Doctor

Doctor

Brief details:

• Location: Ocaña
• Vacancy No: JR00001818
• Salary: N/A
• Organization: IRC International Rescue Committee
  
• Deadline: Varies

Qualifications:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world’s largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you’re a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.

Job overview :​

The IRC is looking for a general practitioner with experience in:

• Community activities for health promotion and disease prevention.
• Comprehensive management of moderate and severe malnutrition.
• Promotion of sexual and reproductive rights, contraception and voluntary termination of pregnancy.

Job Responsibilities :

• To contribute directly to the fulfillment of programmatic goals and indicators, in coordination with the health team, supervision, management and program coordination.
• Provide daily medical care to an average of 20 to 24 users, in the different components of the program, with emphasis on the components of primary health care, sexual and reproductive health and nutrition, in accordance with the established guidelines.
• To provide advice, medical care and follow-up for the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE), in accordance with the current Colombian regulatory framework (Sentence C-355 of 2006 and associated regulations).
• To make the internal and external referrals required by the program in a proper and timely manner, ensuring continuity of care.
• To provide comprehensive and timely follow-up to the people served, in accordance with clinical protocols and established care pathways.
• Prepare the drug referral orders in accordance with the list of medications authorized by the organization.
• Complete and sign the referral forms for diagnostic support at the time of medical care.
• Comply with the clinical, technical and administrative protocols established by the organization, the Departmental Health Institute and the Ministry of Health and Social Protection.
• Record all care provided in the electronic medical record in a complete, timely and truthful manner, using the software defined by the organization.
• Consolidate and report daily statistics on services provided, including diagnoses and procedures.
• Deliver the Individual Health Service Provision Record (RIPS) in a timely manner, in accordance with institutional guidelines.
• To correctly and promptly complete the notification forms for events of public health interest for subsequent uploading to the SIVIGILA platform.
• Prepare technical reports (daily, weekly and monthly), according to the requested frequency, on service statistics and programmatic progress.
• To support the collection of data in an ethical, confidential, and technically sound manner, contributing to the program’s information management systems.
• To ensure the programmatic quality of the implemented interventions, through the use and monitoring of the processes, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and institutional tools of the IRC.
• Ensure the implementation of the recommendations issued by supervision, program coordination and management.
• Promote and support adherence to the program’s cross-cutting processes, such as referrals, PQR management, risk analysis, safeguarding, and other institutional mechanisms.
• Lead the on-the-ground implementation of the IRC’s Community Mobilization Strategy, ensuring proper documentation of activities and the dissemination of progress, challenges, and lessons learned.
• To accompany the educational days, promotional activities, prevention and continuous training provided by the program.
• Coordinate activities within the framework of visits by donors, IRC staff, media and key stakeholders, ensuring proper organization and achievement of objectives.
• Manage and strengthen the IRC’s relationships with partner organizations and local actors on the ground, ensuring timely and relevant responses to emerging situations and generating early warnings about implementation challenges.
• Continuously map stakeholders and actors to identify opportunities for potential IRC strategic partnerships.
• Lead the field implementation of sectoral or multi-sectoral needs assessments, contributing to the collection of relevant information from the population served and of interest.
• Lead the team’s movements and activities in the field, coordinating with the Operations area to ensure compliance with IRC operational procedures and tools.
• Maintain an up-to-date understanding of the context, identifying relevant changes that may affect security, humanitarian access, or program implementation.
• Report any security incident promptly to your immediate supervisor, in accordance with institutional protocols.
• Be responsible for the proper use, custody and control of supplies, medical devices and other items assigned for the exercise of your profession.
• Perform other duties as assigned by your immediate supervisor, according to the needs of the program.

Work modality and operational conditions in the field:

• The duties of the position will be carried out primarily in an extramural modality, within the framework of the activities programmed in the field.
• The position requires frequent travel to urban and rural areas within the municipalities where the project operates.
• The person must be available for continuous mobility within the territory, according to the operational planning and the needs of the program.
• Availability to travel and stay overnight in the intervention territories is required when the project activities so require.

Donation Control & Reporting​

• Submit periodic reports on the activities carried out by the project.
• Identify the subsidy by service and point of care.

Program Development​

• Make contributions that help enrich the work environment.
• Contribute to the development of the program’s strategic direction.
• Achieving the goals of each grant.
• Coordinate with the IRC areas (ERD, and Child Protection, Education and Protection and Empowerment of Women) as a complement to a holistic service to the initial care of the people served by the health program.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Complete and submit daily statistics based on care and diagnoses.
• Fill out health program databases.
• Successfully complete the program’s external and internal referrals. Indicator: referral database

Others

• Comply with the regulatory framework according to the requirements of the municipal and departmental regulatory bodies.
• Other tasks, as assigned by the supervisor, to enable and develop IRC programs.

Job requirements :

• Medical professional, with professional card and current registration in Rethus.
• Minimum experience of two (2) years in community activities of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, with groups in situations of high vulnerability, in contexts of human mobility, mixed migration flows and people affected by armed conflict.
• Minimum experience of two (2) years in the care and comprehensive management of pregnant women and lactating women, in contexts of human mobility and mixed migratory flows.

Preferred experience and skills :

• Willingness to work on Sexual and Reproductive Health issues including access to voluntary termination of pregnancy (VTP).
• Certification in the comprehensive management of acute and moderate malnutrition is desirable.
• Knowledge and experience in maternal and child health, IMCI, Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy, Clinical Care for Survivors of Gender Violence and PYP.
• Issue of a valid policy of non-contractual civil liability for damages against third parties.
• Skills for working with groups, teamwork and community work.
• Skills: for written and verbal communication, effective and affective interpersonal relationships, teamwork, ease of expression and fluent vocabulary.
• Attitudes: Service to others, high level of tolerance in the face of adverse situations, empathy, spontaneity to help and collaborate.
• Principles and values: solidarity, respect for oneself and others, responsibility, integrity, transparency, honesty, truthfulness.

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS

All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.

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