Health Referent - Paediatrician

Overview

Utilize your health expertise to enhance humanitarian health response.

You have:

• Significant experience in humanitarian health responses.
• Ability to provide clinical and technical health expertise.
• Experience in training and capacity building.
• Experience in policy design and development.
• Flexibility in responding to urgent requests and working independently.

Can you use your health expertise to shape our humanitarian health response?

• Hours: Zero hours contract with paid sessions as required up to 1 session per week

• Remuneration: pro rata of £30,000 - £45,000 gross annual (dependent on experience)

• Duration: Open – ended

• Location: Home-working, with some travel to Manchester UK and potential to undertake deployed overseas roles

UK-Med is a humanitarian NGO that has been responding to disasters for thirty years. We train medical teams, both in the UK and worldwide, so they are ready to respond when epidemics, conflict and natural disasters hit. When Ebola struck West Africa in 2014 we recruited and trained UK doctors and nurses who helped local medical teams and other NGOs to bring the outbreak under control. We are core partners, providing the clinical component of the UK Emergency Medical Team (UK EMT) in line with WHO standards.

We are seeking a small number of health professionals to join us as part-time Health Referents to build on the health expertise in our core team. Our core Health Team has significant expertise in humanitarian healthcare, and has always brought in additional expert support through consultancies when required. Following a period of significant growth, we are looking to bring specific expertise into the core team on an ongoing basis through a group of part-time Health Referents.

Our Health Referents will bring specific technical expertise in a variety to health fields to ensure that UK-Med’s programme design and implementation remains in line with current best practice.

As a Health Referent, you will provide clinical / technical health expertise and advice, contributing to our work through:

Advising and guiding our health teams in humanitarian contexts in their planning and work Helping design SoPs, policies and guidance documents for your field of expertise Developing capacity building interventions (e.g. training sessions, online learning packages, coaching) to develop skills of UK-Med personnel and our partners (e.g. Ministry of Health staff, other NGOs) Helping to ensure we have the right people working in humanitarian responses by shaping role descriptions, person specifications, selection interview questions and model answers Working on programme design and proposal preparation for work linked to your expertise Contribution to quality assurance and after action reviews of health activities Our ideal candidates will be a highly skilled health professionals with significant experience of humanitarian health responses. You will be flexible enough to respond to urgent requests, and able to deliver against longer-term objectives working independently with minimal guidance.

We offer competitive remuneration and benefits along with a friendly working environment and the opportunity to make a real difference through your work.

How to apply

We strongly recommend that you read the Candidate Information Pack - Paediatrician - July 2024 before applying for this role.

To apply, please submit a current CV and a supporting letter (2 pages) through our online jobs portal.

Your covering letter must include a detailed explanation of your suitability for this post with specific reference to the criteria in the person specification

Applications must be submitted no later than Monday 12 August 2024

Please note, we are open to proposals to work from home – if proposing to work from outside the UK you will need to be have no more than 2 hours’ time

UK-Med is committed to safeguarding of our personnel and beneficiaries and has a zero-tolerance approach to sexual exploitation and abuse. We conduct thorough vetting before any appointment is confirmed.

UK-Med is committed to the principles of diversity, equality, and inclusion. We strive to provide an inclusive and supportive environment where employees feel respected and supported to be able to fulfil their potential.

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