# Mental Health Professionals

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Caracas
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking Mental Health Professionals to support the implementation of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) interventions in humanitarian contexts.

**Job Titles:**

- Mental Health Officer

- Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Assistants

- Health Officer

**Mental Health Officer and Assistants:** The selected candidates will contribute to the prevention, mitigation, and care of emotional distress resulting from crisis situations and other vulnerability conditions.

Responsibilities include:

- Implementing MHPSS interventions in humanitarian contexts

- Providing psychological first aid and clinical interventions

- Conducting emotional screening and monitoring

- Identifying risk signals and referring cases to specialized services

- Supporting community-based psychosocial activities

- Collaborating with community promoters, schools, and allied actors

**Health Officer:** The Health Officer will support primary health care and reproductive health activities in Venezuela.

Responsibilities include:

- Supporting clinical activities of partners

- Ensuring high-quality health services for the target population

- Accompanying activities in Caracas, Miranda, and La Guaira

**Requirements:**

- Degree in Clinical Psychology (for Mental Health Officer and Assistants)

- Degree in General Medicine (for Health Officer)

- Minimum 2 years of professional experience in clinical attention

- Experience in MHPSS in humanitarian settings (desirable)

- Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications

**Professional Standards:** The IRC operates under the values of Integrity, Service, Equality, and Accountability, and adheres to policies on safeguarding, conflicts of interest, fiscal integrity, and reporting wrongdoing.

## Skills

### Required
- Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- General Medicine
- Microsoft Office
- MHPSS
- Psychological First Aid

### Nice to have
- Experience in humanitarian settings
- Certification in supervision
- mhGAP-HIG
- SELF HELP PLUS
- EP+
- IPC
- IPT
- CBT
- TF-CBT
- EMDR

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