Paramedic-Mobile Medical Team.
Vacancies: N/A.
Application Deadline : May 05, 2018.
Source : এখানে Bdjobs (22 April , 2018).
Job Context:
- Country: Bangladesh
- Title: Nurse/Paramedic- Mobile Medical Teams
- Department: Health Programs
- Start Date: 1st April, 2018
- Location: Cox Bazar
- Reports to: MMT Team Lead
- Length: 6 months with possibility of extension
- Pay: To be negotiated
Job Description / Responsibility:
- Clinical care
- Provide direct clinical care, working closely with the other mobile team clinical staff to ensure the delivery of high quality emergency and primary healthcare services.
- Triage, screening and assessment of patients.
- Provision of inpatient and outpatient treatment, ensuring medications are given to patients as prescribed by the Medical Doctor.
- Delivery of hygiene promotion, health education and patient/care giver counselling.
- Ensure adherence to infection prevention and control measures.
- Ensure accurate recording of information in the clinic registers, and timely completion of summary reports.
- Ensure clinic areas are appropriately stocked with essential equipment and supplies.
- Ensure patient confidentiality is respected, and that all consultations are conducted in a dignified and respectful manner.
- Staff Supervision & Development
- Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and provide guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.
- Provide nursing/medical support and mentorship to other mobile medical team staff, providing on-the-job training where needed.
- Project Management
- Implement outreach activities with the rest of the team to access "hard to reach‟ and vulnerable beneficiaries to increase service utilization.
- When available work with and support community volunteers to provide health promotion, community mobilization and awareness raising.
- Ensure regular inventory and consumption tracking of medical drugs and supplies.
- Work with relevant staff to ensure prompt requesting of medical drugs and supplies.
- Coordination & Representation
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with local communities, local government agencies and other implementing partners.
- Monitoring & Reporting
- Ensure all patient consultations are documented and patient records completed.
- Submit daily reports in a timely manner.
- Other Duties
- Consistently and proactively monitor/assess the safety and security of the team; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to IRC management and liaising with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for IRC programs.
- Professional Standards:
- All IRC staff are required to adhere to THE IRC Way Standards for Professional Conduct and the IRC country employment policies.
- Work Environment:
- The Mobile Medical Team will be working in various locations within the Rohingya Refugee Camp in the Ukhia district and will be working in open environments and required to set up a mobile work station.
- Mobile Medical Teams will deploy to affected areas after natural disasters such as floods, landslides and cyclones; therefore work environments will change frequently.
- Mobile Medical Teams may be required to carry supplies in backpacks, walk to affected areas and set up work stations.
Job Nature: Contractual.
Educational Requirements: Qualified Nurse with a Nursing diploma/certificate or Qualified Paramedic with Paramedic diploma/certificate.
Experience Requirements: At least 2 year(s).
Job Requirements:
- Registered with local Nursing/Paramedic Council.
- At least 2 years clinical Nursing/Paramedic experience in emergency and primary healthcare.
- Previous experience and training in sexual gender-based violence and clinical care for sexual assault survivors (desirable)
- Ability to lead, train, supervise and facilitate other medical staff and community health workers in their respective tasks.
- Ability and flexibility to understand the cultural and political environment.
- Skills to provide sensitive and appropriate medical counselling.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Must be a team player with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure in a stressful environment, displaying patience, compassion and diplomacy.
- Ability to be innovative, flexible, adaptive, and willingness to work in challenging situations.
- Ability to live in challenging conditions and ability to work under difficult, high pressure situations.
- Ability to speak in English and Bangla; Chittagong speakers would be added as an extra qualification.
- Employees will be required to live in Cox Bazar for the duration of their contract.
Job Location: Cox's Bazar.
Apply Instructions:
Send your CV to HRIRC.Bangladesh@rescue.org
All Interested Candidates Should send their CV and cover letter with the subject line: MMT Nurse /Paramedic Position
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.