Health Officer

Médecins Sans Frontières (also known as Doctors without Borders or MSF) is a private, non-profit, international humanitarian medical organization that intervenes in emergencies and crisis situations to relieve human suffering resulting from unmet medical needs. MSF observes strict neutrality with respect to politics and provides its assistance without discriminating on the basis of race, religion, ideology, or political affiliation. MSF’s members are required to respect humanitarian principles and principles of medical ethics at all times.

MSF-Holland is looking for: Health Officer

Place of work: Abdurafi Terms of employment:  6 months contract with a possibility of extension Remuneration and Benefits: –          Starting gross salary: 13, 615 –          Medical Coverage 100% Deadline for application: December 05,2015

 Main purpose:

Ensure medical consultations and treatment for patients, within the scope of his/her medical competencies. In accordance to the context, MSF protocols, procedures and the universal hygiene standards

Accountabilities:

 ·         Ensure the implementation and standardization of MSF clinical policies, tools, and hygiene protocols in order to minimize clinical risks and to granting quality of patient case management.

·         Management of referral for patients with conditions falling beyond his competencies and/or the competencies of the MSF structure (working closely with the doctors, and other medical departments in the project if any).

·         Promote and maintain confidentiality regarding all patient cases and records.

·         Keep the patient and/or his/her family informed about the illness and provide appropriate explanations about the treatment to follow, checking they have understood.

·         Follow up the evolution of the hospitalized/IDP patients, through daily visits , consultations and examinations, prescribing the necessary treatment following MSF protocols, deciding whether they can be discharged or transferred to other departments – in collaboration with the medical team- and informing their family about the patient’s evolution.

·         Implement diagnose, prescription and prevention procedures.

·         Participate in the planning and supervising, in close coordination with other supervisors, the HR processes (sizing, staff shifts, recruitment, training, evaluation, development and communication) of the team in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required, improve people triage capabilities, their motivation and commitment and their active participation in teaching the targeted population on therapeutic and preventive protocols.

·         Carry out first aid care and treatment according to protocols in case of an emergency in order to reduce mortality rates

·         Record in individual patient’s card and registration books all medical activities (drugs prescribed, lab results, vaccination status, epidemiological activity, doses, etc) performed keeping data traceability in order to ensure patients treatment continuity.

·         Participate in data collecting and reporting when required

Specificities:

 ·         Know and implement Patient Therapeutic Education (PTE), i.e. keeping contact with all patients, providing them information regarding their health state and responding to their questions.

·         Know and promote the proper application of Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) Kit and Sexually Gender Based Violence (SGBV) protocol.

General

• The responsibilities mentioned above are not exhaustive and other work can be required according to the needs of the mission.


• Mobility is requested from MSF staff, including short term assignments from their usual place of work.


• Part of any MSF-employee responsibilities is the attendance of trainings as per the requirements of the organization.


• The job description can be modified according to the evolution of the work.

Requirements:

Education: Essential health officer Degree and professional license.

Experience: Essential previous clinical supervision as Health officer at least for two years

Language: Fluent in English and Amharic.

Knowledge: Essential computer literacy (word, excel)

Competences:

·         Good inter-personal, cross-cultural communication skills.

·         Ability to reflect the principles and code of conduct of MSF.

Energetic, flexible, willing and able to work and live in hardship conditions in a remote and hot area of Ethiopia.