Mobile Clinic Nurse
Implement emergency health response services in Rakhine State.
Overview
Implement emergency health response services in Rakhine State.
You have:
- Licensed Nurse with Bachelor of Nursing or diploma of nursing.
- Must have valid Nurse Registration document.
- At least 1 year experience of primary health care settings after graduation.
- Favorable to person with experience on medical response to disaster area, surveillance and control of communicable diseases in disaster area.
- Sensitivity to the needs and priorities of conflicted-affected populations.
- Strong leadership skill and team management skill.
- Adaptable, flexible and mature in judgment.
- Good assessment, analytical, planning and reporting skills.
- Understanding of medical ethic and patient education.
- Have ability and motivation to travel by boat and work long continuous days in remote villages in Rakhine coastal region.
Job Description
Background/IRC Summary:
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a private, non-political, non-profit, and non-religious organization. For over 90 years, we have been providing humanitarian assistance to communities affected by conflict and natural disasters in more than 40 countries. Since 2008, the IRC has been active in Myanmar, delivering humanitarian assistance in areas such as health, protection, water, and sanitation, specifically targeting families impacted by conflict and natural disasters.
Job Overview/Summary:
This position is specifically assigned for Emergency Health response services in Rakhine State
- Implement primary health care activities in IDP camps and conflicted/Disaster affected villages Record keeping and medical supplies management - Build Capacity of Mobile clinic team members - Participate in project monitoring and evaluation.
Major Responsibilities
Implementation of clinical care in targeted camps and villages
- Respect and follow 5 clinic opening hours and 8 working hours a day Implement the proper triage of patients presenting to clinics - Provide quality ante-natal, post-natal and newborn care - Perform lab test (e.g., Malaria RDTs, Urine Sugar) and/or collect test samples as deemed necessary. - Assist Medical Doctor/Clinic manager in giving appropriate medical care to the patients. - Educate a patient about the clinical condition that he/she suffered and explain the possible side effect of medications. - Ad****m****inist****er and dispense drugs as prescribed by the Medical Doctor and ensure the patient is clear on how to take the medication (correct dosage/frequency and duration) - Ensu****re the clinic environment clean and patient friendly - Perform wound management and assist in minor procedure if needed - Strictly follow universal precaution, infection control principles and sterilization of surgical instruments.
Record keeping and medical supplies management
- Record the drugs dispensed to every patient in daily consumption register/record book Complete and keep proper medical records and registers. - Manage stock of drugs and PHC clinic commodities. - Ensure not to stock out of drugs at the clinic by the collaboration with medical doctors and medical supply chain officer. - Assist Medical Doctor/Clinic Manager (Team Leader) to manage clinic database including data compilation, entry and reporting.
Capacity building of the Community Volunteers
- Assist Medical Doctor in supervising clinic guard, tuk tuk driver, translators and community health workers.
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Conduct data entry at clinic level:
o Support Medical Doctors in entering patient consultation data onto tablets and in hard copy to patient record books
Prepare and report weekly and monthly EWARS reports and MUAC screening report as needed.
Other
- Coordinate with program support teams to implement project activities in time. - Assist medical doctor/clinic manager to provide procurement documents in advance as needed. - In collaboration with other members of the health project team, participate in the design and implementation of formative assessments and baseline studies in order to identify health priorities and practices among the IDP and community. - Assist Medical Doctor/ Clinic Manager for establishing diseases surveillance system and outbreak response as needed. - Remain flexible to perform other duties as required or requested
Key Working Relationships:
Position Reports to: Medical Doctor
Position directly supervises: Nil
Qualifications
Job Requirements:
- Licensed Nurse with Bachelor of Nursing or diploma of nursing. - Must have valid Nurse Registration document. - At least 1 years’ experience of primary health care settings after graduation. - Favorable to person with experience on medical response to disaster area, surveillance and control of communicable diseases in disaster area. - Sensitivity to the needs and priorities of conflicted-affected populations. - Strong leadership skill and team management skill. - Adaptable, flexible and mature in judgment. - Good assessment, analytical, planning and reporting skills. - Understanding of medical ethic and patient education. - Have ability and motivation to travel by boat and work long continuous days in remote villages in Rakhine costal region.
- If a suitable applicant is found, an interview will be conducted before the position deadline.
Myanmar nationals with relevant skills sets and proven experience of working at international level are strongly encouraged.
The IRC Core Values and Commitments.
- The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons. - IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff are suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy. - Level of interaction with children: Frequent direct contact with children. - IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback. - IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.
Potential interview questions
| Describe a time when you had to educate a patient about their clinical condition. | This question assesses your ability to communicate complex medical information clearly. | Provide a specific example demonstrating your communication skills and empathy. |
| How do you manage your time during high-pressure situations in a clinic? | The interviewer wants to know how you handle stress and prioritize tasks. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Can you give an example of how you ensure adherence to infection control principles? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How do you approach the supervision and support of community health workers? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What steps do you take to keep accurate medical records? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Discuss a challenge you faced while working in a disaster-affected area and how you handled it. | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Explain the importance of triage in a clinical setting. | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How have you contributed to a team in your past positions? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |