Palliative Care Assistant
Job Description
Title: Palliative Care Assistant
Company Name: Relief International
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ DMF, BMDC recognized
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ The Palliative Care Assistant is responsible to ensure providing end of life care and support to patients suffering from terminal illness such as cancer or other life-limiting health conditions,
∎ Managing pain and other distressing symptoms, will offer emotional, spiritual and psychological support for the patient, family and friends under supervision of Palliative Care Specialist.
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∎ Duty Station: Ukhiya Specialized Hospital, Ukhiya, Bangladesh
∎ Report To: Palliative Care Specialist
∎ Expected Start Date: At Earliest
∎ Contract length: Up to December 31, 2022 (With possibility of Extension subject to funding, program needs and performance of incumbent)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Specific responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
∎ Under the guidance of the Palliative Care Specialist, Palliative Care Assistant will be responsible for Providing Services as follows:
∎ Assist in examination and treatment of patients under the direction of a physician.
∎ Patient history taking and taking vital signs (i.e., pulse rate, temperature, blood pressure, weight and height) and record information on patients' charts.
∎ Has knowledge of commonly - used concepts, practices and procedures within a particular field.
∎ Counsel patients by transmitting physician's orders and questions.
∎ Work with a patient and his or her family to identify, control or alleviate physical and emotional discomfort and other symptoms that often accompany serious health condition.
∎ Will focus their time on providing expert management of patient's symptoms under supervision of palliative care specialist.
∎ To link patients, caregivers and family members to available support groups and other services.
∎ Improve access to helpful information so patients can make well-informed, confident decisions about their care.
∎ Managing pain control, alleviation of psychosocial distress, provide support for spiritual concerns and meet the practical needs of the patient throughout the continuum of health care.
∎ Improving of patients and his or her family access to information that can help them to understand the patients' condition.
∎ Assess the urgency and severity of presenting problems through history taking, examination and investigation.
∎ 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 and others
∎ Monitor triage, early recognition and source control.
∎ Supervise instrument processing.
∎ Monitor waste management in the hospital.
∎ Contribute in ensuring the safeguarding in the organization
Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Experience in health related programs.
∎ 1-2 years of experience of working in palliative care department will get the preference.
∎ Knowledge and experience with working in the field, public health sector and in medical emergencies. Experience with refugee health will be an added advantage.
∎ 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 & excellent interpersonal skills.
∎ Excellent interpersonal skill
∎ Ability to communicate clearly and sensitively in written and spoken English.
∎ Enthusiasm to learn.
∎ Optimistic and friendly.
∎ Flexibility.
Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ 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
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 3 Mar 2022
Company Information:
∎ 22 Feb 2022
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: Apt- D2, House- 39 (Sheltech Sunshine), Road-37, Gulshan-2, Dhaka- 1212 I Bangladesh.
∎ 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 132 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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