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International Committee of the Red Cross
Staff Health Officer I
Maiduguri • Nigeria
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Description
Requirements
- MBBS, with a minimum of 3 years of clinical experience.
- Fluency in English;
- Experience in mental health, and stress management.
- Experience in medical evacuation and transportation.
- Knowledge of tropical health and public health systems;
- Proficiency with MS Office and internet tools.
- Good rigour, method, and analytical skills.
- You must have a valid working permit to work in Nigeria
Desired profile and skills
- Strongly motivated by humanitarian work
- Willing to travel up to 50% of his/her time, as per needs (domestic as well as international)
- Management skills.
- Keeps strict medical confidentiality
- Respect of medical professional regulations
Responsibilities
- Makes a context-specific health risks assessment
- Carries out context-specific health briefings for all new ICRC staff and debriefing for departing staff.
- Ensure that vaccinations of ICRC staff are complete as determined in the staff health policy and depending on the locally available vaccines.
- Counsels for medical screening at recruitment and specific professional categories and the yearly medical Green Light for mobile staff.
- Prepare and support for the awareness campaigns designed by Staff health to all the Delegation staff.
- Facilitate First-aid training for staff on a regular basis to the staff in Damaturu in coordination with SHM and collaboration with the National Society
- Review and confirm the medical evacuation plan for Damaturu and support for Maiduguri
- Identifies national reference structures for vertical health programs.
- Keeps strict medical confidentiality: all individual health information of ICRC staff is strictly confidential. Upon agreement of the person concerned it may be shared among medical staff bound by the same medical confidentiality.
- Provides individual medical follow-up for ICRC staff and their dependents when advice is sought.
- Assess mental health needs for individual cases, and provide First Psychological aid to colleagues requiring this support
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