Emergency Medicine Physician - Trauma & Surgical Unit Job

NOTE - THIS POSITION IS TO APPLY TO A STAND BY ROSTER FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (ERT).

Candidates selected for this position will be placed on the ERT standby roster and may be called when the International Medical Corps ERT responds to an emergency. This position is not compensated unless candidates are responding to an emergency response.

When catastrophe hits, International Medical Corps is often one of the first humanitarian aid organizations on the scene—providing rapid and effective aid that saves lives, reduces suffering, and promotes self reliance.

International Medical Corps has established an International Emergency Roster to ensure that emergency positions are filled in a timely manner with professionally qualified, gender balanced, geographically diverse, linguistically able and a highly motivated corps of professionals. The team includes coordinators, logisticians, doctors and water and sanitation experts. It also includes specialists who focus on protection, prevention of sexual violence and aid for rape survivors and mental health.

Emergency Response Team (ERT) members are always on standby to deploy to a crisis within 72 hours, whether they are launching into new areas or lending support to International Medical Corps teams already on the ground.

International Medical Corps maintains a roster of staff which is updated on regular basis in order to include new staff into the system. This also provides an opportunity for the existing staff to update their areas of expertise and other relevant information.

Through this expression of Interest, applicants are encouraged to submit their profiles so that their information is readily available in the International Medical Corps applicant tracking system.

JOB SUMMARY The primary responsibility of the TSDU Emergency Medicine Physician is to implement emergency services in an emergency field hospital setting. These include stabilization/resuscitation and out-patient services.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSABILITIES: • Provide Core Team Leader with initial assessment of needed medical capacity in disaster response (example: determining Model 2 vs Model 3 TSDU deployment, and which personnel/resources must brought in vs hired/procured locally) • Provide emergency care for affected population according to internationally accepted standards • Oversee and manage triage • Collaborate with Medical Director and Surgeons on initiating and implementing Surge/MCI protocols • Oversee medical management of all ER patients • Conduct daily rounds of non-surgical patients and plan discharges • Utilize and improve on standardized data collection tools and train staff on accurate data collection • Collect and analyze emergency services data to adjust project objectives and implementation processes • Collaborate with the Medical Director and other relevant staff to improve TSDU systems such: infection prevention/control, rational drug use, patient flow, staffing and scheduling, etc. • Assess training needs and institute hiring/training of necessary staff members • Work with Medical Director and Team Leader to implement standardized internal reporting • Work with logistics and pharmacy to ensure regular and adequate drug and surgical supplies in order to avoid stock-outs • Collaborate with recognized health authorities, health agencies, donors and other stakeholders to utilize standardized reporting practices and information sharing • Actively participate in coordination meetings and other relevant meetings • Perform any other relevant duties as requested by the Team Leader • At deployment end, provide in-depth, concrete, and constructive feedback for the further development of the TSDU program

QUALIFICATIONS • Medical degree and post graduate degree in Emergency Medicine • Minimum of five years of experience required • Experience in disaster response assessment in low-income country • Experience in delivering and managing emergency care in a disaster response setting • Excellent communications skills, both oral and written English • Experience in effectively dealing with international and headquarters staff, as well as donor agencies, government officials, and other NGO’s; the ability to work with a broad spectrum of people • Resilient leader, able to inspire confidence in local and ex-pat staff in stressful situations • Innovative and adaptable to the limitations of a field hospital Preferable • Sub-specialty training in Global Health (International EM), Disaster or Emergency Ultrasound • Fluency in additional languages

CONDITIONS

• Accommodation, food and transportation provided by the organization • Medical Evacuation service and competitive benefits provided by the organization • Further information regarding security available during the interview process • While performing duties of the job, the employee frequently works in precarious and remote places. The employee is usually employed in areas of civil strife, which often result in an unstable security environment. Regularly work in outdoor, extreme weather conditions

How to apply:

APPLICATION PROCEDURE To officially begin the application process, please visit our website athttp://careers.internationalmedicalcorps.org/careers.aspx and complete the online employment application form.