Medical Doctor (Psychiatrist)

Position Title: Medical Doctor (Psychiatrist)

Activation Date: 17 March, 2025 Announced Date: 17 March, 2025 Expire Date: 27 March, 2025

• Job Location: Kabul
• Nationality: National
• Category: Health Care
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Salary: As per salary scale
• Vacancy Number: MH-2025-003
• No. Of Jobs: 2
• City: Kabul
• Organization: PSSWDO - Peace Stability and Social welfare development organization
• Years of Experience: At least 3 years relevant experience.
• Contract Duration: 1 year
• Gender: Male/Female
• Education: MD with Certificate of mhGAP, 5 years working in BPHS.
• Close date: 2025-03-27
  
  

About PSSWDO - Peace Stability and Social welfare development organization:

Peace, stability and social welfare development organization (PSSWDO) is a local nonpolitical, nongovernmental and non-profitable organization has been established on 14 November 2017. We are a grassroots civil society organization dedicated to protecting and promoting the rights of disenfranchised Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and to support them for a healthy life.

Job Description

Psychiatrists (Medical doctor of Mental Health) provide therapeutic services for women, girls and youths with mental health disorders. Psychiatrist (Mental Health Doctor) examine the patients who refer to the clinic or already registered/recorded during assessment and identification phase and prescribe needed medicine, if required the patient may refer to psychosocial counselors. Based on standard MH protocol the MH patient require 8-12 months even longer time therapy.

Key Responsibilities

• To keep good behave with the patient and have a powerful psychosocial counseling skill, to enable the client who comes and seeks help to regain a state of psychosocial wellbeing.
• Provide therapeutic services for women, girls and youths with mental health disorders.
• To support the team for technical issues especially support psychosocial counselor.
• Collaborate with the team to address the psychological needs of clients.
• Maintain confidential client records and documentation.
• Assist in organizing outreach activities focused on mental health education.
• Provide reports on cases and interventions when required.
• Work with other professionals to ensure comprehensive support for clients.
  
  

Job Requirements

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• MD with Certificate of mhGAP, 5 years working in BPHS.
• Having knowledge of Mental, Neurological and substance use (MNS) according to WHO standards.
• Having good communication skill and good psychosocial counseling skill.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with diverse teams and clients.
• Excellent communication, listening, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and professionalism in all cases.
• Fluency in Dari and/or Pashto and English.
  
  

Submission Guideline

• The subject must be included of position title and vacancy (MH-2025-003) please note that applications without the position title and vacancy will not be considered and will automatically be rejected.
• Academic certificates or references do not need to be submitted at this time. These will be requested if called for an interview.
• Only short-listed candidates will be invited for written tests and interviews upon project approval
  
  

Submission Email

[email protected]