Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Australia is seeking a psychiatrist to provide clinical leadership and direct patient care in challenging humanitarian settings. Responsibilities include medication management, medical advice, and training local staff to sustain mental health services in resource-limited environments.

The role requires fellowship with RANZCP or equivalent training in psychiatry with substantial adult experience, and a track record in trauma-related mental health, HIV/TB

Psychiatrists provide care for people who have been traumatised in the face of natural disasters, conflicts, and sexual assault. They also provide psychological care for patients who are mentally exhausted due to prolonged conflicts as well as those who deal with long-term treatment of and discrimination against illnesses such as HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.

In some cases, a psychiatrist and a psychologist work together, while in other cases, the psychiatrist takes the lead. Psychiatrists are responsible for providing medication, medical advice, and training for local medical staff.

Most people who receive mental health care speak the local language, so counseling is provided through an interpreter. Therefore, it is also important to provide guidance and training to local interpreters.

• Conduct individual consultation in clinical practice as a psychiatrist
• Provide medication and medical advice
• Support programs and teams by proposing improvements in line with MSF's goals and strategies
• Improve working environment as needed and coordinate team efforts
• Plan training for staff and conduct evaluations, supervision, etc.
• Refer patients to appropriate local facilities as needed
• Submit activity reports and manage data (patient files, forms, statistics, databases, etc.)
• Fellow of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP), or Resident in Psychiatry with six semesters (three years) validated in psychiatry (with at least two years in adult psychiatry)
• Professional experience in mental health issues associated with at least two of the following areas: HIV/AIDS, post-traumatic stress disorder, sexual violence, trauma, tuberculosis, substance abuse
• Minimum of two years clinical experience in a multi-disciplinary setting treating patients with psychotherapeutic and/or counseling methods
• Available for a minimum of six months
• Current practising certificate and must display no recent gap in clinical experience greater than two years
• Experience in child and adolescent mental health
• Experience providing psychotherapy over a short period of time
• Experience providing counseling tailored to the needs of an individual, group, family, etc.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) develops medical-operational guidelines for use in resource-limited environments. These guidelines draw from practical experience and scientific data collected in MSF's projects, as well as evidence published by the World Health Organization and other leading medical institutions and scientific literature.

General physicians and general practitioners are responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating medical activities in clinics and health centres. Their role is broad, from targeting areas such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, camps for refugees/internally displaced persons, nutritional treatment (including emergency assistance), vaccination campaigns, etc. to acting as a hospital's physician, including work in emergency primary care, wound treatment, and paediatric care. Those in this position deal with a wide range of common diseases, such as diabetes and general bacterial infectious diseases as well as tropical diseases. In addition to medical treatment, working alongside locally hired staff, mutually sharing skills and expertise and collaborating with other medical providers in the sector (other NGOs, Ministry of Health) is required.

• Provide outpatient and/or inpatient medical care to patients/beneficiaries according to adapted and updated medical knowledge, MSF protocols, values and universal hygiene standards to improve the patients/beneficiaries health conditions.
• Diagnose patient conditions relevant to the project and provide medical treatment with limited resources.
• Compile medical data, report to the operation centre on a regular basis, and engage in consultation when necessary.
• Provide insight and solve problems regarding patient treatment policies; manage the work of locally hired staff (both doctors and general medical and allied health staff).
• Plan, participate in, and supervise education and training to improve the medical skills of locally hired staff.
• Provide public health guidance for local communities and patients (cross-cultural medical care based on cultural backgrounds) and cooperate with medical institutions and governments.
• Facilitate public health knowledge and skills for both individual and group care (vaccination, preventive medication, etc.), such as outbreak response in refugee camps.
• Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicans, Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practioners, Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine or equivalent.
• Clinical experience in two or more of the following areas - Anaesthetics, Obstetrics/Gynaecology, Paediatrics, NCD's, Nutrition, Emergency Medicine, Infectious Diseases, ICU, Minor Surgery.
• At least two years clinical experience working in rural and remote regions and/or low resource settings.
• Experience in providing comprehensive primary health within a multidisciplinary team.
• Diploma in international public health, obstetrics and gynaecology, refugee health, paediatrics, infectious diseases, or tropical medicine.
• Available for assignment for a minimum of nine months or longer.
• Current practising certificate and must display no recent gap in clinical experience greater than two years.
• Infectious diseases specialty(HIV/TB in particular)
• Extensive experience in emergency care (including minor surgery)
• Over one year of experience in paediatrics, ICU, and obstetrics

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) develops medical-operational guidelines for use in resource-limited environments. These guidelines draw from practical experience and scientific data collected in MSF's projects, as well as evidence published by the World Health Organization and other leading medical institutions and scientific literature.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is seeking a General Physician/General Practitioner to plan, implement and evaluate medical activities in clinics and health centres. The role covers HIV/AIDS, TB, refugee camps, vaccination campaigns, and paediatric care, within resource-limited settings.

Responsibilities include providing clinical care, mentoring local staff, and contributing to public health guidance and policy development.