International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through healthcare training, disaster relief and recovery programs.
Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide. By offering training and healthcare to local populations and medical assistance to people at high risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated healthcare systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.
When catastrophe hits, International Medical Corps is often one of the first humanitarian aid organizations on the scene providing rapid and effective aid that saves lives, reduces suffering, and promotes self-reliance.
International Medical Corps provides safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable and patient centered care; offers needs-based response according to the context and type of sudden onset disaster (SOD) and/or outbreak in the affected US region, state, or territory; ensures it is accessible to all sections of the population affected by the disaster or emergency, particularly the most vulnerable; and treats patients in a medically ethical manner.
International Medical Corps is accountable to patients and communities, local health system actors and service providers, governmental entities, and its organization and donors. International Medical Corps commits to a coordinated response under the national, state, and local emergency management authorities.
Selected personnel are on standby to deploy to a crisis within 48 hours. Personnel may deploy to new areas of operation or lend support to International Medical Corps teams already on the ground. International Medical Corps maintains a roster of volunteers and staff who have completed pre-deployment paperwork, orientation and training. The roster is updated on a regular basis. Through this expression of interest, applicants maintain professional profiles with International Medical Corps, so that information is complete and readily available for an emergency response deployment.
This position will support International Medical Corps’ emergency response delivering services to disaster-affected populations in US states and territories only.
SUMMARY: The Volunteer, MH Clinician (domestic) will be responsible for providing mental health and psychosocial support services in a community-based and/or clinic setting. They will be responsible for providing crisis interventions and brief behavioral health counseling, including adult, adolescent and pediatric services, for both chronic and acute conditions. They are expected to triage patients, ensure smooth patient flow, provide crisis intervention and stabilization for patients and staff, clinical behavioral health care, assist with referrals as needed and provide behavioral health, health education and hygiene promotion.
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International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through healthcare training, disaster relief and recovery programs.
Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide. By offering training and healthcare to local populations and medical assistance to people at high risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated healthcare systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.
When catastrophe hits, International Medical Corps is often one of the first humanitarian aid organizations on the scene providing rapid and effective aid that saves…
Please apply at the following website: https://internationalmedicalcorps.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/2879
Please apply at the following website: https://internationalmedicalcorps.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/2879