The Clinical Officer will be a member of the Emergency Surveillance team of the MSF-Spain Mission. When deemed necessary, and whenever an emergency occurs in the country for which a response from MSF is requested, he will take the leadership in the supervision of the medical aspects of emergency response actions.
When not engaged in emergency response, the Flying Clinical Officer will be assigned to any of the regular duty stations of MSF-Spain in Ethiopia (Addis Abeba, Gambella, Dolo Ado) and engaged in support of technical logistics activities.
Main duties of the Flying Clinical Officer will be:
Supervise and monitor all the medical activities assigned under his/her responsibility according to MSF policies and guidelines.
Support plan and supervise implementation of all medical aspects of emergency response activities, including management of the medical team, in different field locations in the country.
Coaching and supporting medical activities of ESS project and functional support to projects medical employees.
• Support planning and undertake supervision of medical aspects of emergency medical interventions undertaken by MSF-Spain in the country
• Supporting emergency response actions by carrying out the tasks associated to his/her speciality and taking the leadership of the medical team in charge of the medical response.
• Carry out the functions and tasks associated to his/her speciality, whenever required or needed, in order to optimize the resources, contributing with his/her knowledge and experience.
• Ensuring the implementation and standardization of MSF clinical policies, tools, and hygiene protocols in order to minimize clinical risks and to guarantee the quality of patient care management. Promoting and maintaining confidentiality regarding all patient cases and records
• Implementing diagnosis, prescription and prevention procedures that fall under the scope of his/her competencies applying medical knowledge, asking appropriate questions to patients and following protocols in force as well as using laboratory services when necessary, in order to ensure a correct implementation of the medical treatments and to refer patients when appropriate.
• Participating in the planning and supervision, 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.
• In cases of emergency, carrying out first aid care and treatment according to protocols in order to reduce mortality rates
• Recording in the individual patient’s card and registration books, all performed medical activities (drugs prescribed, lab results, vaccination status, epidemiological activity, doses, etc.) keeping data traceability in order to ensure patients treatment continuity.
• When requested, taking the lead on medical aspects, rapid assessments to be conducted in the country in response to different alerts: epidemics, displacement of population, malnutrition and other emergencies
• Participating in data collection, management and reporting when required
• Knowing and implementing Patient Therapeutic Education (PTE), i.e. keeping contact with all patients, providing them information regarding their health state and responding to their questions.
Knowing and promoting the proper application of Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) Kit and Sexually Gender Based Violence (SGBV) protocol.