Staff Psychological Debriefing Consultant (National) at Medecins Du Monde

Objectives

• To Support Emotional Recovery: Provide a safe environment for employees to process their feelings and reactions to traumatic incidents, reducing acute stress levels, and fostering emotional relief. This objective focuses on immediate well-being and psychological recovery.
• To Promote Team Unity and Prevent Burnout: Foster team unity, facilitate sharing of practices, and address personal issues to prevent secondary traumatization and burnout. This objective focuses on team well-being, support, and growth.
• To Prevent Long-Term Psychological Issues: By addressing initial reactions and providing timely support, psychological debriefing contributes to the prevention of long-term psychological issues, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Methodology    The Methodology utilized by the external facilitator will be participatory and utilize  techniques such as group/team sessions and one -on-one session amongst other.

Outcome  Improve Participants knowledge by:

• Providing staff with requisite skills in managing stress and practicing positive adopting positive self-care practices
• Improving staff psychological, emotional and physical well being
• Help reduces immediate stress and anxiety
• Improving coping mechanism/skills by exploring personal problems and find new ways of dealing with them
• Early detection of issues,  It will help identify staff members who may be suffering from effect of traumatic events
• Providing ways that will facilitate self-knowledge and self-understanding (personal growth) of MdM staff
• Preventing secondary traumatization, burn out and other psychological suffering among staff members
• Communicating to MdM management any concerns or special support required by staff(s) that may limit them carrying out their roles.

Summary of Response    

• Review of mental health issues in the frontline response.
• mental health and psychosocial well-being
• Trauma, healing and recovery
• Ethical guidance in work environment
• Stress management

Qualification    

• M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology
• 5 years of clinical consultancy practice
• Knowledge trauma healing and stress management
• Registered member with the NACP