IPC Focal (COVID - 19 Response)
Job Description
Title: IPC Focal (COVID - 19 Response)
Company Name: Relief International
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)
Employment Status: Full-time, Part-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ A clinical background (Nurse, Midwife, Doctor)
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ To implement a comprehensive program to support Infection Prevention and Control (IPC). The candidate will undertake IPC trainings and intensive supervision and monitoring in the facilities.
∎ Reporting to: Medical in Charge
∎ Department: Health
∎ Expected Start Date: ASAP
∎ Contract length: Up to December 31, 2020.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ The incumbent will work under the supervision of the medical in charge to provide support to the whole team :
∎ Manage the IPC team with particular emphasis on capacity building of staff through mentoring, training, and ensuring that all staff have up-to-date.
∎ Identify staff needs, ensuring that job descriptions are developed and well understood, properly qualified staff are recruited and inducted and trained.
∎ Be aware of, understand, comply with and actively promote all of Concern s policies and procedures and ensure all IPC team members are also aware of, understand and comply with these policies and procedures.
∎ Ensure that work within the operation is planned and organized in a way which will meet the organization s needs in the most cost effective manner possible; ensuring that team members are given appropriate workloads and are working efficiently.
∎ Identify and take appropriate and timely action to fill resource gaps (create new roles or launch timely recruitment to replace a leaver).
∎ Ensure that all staff are aware of and comply with all of Concern s policies and procedures,
Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ 2 years of experience (at least 2 years of strong clinical/ acute care background)
∎ Certification in Infection Control (CIC) is desirable.
∎ Committed individual with the experience and desire to develop and implement IPC approaches, training, etc.
∎ Demonstrated experience in training and/or mentoring, excellent facilitation skills and ability to lead training seminars and exercises with a working knowledge of IPC practice and theory
∎ Knowledge and experience in patient care practices including: disinfection, sterilization.
∎ Demonstrated experience in management of programs, personnel and working with multiple partners and stakeholders
∎ Strong computer skills
Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays
∎ Salary Review: Yearly
∎ Two festival bonuses in a year equivalent to one basic salary.
∎ Severance (8.33% of the monthly basic salary) goes with the monthly release of the salary.
Application Deadline: April 11, 2020
Company Information:
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: House: 451 , Road: 8 West, DOHS Baridhara, Dhaka-1206; Head Quarter: 5455 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1280 Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
∎ Web : www.ri.org
∎ 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: NGO/Development
