Internal Medicine Specialist (COVID - 19 Response)

Job Description

Title: Internal Medicine Specialist (COVID - 19 Response)

Company Name: Relief International

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Degree in Medicine from a recognized institution

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 10 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Duty Station: Ukhiya, Bangladesh
∎ Report To: Hospital Program Team Leader
∎ Expected Start Date: At Earliest
∎ Contract length: Six Months (With possibility of Extension subject to funding, program needs and performance of incumbent)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Ensure that clinical activities and ambulance services are implemented and running smoothly, including pharmacy and laboratory services.
∎ Review clinical activities at the hospital on a continuous basis and ensure provision of services is in line with overall goals and objectives of the program.
∎ Participate actively in hospital assessments including verification of different reports in different departments of the hospital.
∎ Play a key supportive role during technical health facility supervision visits by senior management, donors and third-party monitoring teams.
∎ Inspect facilities and recommend building or equipment modifications to the Field Coordinator and Health Manager to ensure that activities are being implemented appropriately and as per the required hygiene and safety standards
∎ Assuming responsibility for overall clinical care at the hospital
∎ Ensuring that clinical management and infection prevention and control procedures are being applied by clinical staff according to a strict protocol.
∎ Providing direct patient care for complicated cases and advice on special cases
∎ Providing on the job training to clinical staff
∎ Liaising with key treatment partners (WHO, UNHCR) to ensure proper coordination and to apply best practices
∎ The hiring and training of clinical national staff, with the assistance of PM.
∎ As required by Hospital Team Leader represent RI at both internal and external coordination meetings to gather information and to inform RI activities
∎ This position will enter red zone of the facility
∎ Staff Supervision & Development
∎ Directly supervise RI project's clinical staff
∎ Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing oversight and guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.
∎ If/as required, identify staff performance issues and work with Human Resources to document and address these in accordance with the National Staff Employment Policies

Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 10 years of progressive experience in hands-on clinical work in recognized health facilities.
∎ Experience in in a conflict setting and in the Middle East or Asia is highly desirable
∎ High professional discipline and moral integrity, able to work under stress as the situation may dictate.
∎ Must be willing to spend time providing direct clinical care to patients in the hospital.

Application Deadline: April 11, 2020

Company Information:
∎ Relief International
∎ Business : Relief International, hedquatered in USA, is a leading international non government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.

Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact.

Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International has been working in Bangladesh since 2004. The Bangladesh portfolio of Relief International has strong focus on emergency response, economic opportunity and livelihoods rebuilding, traficking in persons, sustainable tourism, human rights and protection, refugee crisis response and public health. RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar. RI currently employs over 1000 local and international staffs in Bangladesh.

Relief International is currently implementing large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID/OFDA, EU ECHO.
For more information on Relief International: www.ri.org

Category: Medical/Pharma