Turkey: Psychiatrist

Primary Responsibilities of this position

Provide psychiatric support to mental health clients according to IMC principles and protocols in order to improve the patients’ mental health and provide clinical supervision and capacity building for GPs, Team Leaders and PSWs

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
• Provide treatment in line with nationally and locally defined professional standards and work within humanitarian guidelines and principles

General Duties for MHPSS Program

• Providing psychiatric care for mental health clients.
• Work regularly at duty sites to serve the beneficiaries from 9am to 5pm.
• Use of medications appropriately when necessary.
• Participate in regular case management team meetings for interdisciplinary care of patients.
• Provide Clinical Supervision and Capacity building for PSS Teams
• Accept referrals from the case management team, from other NGOs, and from IMC’s primary health care doctors.
• Attend monthly mental health meeting managed by the MHPSS Coordinator, Manager or Psychiatrist Manager.
• Deliver mental health trainings and supervision to the case management team and primary health care doctors.
• Provide clinical supervision to primary health care physicians during assessment of mental health cases.
• 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.
• Keep a record of medications prescribed
• 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 and compile report for any training provided.

QUALIFICATIONS: (Training/education/experience/physical demands required)

• Medical degree
• Qualified Psychiatrist
• 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: Fluency in Written and Spoken Arabic and English. Turkish will be an advantage
• 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:

hr-urfa@InternationalMedicalCorps.org