Internist

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Job Description

Job Overview/Summary:

The internist will be based in the IRC Biret Armanaz facility. The internist will cover 5 working days each week. The position will be responsible for providing comprehensive medical care to adolescent and adult patient populations. Including diagnosis and treatment of chronic medical issues and referral of patients when needed.

Responsibilities:

- Responding to medical/health problems presented by patients including history taking, diagnosis, investigation, treatment, and referral as appropriate. - Request, perform, interpret, and analyze Lab tests to diagnose patients' conditions. Perform a patient physical examination. Analyze test data or images to inform diagnosis or treatment. - Diagnosing and prescribing treatments for disorders and diseases. Conducting routine check-ups on patients and providing technical guidance to the GPs deployed at the Biret Armanaz clinic in order to ensure good quality of primary health services provided to the beneficiaries. - Analyzes reports and findings of tests and examination and diagnoses condition of the patient. - Determines and prescribes medication, dosage and schedule gave the patient’s condition and allergies. - Discusses any side effects of medication with the patient. - Educating patients about disease prevention and detection. - Keeping up to date with current practices and innovations - Applied international case definition and disease outbreak criteria in the workplace. - Maintaining confidentiality and impartiality. - Organizing preventative medical programmers for individual patients. - Meeting targets set by the IRC and international criteria for specific treatments. - Keeping detailed records of all patients and the treatments they receive - Maintaining a portfolio of continuing professional development (CPD) activities - Maintaining and following high-quality IPC measures and protocols.

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in medicine. - Internal Specialty Certificate - Minimum 3 years of experience with two years in a similar role - NGOs experience is preferred.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

- A commitment to IRC’s mission, vision, values, and IRC Way – Professional Code of Conduct. - Credible written, presentation and verbal communication skills. - Validated sense of professional discretion, integrity, and ability to handle complex situations diplomatically and to effective resolution. - Excellent management and interpersonal skills and a solid ability to promote harmonious/cohesive teamwork, in a cross-cultural context. - Validated ability to plan long-term, organize priorities and work under administrative and programmatic pressures with detail orientation and professional patience. - Highly collaborative and resourceful; ability to establish positive working relationships with senior level management and all other partners to maximize cooperation and productivity. - Curiosity, a desire to continually learn and develop is a must. - Analytical ability in creating effective solutions to complex matters while adhering to labor laws and internal policies.

Language/Travel:

Arabic and English are required.

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Health Manager

Position directly supervises: None.

Indirect Reporting (If applicable): None Key Internal Contacts: Health officer, Health Information System Officer, Health staff in the clinics, IRC Health program and operations team.

Key External Contacts: Other NGOs, local customers health actors in Syria

Professional Standards: IRC staff must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Global Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability and Equality. In accordance with these values, IRC operates and carries out policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti-Workplace Harassment, Respect at Work Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.

Returning National Candidates: We strongly encourage national or returning national candidates to apply for this position. If you are a citizen of the Country in which this position is based and are currently located outside of your home country and possess over two years of international work experience, the Middle East Region has introduced an attractive remuneration package. The package includes competitive compensation, return flight to post, shipping allowance, temporary housing, and a relocation allowance. Certain restrictions may apply. IRC strives to attract, motivate, and retain qualified national staff in our programs.

Accountability to Clients: IRC staff must adhere to the commitment of contributing to the sustainability and development of its (CR) Client Responsiveness Mechanisms, preserving the culture of prioritizing the needs of our clients and affected communities by systematically listening to their perspectives and using their feedback to make programmatic decisions and give them greater influence over program design and delivery.

Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and allowances.

Diversity and Inclusion: at IRC MENA, we are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Organizations that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, nationality, and perspective are validated to be better organizations. More importantly, creating a safe workspace environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best is the right thing to do. So, bring your whole self to work.

IRC is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, respectful, and safe work environment where all persons are treated fairly, with dignity and respect. In keeping with our core values of Integrity, Service, Accountability and Equality, IRC strives to maintain a work environment built on mutual respect in which all individuals treat each other professionally, and free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. IRC expressly prohibits and will not tolerate discrimination, harassment, retaliation, or bullying of IRC Persons in any work setting. All IRC staff, wherever they are located, are accountable for creating an environment free of discrimination, harassment, bullying, and retaliation.

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Added 12 days ago - Updated 4 hours ago - Source: rescue.org