Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Flying Manager

Main Mission

The Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Activity Flying Manager (MHPSS) is responsible for the mental health strategy and the implementation of the psycho-social support for patients, their families, the community and the teams.

He/she ensures the functioning of the mental health pole on the Nigeria projects.

Responsibilities

Implementation of ALIMA programs:

Contribute to Implement and evolve the mental health care strategy, care circuit and referral in each intervention site;

Ensures the implementation and monitoring of psychological support for beneficiaries in the various projects, patients or isolated people and families

Organize the mental health department in collaboration with the Mental Health project teams, Medical coordination and HQ.

Ensures and follow the psychological support for the team in the fields and in the mission

Supervise the organization of the psychological first aid sessions for patients and victims;

Supervise and sharing time of practices on specific situations

Ensures the effectiveness of mental health and psychosocial support activities in accordance with the defined action plan and according to the minimum package of mental health activities vs. the complete package, with a focus on psychological first aid, prevention and management of psychotrauma;

Ensures the development of partnerships for the management, orientation and referral of severe or chronic cases of mental disorders and/or psychosocial problems.

Collaborate with partners to ensure the continuity of patients care

Assure the drafting of training modules and be in charge of training of trainers in the mental health department according to identified needs.

Collected information on vulnerable audiences and ensured the establishment of focus groups and discussion groups.

Monitoring, analysis and reporting:

Participates in external meetings and reports relevant information to the Medical coordinator

Conducts a weekly summary of mental health activities and reports to the medical coordinator and feedback on the mental health activities to the Mental Health managers of the projects.

Follows the issues and recommendations of the cluster

Produces a mission report and recommendations

Representation, coordination with other teams:

Ensures networking with the various partners,

Participates in meetings related to his/her field of intervention on the instructions of the head office mental health referent;

Management of the mental health team:

Supervise the organization of the duties and schedules of the mental health team.

Ensures the proper transmission of information, provides clinical supervision of teams

Ensure regular formative supervision for the teams.

Analyse and put into action the data collected for the department of mental health monitoring and activity report

Capacity building and team facilitation:

Support the sets up a mental health team in collaboration with the project coordinator (the recruitment, training and reinforcement)

Ensures that the skills of the mental Health staff are updated according to the evolution of the technical platform and the protocols made available to the mission

Defines and update job profiles and performance objective plans for team members and participate in the same documents for medical coordinator

Carries out the assessments of its team in an approach of professional course

Identify the skills that team members need to acquire to master their positions and organize training to reinforce them

Ensure trainings in accordance with ALIMA's minimum package of mental health activities, and if necessary according to the complete package (psychological first aid, psychosocial activities, psychological support in the practice of medical care, mental health staff, prevention and management of psychotrauma, the relationship between caregivers and patients, and other needs identified upstream).

Team health:

Supervise the organization of the briefing sessions / He/she supports the teams in case of critical incident

Ensures the implementation and follow-up of the psychological support of the teams on the different projects

Evaluates and validates mental health referral structures with the project's medrefs and medco.

Qualifications

Professional Master's degree in clinical and/or health psychology or equivalent

Previous experience in humanitarian work

Experience working with vulnerable people in an intercultural context

A minimum of 3 years of Proven experience at psychological scope

Proven experience of conducting of training

Qualities of the candidate:

An ability to problematize and summarize the main psychological issues and be able to set priorities

Good teamwork and delegation skills

A good deal of autonomy and the ability to create one's own position in line with the association's objectives and resources

Good writing skills

A good knowledge of psycho-trauma

Languages:

English fluent

Nigeria local languages could be are an asset

Conditions:

Contract term:

Contract term: contract under French law, contract length: 6 months (renewable, based on funding availability and performance)

Position to be filled: ASAP

Salary: depending on experience + per diem

ALIMA pays for :

travel costs between the expatriate’s country of origin and the mission location

Accommodation costs

medical cover from the first day of the contract to a month after the date of departure from the mission country for the employee

Evacuation of the employee.

Minimum qualifications

MBA/MSc/MA

Requirements

Note:

Applications are processed in the order of arrival and we reserve the right to close the offer before the term initially indicated if a good application is successful.

Only full applications will be taken into account. Only accepted applications will be contacted.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Interested and qualified? Go to Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) on alliance.alima.ngo to apply

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