Save the Children Medical Doctor Psychiatrist Job Vacancy in Rwanda

POSITION
ANNOUNCEMENT

Rwanda
Country Programme, Kigali Rwanda

BACKGROUND:

Save the Children is
the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120
countries. We work together, with partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way
the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their
lives. Save the Children works in thirteen districts in Rwanda with a current
staff complement of approximately 94 staff. SC is implementing an emergency
response programme to support the Burundi refugees in Mahama Refugee Camp.

SC Rwanda Country
Office seeks to hire qualified, committed and experienced nationals to
fill the following positions: 

MEDICAL
DOCTOR – Psychiatrist

Tentative
start date: 
                   January
2016

PURPOSE OF
POSITION:

The Medical Doctor
–Psychiatrist will work to contribute to an improvement in the overall mental
health of the targeted Refugee population in Mahama Camp through the provision
of quality primary health care with Mental Health fully integrated. The
Psychiatrist will work collaboratively with the health team; Ministry of Health
staff and partners to meet the mental health needs of patients, promote healthy
behaviors, strengthen health systems and increase local capacity.

KEY AREAS OF
ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Responsible
  for the general running of the OPD Mental Health Diagnosis and treatment
  as per MOH/WHO guidelines.
• Review
  all patients  requiring Mental Health  referral to secondary
  level Health facilities for further management
• Supervise
  Provision Comprehensive Mental Health Care to refugees in Mahama Camp and
  link them to available services both clinical and psychosocial.
• To
  Ensure  Consultant (Medical Doctors & Nurses) are providing
  quality Mental  health care service  provision in an integrated
  approach as per  MOH protocols
• Monitor
  Mental illness  in Mahama Refugee Camp trends through review of
  weekly and monthly morbidity data generated from the clinic
• Advice
  Medical staff on monthly drug use to avoid drug ruptures and misuse.
• Together
  with PHC Nurses, Nurse Assistant and Midwives , review and analyze all
  compiled data before submission to the  Management, MoH or WHO
• In
  additional to the above listed responsibilities the Medical
  Doctor-Psychiatrist will also be responsible for any other duty deemed
  necessary by the Line Manager.

Capacity
Building:

• Identify
  learning and training opportunities for Save the Children health staff and
  partners and work as a mentor and role model for less experienced staff.

General:

• Comply
  with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child
  protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and
  other relevant policies and procedures.

CORE
BEHAVIOURS

Understanding
humanitarian contexts and application of humanitarian principles:

• Able
  to assess and analyse key issues in the humanitarian situation and
  formulate actions around them
• Actively
  engages in disaster coordination mechanisms and interagency cooperation
• Leads
  on the development of an organisational response based on an understanding
  of the contexts

Achieving
results effectively:

• Ensures
  beneficiary and partner feedback is incorporated into programme design,
  planning and learning
• Demonstrates
  flexibility to adapt plans and make decisions in rapidly changing
  environments
• Actively
  manages risk and takes action to reduce risk
• Makes
  changes to improve performance as a result of information received
• Documents
  lessons learned and applies them to future projects

Maintaining and
developing collaborative relationships:

• Develops
  strategies for teams to work across traditional boundaries, working in
  diverse environments
• Establishes
  clear objectives with teams and individuals and monitors progress and
  performance
• Fosters
  collaborative, transparent and accountable relationships through partners
• Uses
  negotiation and conflict resolution skills to support positive outcomes

Operating safely
and securely:

• Demonstrates
  an understanding of wider UN/NGO security coordination and how the
  organisation can benefit from, and contribute to, those mechanisms
• Undertakes
  effective risk assessments and develops contingency plans
• Takes
  appropriate, coordinated and consistent action to handle situations of
  personal risk and risk for others
• Reduces
  vulnerability by complying with safety and security protocols set by the
  organisation

Managing you in
a pressured and changing environment:

• Helps
  team members to practise stress management through prioritisation of
  workloads and modelling of appropriate self-care
• Remains
  focused on the objectives and goals in a rapidly changing environment
• Remains
  effective and retains perspective in the face of difficult or demanding
  situations           
  SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS
  (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds
  self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently,
  achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds
  the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities –
  giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing
  the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate
  consequences when results are not achieved
• Creates
  a managerial environment across the Region to lead, enable and
  maintain our culture of child safeguarding

Ambition:

• Sets
  ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility
  for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the
  same
• Future
  orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale

Collaboration:

• Approachable,
  good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective
  relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and
  supporters
• Values
  diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work
  cross-culturally.

Creativity:

• Develops
  and encourages new and innovative solutions

Integrity:

• honest,
  encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence
• displays
  consistent excellent judgement

QUALIFICATIONS
AND EXPERIENCE

Qualifications

1. A
   qualified Medical Doctor with Psychiatry & Tropical Medicine
   experience, registered / licensed by medical practitioners board
2. Experience
   in working in Primary Health Care and health center/hospital setting.
3. Experience
   working with international NGO.
4. Excellent
   liaison abilities and good communication skills (French, Kiswahili and
   English preferred).
5. Experience
   in training of Health workers in clinical and rational prescription of
   drugs
6. Willingness
   to work in resource poor environment and be culturally sensitive.
7. Ability
   to produce reports in English
8. Ability
   to work in a remote area and in context of limited resources.
9. Experience
   managing  Referral of  psychiatric patients  from Primary
   Health Care centres to secondary level facilities

Desirable

• Language
  skills in Kinyarwanda,  French and Swahili
• An
  area of particular expertise within humanitarian health
• Experience
  of working on HIV programmes
• Specific
  experience of working in consortia projects.

Interested
candidates should send an application letter plus updated Curriculum Vitae in
English, including 3 names of professional referees to HR-Rwanda@savethechildren.org.
The deadline for receiving applications is 26th November 2015.

*Note that
only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.