RECRUITMENT NOTICE

                                          INTERNAL & EXTERNAL

The French section of Médecins Sans Frontières is recruiting for its project in Amman

                         Plastic Surgeon Assistant – Daily Worker Pool                                      

CONTEXT

Médecins Sans Frontières is a private, non-profit international humanitarian organization dedicated to providing medical assistance to populations in crisis, without discrimination and regardless of race, religion, creed, or political affiliation. For more information, visit our Arabic website, www.msf-me.org.

Médecins Sans Frontières is running a reconstructive surgery program in Amman, which opened in 2006, is giving access to reconstructive surgery (orthopedic, plastic, and maxillo-facial) to war-wounded people providing comprehensive health care, MSF aims at identifying and referring patients from neighboring countries (Iraq, Yemen, Syria, and other countries with conflicts) then ensuring their medical follow-up after discharge.

Médecins Sans Frontières Reconstructive Surgery in Amman are seeking a (1)        Plastic Surgeon Assistant – Daily Worker pool.

DIMENSION OF POST

The Reconstructive Surgery Hospital provides specialized surgical and rehabilitation care, with an average of 550 admissions and over 1,000 surgeries annually. The facility has 50 surgical beds and 69 rehabilitation beds, as well as two operating theatres dedicated to orthopedic, maxillofacial, and plastic reconstructive surgeries. The hospital also includes an outpatient department (OPD) providing an average of 550 consultations per month, physiotherapy and psychosocial support services, and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) activities, including Antimicrobial Stewardship, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), and a microbiology laboratory.

MAIN PRUPOSE

Provide outpatient and/or inpatient medical care to patients/beneficiaries according to adapted and updated medical knowledge, MSF protocols, values and universal hygiene standards to improve the patient’s/beneficiaries health conditions.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Apply medical/surgical knowledge and skills to diagnose and prevention. Carry out outpatient and inpatient surgical consultations, prescribing the necessary treatment respecting MSF protocols.
• Keep the patient and/or his/her family informed about their surgical status and provide appropriate explanations about the treatment plan to follow, checking they have understood.
• Follow up the evolution of the hospitalized/IDP patients, through daily visits, consultations and examinations, prescribing the necessary treatment following MSF protocols, deciding whether they can be discharged or transferred to other departments – in collaboration with other doctors- and informing their family about the patient’s evolution.
• Check and control the rational distribution of medicines and equipment under his/her responsibility and take care of the quality, disinfection and sterilization of the medical material.
• Assure general compliance with standing hygiene standards.
• Participate in the collection and analysis of epidemiological data, checking its validity and informing the line manager or project coordinator about any problem or complication of the patients’ surgeries, medical error and monitors the proper functioning of the department, equipment or material.
• Ensure ongoing training of the multidisciplinary medical team to optimize the quality of care.
• Knows and ensures all MSF medical/ surgical protocols are followed and implemented, checking universal precautions are always followed and reducing bio-hazard risks and improving infection control. Ensures professional confidentiality is respected.
• Manage the team under his/her direct responsibility according to MSF HR policies and procedures, supervising their performance, organizing and scheduling shifts and rotations, directly participating in emergencies and on calls if necessary.

CONTEXT SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES

           Scope of responsibilities

• Assists the Surgeons in their examination, preparation, operation and follow up of the patient in the OPD, ward and OT.

           Examine patient

• Informs the inpatient about his state and explains the treatment
• Identifies need for patient’s education and orders or provides education
• Comprehensive documents diagnosis and treatments in patients' charts/EMR in a timely and accurate manner
• Documents of results of physical examination.
• Demonstrates timely, consistent and reliable follow up on patients care issues.
• Assist the surgeons in their OPD duties in aspects of clinical examination and documentation
• Interprets diagnostic test results for deviations from normal Communicates with patient and staff, verbally and otherwise in a manner that exhibits good professional judgment and good listening skills and is appropriate for the professional setting. 

  Peri-operative period

• Ensures proper preparation of patients before the surgery
• Performs any combination of following tasks before, during, and after surgery to assist surgical team:
  • Assist team members to place and position patients on table.
  • Scrubs arms and hands and dons gown and gloves.
  • Hands instruments and supplies to surgeon, holds retractors, cuts sutures, and performs other tasks as directed by surgeon during operation.
  • Put dressings on patient following surgery.
  • Counts sponges, needles, and instruments before and after operation.
  • Documents the surgery notes, and any surgical complications in the electronic medical record (EMR), ensuring comprehensive and up-to-date clinical/surgical records, under direct supervision from the surgeons
  • Works in collaboration with the senior surgeons and the anesthetists.

            Patients’ follow-up meeting:

• Attend with the surgeon(s) in patient’s follow-up meetings. 

           Validation Committee once a week at the Field Office

• Attend validation Committee meetings with other Surgeons.

           Report:

• Provides medical report on request.

           Additional activities:

• Assists the surgeons under their direct supervision in the follow up of the postoperative patients as well as the long term follow up of the patients in the OPD
• In cases of emergency, is present with the senior any time they are on call. Shares the on-call responsibility with the senior according to the call roster        
• Ensures information exchange regarding his duty
• Collects data
• Medical meetings

WORKING HOURS

• Office hours
• Nights calls in case of emergency needs
• And Saturday’s pre-operative assessment and response to night calls and may need to come for urgent operations according to call duties scheduled done at the beginning of each month.

PROFILE

WORK LOCATION: Amman, at Al Mowasah hospital.

CONTRACT: For temporary support, no contract will be signed, and payment will be based on the number of days performed at an hourly rate.

 START DATE: Request will be upon need

Interested applicants should submit their application in English containing curriculum vitae no later than 12^th October to the Akhtaboot website.

Only candidates meeting the requirements will be called through their addresses

Notice: No monetary transactions, neither demands of favors in kind, nor other types of favoritism will be tolerated in the recruitment process. MSF reserves the right to refuse the hiring of a candidate having benefitted from such acts. All illicit demands of these types may be pursued through the judicial system.

MSF promotes the inclusion of women and people with disabilities. Médecins Sans Frontières is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we serve and our staff. MSF has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse, harassment, and abuse of power. All selected candidates will be subject to reference checks.