Referral Assistant

Job Description

Title: Referral Assistant

Company Name: International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf)

Employment Status: Full-time, Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Degree in any discipline

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Referral Assistant will be mainly responsible for the patient referral from the PHCC to different facilities. S/He will accompany the critical patient from PHCC to the secondary health care center or other facilities.
∎ Department/ Program: Health
∎ Work Location: IRC-Bangladesh, Shamlapur PHCC in Camp 23
∎ Line Manager: Clinical Supervisor

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Patient referral to different facilities based on need
∎ Accompany the critical patient to the referred facility
∎ Help register in documentation of patients
∎ Help in awareness building activities
∎ Keep regular communication with the patients and ensure availability in term of emergency in camp
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∎ Other Duties:
∎ Consistently and dedicatedly monitor/assess the safety and security of field teams, promptly reporting concerns or incidents to Supervisor/IRC management and liaising with other external parties as required to maintain/improve the security environment
∎ Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs

Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year of similar experience in health or other facility either with an NGO or government body
∎ Ability and flexibility to understand the cultural and political environment and to work well with the local health representatives
∎ Previous experience of working with a multi-disciplinary team in a cross-cultural setting
∎ Skilled in electronic device operation (Tablet, smart phone) will be preferable
∎ Required to be team oriented with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure in a stressful environment, displaying patience, compassion and diplomacy
∎ Creative, flexible, and adaptive
∎ Ability to live in challenging conditions and ability to work under difficult, high pressure situations

Salary: Tk. 25725 (Monthly)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Insurance, Gratuity
∎ 2 bonuses in a year equivalent to two basic salaries

Application Deadline: 7 Jul 2020

Company Information:
∎ 1 Jul 2020
∎ International Rescue Committee (IRC)
∎ Address : Apartment A4, 4th Floor, Navana Miru, House 4, Road 96, Gulshan 2, Dhaka
∎ Web : https://www.rescue.org/
∎ Business : The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future. In more than 40 countries and in 26 U.S. cities, our dedicated teams provide clean water, shelter, health care, education, protection and empowerment support to refugees and displaced people. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) Founded in 1933. David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, is a former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom.

Category: NGO/Development