical standards in his/her work with individuals, families and communities and maintain a personal living standard that serves as a positive role model.
• Maintain confidentiality of all clients.
• Provide treatment in the best interest of each client.

General Duties for Mental health Program

• Providing psychiatric care for Syrian clients in both IDP camps and urban settings inside Syria.
• Work regularly at duty site to serve the beneficiaries 5 days per week from 9am to 5pm.
• Use of medications appropriately when necessary.
• Participate in regular case management team meetings for interdisciplinary care of patients.
• Accept referrals from the case management team, from other NGOs, directly from the camps and from IMC’ primary health care doctors.
• Attend weekly mental health training sessions provided by the expatriate psychiatrist.
• Deliver mental health training to the case management team and primary health care doctors.
• Provide clinical supervision to primary health care physicians during assessment of mental health cases
• Become a trainer for primary health care physicians and the case management team.
• Facilitate the smooth operations of the mental health clinic by providing appropriate technical and administrative support to the team.

Reporting

• Report directly on all tasks and responsibilities to direct supervisor.
• Keep a daily record of all patients seen using Clinical Audit Sheet.
• Provide a weekly report of number of cases seen and diagnosis by age and gender as well as a source of referral using spreadsheets and collection tools provided
• Keep a record of attendance for any training provided.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum medical degree; preferably with a Master’s in Psychiatry

• Must have excellent communications skills, both oral and written

• Must have excellent self-motivation skills

• Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently

• Extremely flexible, and have the ability to cope with stressful situations and frustrations

• Ability to relate to and motivate local staff effectively

• Creativity and the ability to work with limited resources

• Excellent decision making skills.

• Must work independently under difficult conditions

• Language Skills:

• Ability to read, analyze and interpret, technical and non-technical English language documents and manuals.

• Ability to write reports, and manuals.

Applications should include a detailed CV and a cover letter should be submitted in English with the subject title to following email address, respectively:

hrantakya@internationalmedicalcorps.org