Staff Health Unit (SHU) Intern

Médecins Sans Frontières en Suisse

Internships at MSF are part of an intra- or extra-academic course, or according to federal professional integration measures lien Etat de Genève : engager un-e stagiaire. A tripartite internship agreement is mandatory.

Context

MSF has a responsibility to ensure that staff are adequately prepared before going on field assignments and that their health and well-being are adequately supported whilst on mission. This includes preventive and curative mental and physical health care.

The Staff Health Unit (SHU) is the focal point within MSF Switzerland for advising on all work-related health issues to MSF staff. The SHU provides technical support to the field in the development, implementation and regular update of health policies created to safeguard the health of all MSF employees.

Mission & Internship Objectives

The intern will support the Staff Health in the delivery of quality support to the health and wellbeing of MSF employees and:

  • Learn the mechanics of running a staff health unit in a humanitarian aid organization.
  • Learn and/or suggest improvements in good practice in staff health management
  • Depending on the intern’s learning ability and his/her background, additional responsibilities and activities may be assigned
  • During the internship period and in agreement with the SHU Manager, the intern may identify and work on a specific topic related to her/his academic background, competencies and interest.

Tasks and responsibilities

In relation to briefings and debriefings

  • Ensure that all MSF staff going or coming back to a field mission have access to quality mental health preventative and curative services:
  • Dispatching and follow-up of briefings and debriefings of international and mobile staff, to the OCG SHU psychologist or to the external consultants according to the defined criteria.

Monitoring of the SHU activities

  • Support developing and maintaining a monitoring system to keep track the SHU activities (numbers of briefings/debriefings/referrals for support and other activities).
  • Support the SHU in the gradual uploading of information of its data base.
  • Ensure that fitness certificates of staff going to the field transferred to the pertinent person in the Administration team, or duly filled in the SHU data base (data base under development).

Administrative tasks

  • In charge of invoices follow-up from external consultants and other service providers, linking with the Accounting Unit.
  • Provide support to the SHU whenever needed, in order to arrange medical or psychological appointments for MSF staff who need medical care, when pertinent.
  • Support the unit with the diffusion/uploading of updated documents into the knowledge management platform.
  • Internal communications upon delegation of the SHU Manager

Other activities

  • Participate in the weekly team meetings.
  • Participate in other MSF internal meetings – workshops, webinars, according on pertinence and availability/workload.

Depending on the competencies of the intern, and in agreement with the SHU Manager, additional tasks can be arranged.

Your profile

Education

  • Tertiary degree in Management and Administration, Management of Health Services or equivalent.
  • Advanced studies in Clinical Psychology, an asset

Experience

  • Experience in statistics or data management, an asset

Skills/ Technical competencies

  • Planning and organisational skills
  • Excellent knowledge of the Microsoft Office environment
  • Knowledge of key issues of the humanitarian environment

Languages

  • Fluent in French and English (oral and written)

Personal qualities

  • Excellent ability to succesfully work in a multicultural environment and to demonstrate commitment and support for diversity, gender-responsive, inclusive, and non-discriminatory behaviour and attitudes.
  • Cultural sensitivity
  • Flexible and approachable
  • Open listening, high empathy capacity
  • Proactive and solution oriented.
  • High degree of discretion and respect of confidentiality

Terms of employment

  • A tripartite internship agreement is mandatory
  • Internship from 6 to 12 months, 100% (according to internship agreement)
  • Based in Geneva
  • Start date : ASAP
  • Gross monthly remuneration 2’000.- CHF

How to apply

Please send a CV (2 pages maximum) and a cover letter (1 page maximum).

Closing date for applications is July 31st, 2022

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All applications will be treated with strict confidentiality.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

At MSF, we are committed to an inclusive culture that encourages and supports the diverse voices of our staff members. We strive to create workplaces where teams of people with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, perspectives, ideas and experiences work together for the social mission of MSF to create better outcomes for our patients and the communities we work with.

We welcome applications from individuals of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, races, background, religions, beliefs, ability status, and all other diversity characteristics.

MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of discrimination or harassment, including sexual harassment. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo reference checks.


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