Job

Médecins Sans Frontières SA

REGISTERED COUNSELLOR

📍 Johannesburg, South Africa 🏷 Governance & Public Policy 🗓 Posted 13 Aug 2026
  • Provide professional psychosocial and counselling support to patients and communities affected by conflict, displacement, violence, epidemics and humanitarian crises within MSF field projects
  • Deliver individual and group counselling interventions, conducting psychosocial assessments and identifying patients requiring additional support or specialist referral
  • Lead community outreach and psychosocial support activities, providing health education and working with community health workers to reduce mental health stigma
  • Coordinate patient care across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring appropriate assessment, counselling, referral and follow-up within culturally appropriate frameworks
  • Foster collaborative relationships with medical, mental health and social support staff to sustain continuity of care and patient-centred mental health services

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