Consultant: Development of SOPs and Training Materials for Acute and Severe Mental Health Presentations
Médecins Sans Frontières · Apply by October 26, 2026
About this role
1. Background Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent medical humanitarian organisation providing emergency aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, natural disasters, and exclusion from healthcare. The Manson Unit is a multi-disciplinary medical team within MSF UK that works to improve the quality of MSF medical programmes worldwide, helping ensure patients receive the best possible care. Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) is part of most MSF operations, and demand for these services has increased steadily across humanitarian settings in recent years. A key objective of MSF’s new MHPSS strategy is to strengthen the capacity of country teams to provide safe, dignified, and appropriate care for people presenting with acute and severe mental health conditions across all points of care. MSF already has useful guidance, protocols, country-level tools, and training materials on initial assessment and management. However, these resources need to be consolidated, structured, and operationalised into a practical set of standard operating procedures (SOPs), with complementary case-based training materials for medical and mental health staff. The…