Medical Officer

Job Description

Title: Medical Officer

Company Name: Relief International

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Completed advance degree from an accredited academic institution in Medicine as a Medical Doctor

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Duty Station: Ukhiya-ITC
∎ Report To: Medical In - Charge
∎ Expected Start Date: At Earliest
∎ Contract length: Up to June 30, 2021

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Provide Primary Care Services as follows:
∎ Urgent medical services (including resuscitation, stabilization and assessment and diagnosis, treatment and referral as necessary
∎ Assess the urgency and severity of presenting problems through history taking, examination and investigation.
∎ Recommending and, where appropriate, undertaking treatment options and carrying out/referring for appropriate interventions and procedures, including but not limited to prescribing, counselling, psychological interventions, advising and education.
∎ Referral for diagnostic, therapeutic and support services as required.
∎ Provide timely clinical and culturally appropriate health services through :
∎ Ongoing health and development assessment and advice.
∎ Appropriate evidence based screening, risk assessment and early detection of illness, disease and disability.
∎ Working with public health providers in the prevention and control of communicable diseases for individuals and families.
∎ Improve patient health through :
∎ Health promotion to the practices' enrolled population, linking to public health programmes at a national, regional and local level and utilizing such programmes to target specific populations.
∎ Health education, counselling and information provision about how to improve health and prevent disease and interventions or treatments that treat risk factors.
∎ Clinical Notes: All patient consultations must be accurately recorded in the clinical patient notes within 24 hours of seeing the patient.
∎ Health & Safety:
∎ Comply with established health and safety policies with regard to handling of instruments, storage of drugs and disposal of sharps and other potentially dangerous equipment and substances. Comply with current NZ legislation.
∎ IPC Management
∎ Provide training on IPC, donning and doffing of PPE items.
∎ Monitor triage, early recognition and source control
∎ Supervise instrument processing
∎ Monitor waste management in the hospital.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ 2 - 5 years of experience for candidates holding a first level university degree
∎ Experience in health related programs
∎ Knowledge and experience with working in the field, public health sector and in medical emergencies. Experience with refugee health will be an added advantage.
∎ This position demands a dynamic individual with a demonstrated ability to achieve results in a demanding and fast paced environment.
∎ Ability to work effectively under pressure in hardship situations and harmoniously within a team of colleagues from varied cultures and professional backgrounds.
∎ Previous experience in development project at an international organization is an advantage.
∎ Ability to work independently under minimal supervision
∎ Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
∎ Two festival bonuses in a year equivalent to one Gross salary.
∎ Severance (8.33% of the monthly Gross salary) goes with the monthly release of the salary

Application Deadline: 8 Feb 2021

Company Information:
∎ 28 Jan 2021
∎ 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, headquartered 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 (RI) has been working in Bangladesh since 2004, implementing programs covering emergency response, health, economic opportunity, trafficking in persons, gender equality and youth empowerment. RI has been present in Cox’s Bazar since 2014 where it was implementing a trafficking in persons project in Ukhiya and Teknaf supporting old caseload refugees as well as host communities prior to the large-scale influx. Since 2017, RI has scaled up its operations in Cox’s Bazar to support the emergency response by providing integrated, multi-sectoral programming for refugee and host communities, covering health services, including a 144- bed COVID-19 Isolation and Treatment Center in Ukhiya, child protection, SGBV, complimentary food and livelihoods opportunities to support social cohesion. Relief International is currently implementing a large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, WFP, USAID.RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar.

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.


Category: NGO/Development

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Source: bdjobs.com

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