The Mental Health Hub (mHub-Rwanda) is a global mental health organization headquartered in Berlin and New York that helps people achieve mental and emotional wellbeing. Through our custom wellbeing services and products, including employee wellbeing programs, counseling services, community wellness programs, and professional trainings, we deliver high quality services to our clients from across the African continent. In Kigali, we have a registered mental health clinic.
We are currently recruiting for a clinic director in the role of Director of Mental Health Services, based at our Rwanda office in Kigali.
About the position
The successful candidate will be responsible to manage the mental health clinic, including developing, planning and implementing strategies for clinic growth; staff training and support; and offering wellbeing services (workshops, wellness classes and trainings), online and onsite, to mHub employee wellbeing program clients.
Primary tasks and responsibilities for this position include:
- Ensuring compliance of the mental health clinic with laws, rules and regulations. This includes, amonth others, leading the clinic’s license renewal and preparing all relevant policies and plans.
- Management of the clinic, including developing, planning, and implementing strategies for clinic growth, marketing and networking, contract negotiations, staff training and support, and support in operations management, among others
- Lead mHub clinician: Facilitate therapy sessions with the provision of initial diagnostic, evaluations, and intake assessments; create, maintain, and submit accurate records and documents; and make appropriate referrals.
- Lead and support all members of the clinical staff
- Build and maintain community relationships and identify projects for mHub clinic and mHub Rwanda & Global
- Conduct wellbeing audit focus group discussion interviews with client staff and managers and report findings to mHub CEO for inclusion in audit reports
- mHub custom EWP and training product and content research, development, edits, and improvements
- Conduct online and onsite mHub trainings, workshops and wellbeing retreats
- Support mHub CEO with the management and coordination of staff for all mHub online and onsite activities
Required skills and competencies
Education and experience
- Significant work experience in Rwanda in mental health and wellbeing
- Experience in operations of a mental mental health clinic will be an advantage
- Minimum of 5 years’ work experience as a clinician
- Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent)
- Registered as a clinician in Rwanda (valid license)
Skills
- Professional written and spoken English and Kinyarwanda (French will be an advantage)
- Excellent communication and listening skills
- Report-writing skills
- Proficient computer and online internet skills: Microsoft Office (Power Point, Teams,Word, Excel)
Character & personality:
- Must be able to work well independently as well as in a team
- Able to work under limited supervision
- Professional and trustworthy
- Passion for building and maintaining client relationships
- Plenty of drive, initiative, and motivation
How to apply
If you are interested, please send us your CV and motivation letter to hr@mental-health-hub.org
Deadline to apply: 31st August 2023.
Only selected candidates will be contacted.
