Medical Waste Management Focal (COVID - 19 Response)
Job Description
Title: Medical Waste Management Focal (COVID - 19 Response)
Company Name: Relief International
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Occupational Health and Safety Specialists." These professionals are typically required to have at least a bachelor's degree/diploma in a scientific or technical field
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ The candidate will ensure that the proper waste disposal procedures are being followed by the facility staff. This includes identifying waste materials, training others on the proper safety guidelines to follow, and conducting risk assessments on hazardous materials. Waste management officer typically evaluate and coordinate storage and handling of hazardous waste. They might lead efforts to clean up contaminated soil or water. They might also have to compile reports of safety performance for their departments and present them to higher level management.
∎ Reporting to: Matron
∎ Department: Health
∎ Expected Start Date: ASAP
∎ Contract length: Up to December 31, 2020.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Prevent health-care waste from causing environmental pollution or adverse effects on human health.
∎ Ensure that health-care waste is adequately segregated and safely packed, especially in the case of sharps which should be packed in puncture-proof containers.
∎ Ensure that bags or containers of health-care waste are handled only by those officially licensed to transport and/or dispose of such waste.
∎ Ensure that a transfer note describing the waste is handed to the recipient when waste is transferred.
∎ Check for proof that the driver of the collection vehicle is aware of the procedures governing transport of hazardous goods. Such proof shall include but not limited to an authorization letter or a certificate indicating form of training in transportation of health care waste.
∎ If on-site treatment is impossible or uneconomical, cooled storage facilities should be provided and there should be a regular collection by a contractor who has suitable incineration facilities.
∎ When an injection is carried out at a patient's home, the practitioner is responsible for disposing of syringes, needles, and all other items used including incontinence pads and swabs.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Only females are allowed to apply
∎ One year of experience working in a similar position.
∎ Able to maintain records and manage data collection from the field.
∎ Good communication skills in local and Rohingya dialects.
∎ Must be able to read and write clearly.
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
