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.
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.
Main objectives and responsibilities of the position
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 for mentally ill /psychiatric patients.
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
Participate in training gap identification, training mid-level health staffs on mental health /other fields.
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, compiling and reporting when required.
Involve actively in community based health activities ( health education, disease surveillance and mass campaign activities (planning, implementing and M & E).
Provide clinical consultation and treatment for national staffs.
Provide follow up care and treatments for chronic patients.. Including patients with mental health problem.
Participate actively in daily, weekly, monthly health staff meetings.
Performs other related activities given by immediate supervisor
Consult psychiatric patients, Provide follow up in psychiatric centre and IPD.
Participate in community based mental health activities, screening, health education, campaigns etc.
Mental health knowledge, experience in psychiatric clinic /hospital. Works in NGOs in mental health area
Training on mental health, psychiatric case management, work experience at hospital level.
Remuneration and Benefits:
Starting gross salary: 9,480 ETB/month
Medical Coverage: 100%
Place of work: Shire, Hitsatse, Shimelba Refugees camps, Tigray Regional Terms of employment: 6 months with possibility of extension Number of required: 3 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: May 5th 2015
Job Requirement
Essential
health officer Degree and professional license.
Essential
previous clinical supervision experience of at least one year