{"id":100549,"date":"2026-07-10T19:57:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/uncategorized\/psychiatrist\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T19:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:57:39","slug":"psychiatrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/jobs\/nairobi\/psychiatrist\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychiatrist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\/\", \"@type\": \"JobPosting\", \"title\": \"Psychiatrist\", \"description\": \"Responsibilities\\nTrain and supervise\u00a0general health staff in the diagnosis and treatment of priority mental health conditions according to MSF guidelines and WHO\u2019s mhGAP approach.\\nProvide care\u00a0for patients suffering from psychiatric disorders, paying special attention to the cultural context.\\nProvide technical support\u00a0to MSF\u2019s psychologists and counsellors and ensure a multidisciplinary approach to patient care is implemented.\\nEnsure availability\u00a0of psychotropic medications from the MSF standard drug list in the project.\\nEnsure adequate data collection\u00a0for monitoring purposes.\\nEvaluate psychiatric services\u00a0available in-country, including possibilities for psychiatric hospitalization, and the quality of these services.\\nRequirements\\nDegree in Psychiatry, or a degree in Medicine and specialization in Psychiatry in progress with at least 6 semesters validated.\\nValid and up-to-date licence to practise or certificate of good standing.\\n2 years\u2019 experience working in adult psychiatry.\\nRecent clinical experience at least six months within the last 24 months.\\nExperience working with vulnerable populations.\\nExperience in training, coaching, and supervision.\\nIT skills Excel, Word, PowerPoint for data and team management.\\nFluency in English and\/or French.\\nAvailability for at least six months. Three-month assignments may be possible depending on operational requirements, but are less frequent.\", \"datePosted\": \"2026-07-09\", \"hiringOrganization\": {\"@type\": \"Organization\", \"name\": \"Medecins Sans Frontieres MSF\"}, \"jobLocation\": {\"@type\": \"Place\", \"address\": {\"@type\": \"PostalAddress\", \"addressLocality\": \"Nairobi\", \"addressCountry\": \"KE\"}}, \"directApply\": true, \"validThrough\": \"2026-07-23T23:59:59\", \"employmentType\": \"FULL_TIME\"}<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Company:<\/strong> Medecins Sans Frontieres MSF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Nairobi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Type:<\/strong> Full Time<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apply Before:<\/strong> 2026-07-23<\/p>\n<h3>Job Description<\/h3>\n<p>Responsibilities<br \/>Train and supervise\u00a0general health staff in the diagnosis and treatment of priority mental health conditions according to MSF guidelines and WHO\u2019s mhGAP approach.<br \/>Provide care\u00a0for patients suffering from psychiatric disorders, paying special attention to the cultural context.<br \/>Provide technical support\u00a0to MSF\u2019s psychologists and counsellors and ensure a multidisciplinary approach to patient care is implemented.<br \/>Ensure availability\u00a0of psychotropic medications from the MSF standard drug list in the project.<br \/>Ensure adequate data collection\u00a0for monitoring purposes.<br \/>Evaluate psychiatric services\u00a0available in-country, including possibilities for psychiatric hospitalization, and the quality of these services.<br \/>Requirements<br \/>Degree in Psychiatry, or a degree in Medicine and specialization in Psychiatry in progress with at least 6 semesters validated.<br \/>Valid and up-to-date licence to practise or certificate of good standing.<br \/>2 years\u2019 experience working in adult psychiatry.<br \/>Recent clinical experience at least six months within the last 24 months.<br \/>Experience working with vulnerable populations.<br \/>Experience in training, coaching, and supervision.<br \/>IT skills Excel, Word, PowerPoint for data and team management.<br \/>Fluency in English and\/or French.<br \/>Availability for at least six months. Three-month assignments may be possible depending on operational requirements, but are less frequent.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Apply<\/h3>\n<p>Interested and qualified? Go to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on msf.or.ke to apply<br \/>Build your CV for free. Download in different templates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjobmag.co.ke\/apply-now\/1273917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;padding:10px 20px;background:#2271b1;color:#fff;text-decoration:none;border-radius:4px;\">Apply Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Source: MyJobMag<\/small><\/p>\n<p><!-- job-expiry: 2026-07-23 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company: Medecins Sans Frontieres MSF Location: Nairobi Job Type: Full Time Apply Before: 2026-07-23 Job Description ResponsibilitiesTrain and supervise\u00a0general health staff in the diagnosis and treatment of priority mental health conditions according to MSF guidelines and WHO\u2019s mhGAP approach.Provide care\u00a0for patients suffering from psychiatric disorders, paying special attention to the cultural context.Provide technical support\u00a0to MSF\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1408,1409],"tags":[1425,1413,1474,1412],"class_list":["post-100549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs","category-nairobi","tag-full-time","tag-job-listing","tag-medecins-sans-frontieres-msf","tag-myjobmag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}