Employer:International Medical Corps
Location:Central African Republic
Essential Job Duties/Scope of Work:
International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to
saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs.
Established
in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is
a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its
mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions
and related activities that build local capacity in underserved
communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local
populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with
the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations,
International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems
and helps bring them back to self-reliance.
International Medical
Corps has been providing emergency medical, nutritional as well
protection assistance to Sudanese refugees and local host conflict
affected people in Haute-Kotto and Vakaga region since 2007. Most
recently in response to the renewed conflict in the country,
International Medical Corps has expanded programming to provide
assistance to conflict-affected populations in the northwest of the
country. While providing basic primary health care services to the
beneficiaries, International Medical Corps also focuses on capacity
building of existing human resources, in order to deliver and take
ownership of health, nutrition and protection programs implemented by
International Medical Corps, thus assuring the sustainability of the
health program for the coming years.
Recently, International Medical
Corps has been awarded funds under the Bekou fund (EU trust fund) to
work in collaboration with the European Union and CAR Ministry of Health
to strengthen the health system in the northeast provinces of Vakaga
and Haute Kotto. This program will build off of emergency activities in
the prefectures and assist with the CAR MOH transitional plan for
development.
JOB SUMMARY:
The nurse will be
responsible for health facility supervisions; on-the-job training of
nurses cares providers and community volunteers, MOH staff, and national
staff nurses, and will ensure proper implementation of all health
services as per medical doctor recommendations.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Support
provision of patient care in diagnostic and treatment in primary
healthcare facilities and provide direct care to patients in case of
absence of local health care providers.
Supervise and ensure that
patients have up to date patient cards and are accurately registered and
recorded for reporting and case management.
Monitor and supervise health care delivery by local counterparts and community health workers.
Ensure
and supervise on weekly basis disease surveillance and report on time
need of investigation of potential outbreak to medical doctor.
Supervise and ensure aggressive drug management (stockage, dispersment, warehousing, and reconciliation).
Oversee clinic staff and ward management and ensure adequate standard.
Strengthen
capacity of local health staff and MoH staffs - theory of disease
causation; treatment and prevention; disease diagnosis and drug
treatment of common diseases; community nutrition; basic sanitation,
universal precautions principles, IMCI, techniques for the
identification of the malnourished child, treatment and growth
monitoring and MCH.
Identify the educational needs, brief and supervise community volunteers on daily basis.
Qualifications:
• Minimum clinical nursing degree; preferably with a Master’s in Public Health.
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Experience in overseas programs relating to primary health care,
communicable diseases; experience in maternal and child health,
reproductive health, HIV/AIDS is useful.
• Minimum of 3 years of
experience required, of which 1 year should be of developing country
experience or resource deprived environment.
• Previous NGO experience.
• Will have excellent communications skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently.
• Extremely flexible, and have the ability to cope with stressful situations and frustrations.
• Ability to relate to and motivate local staff effectively.
• Creativity and the ability to work with limited resources.
• Must be able to speak French fluently.
• Ability to read, writes, analyse and interpret technical and non-technical information in English.
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