Mental Health Technical Advisor - Lebanon - Beirut - Service Agreement

The Mental Health Technical Advisor will provide independent technical advisory services twice per month, with each session lasting up to two hours and delivered either online or in person. The services are consultative in nature. The Mental Health Technical Advisor will not undertake line-management, staff-supervision, performance-management, or disciplinary responsibilities. The Advisor will not manage individual beneficiary cases or represent RI or assume responsibility for project implementation, reporting, indicators, or operational follow-up.

• Provide specialist clinical consultation to RI’s mental health team on complex and high-risk cases, including severe mental health conditions, suicide risk, psychiatric concerns, protection-related risks.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary case-consultation sessions based on anonymized case presentations to strengthen clinical reasoning, case formulation, risk assessment, treatment planning, referral decisions, and coordination among Case Managers, Clinical Psychologists, and Psychiatrist(s).
• Advise on evidence-based, ethical, confidential, patient-centered, and scope-appropriate clinical practice, including mhGAP-informed care, family-centered and recovery-oriented approaches, protection-sensitive referrals, and linkages between PHCC-based and specialized mental health services.
• Support the professional development of the mental health team through reflective practice, case-based learning, role plays, simulations, and agreed technical sessions on priority topics such as trauma-informed care, CBT, NET, case formulation, and clinical risk assessment.
• Submit a concise monthly advisory note to RI’s designated Mental Health focal point summarizing the support provided, key technical themes, identified learning needs, and recommended follow-up topics, without including identifiable beneficiary information.
• Maintain strict confidentiality and comply with professional ethics, informed-consent principles, safeguarding standards, and RI data-protection requirements. All case information presented for consultation must be anonymized.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Relief International is an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination on any basis. We actively seek out diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be collectively stronger and have sustained global impact. We are committed to providing an environment of respect and psychological safety where equal employment opportunities are available to all. We do not engage in or tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability (including HIV/AIDS status), marital status, military veteran status or any other protected group in the locations where we work.

Safeguarding & Ethics

Relief International (RI) is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, program participants or others, are treated with respect and dignity. We are committed to the core principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse. We will not tolerate child abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our team members. As part of our commitment to a safe and inclusive work environment, team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner, respect local laws and customs, and to adhere to RI’s Code of Conduct Policies and values at all times. Team members are required to complete mandatory Code of Conduct e-learning courses upon hire and on an annual basis.