Staff health focal point job at Medecins Sans Frontieres

Medecins Sans Frontieres

Staff health focal point job Post

Location: Jobs in Uganda 2022 - 2023

Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day

Salary: UGX

No. of vacancies: 01

Deadline: 12 October 2022

Hiring Organization: Medecins Sans Frontieres

Job Details:

Main purpose
Support the Medical Coordinator through delegated tasks and responsibilities, including administrative tasks related to national and International staff health.

Accountabilities:
• Apply the national staff employee health and social policy.
• Responsible for implementing, linking/communicating, monitoring/following up national staff health policy and international staff health needs
• In collaboration with the HR team participate in updating the national staff health and social policy
• Ensure all new staff are oriented about the health policy
• Provide First Aid and refer to health facility medical emergencies occurring within the Kampala Office
• Organize staff health promotion and education events
• Organize staff vaccination campaigns in the mission against Hepatitis, tetanus, Covid 19 and ensure that the vaccination database is updated
• In consultation with Medco, Update staff leaves forms upon verification of the Doctors’ notes
• Perform annual contact updates of the medical specialists/ hospitals/clinics
• Support the medical coordinator in briefing international staff arrivals about health risks, prevention, and access to health facilities
• Support international staff to make appointments
• Brief all staff coming to Uganda via Kampala for Ebola assignment, and ensure that they follow the Sops.
• Follow individual staff coming from Ebola assignments and staying in Kampala
• Ensure the application of Ebola preventive measures in the MSF offices
• Update IPC measures for other diseases such as Covid 19
• Work with the Pharmacy Coordinator to ensure that the First Aid kits in MSF cars, Guest Houses, and the medical emergency boxes are up to date
• Collect information from Insurance health providers, analyze/ prepare and share/present a quarterly staff health utilization report and recommend action points as per the report analysis

Education Essential: Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine & Surgery. Must be registered with the UMDC
Experience
• Essential previous experience of at least 2 years in similar or relevant positions.
• Desirable previous experience in MSF or other NGOs in developing countries.

Languages
• Knowledge Mission language (English) and local language essential
• Essential computer literacy (word, excel, and internet)

Desirable knowledge of basic mechanics
Competencies
• Results and Quality Orientation, Teamwork and Cooperation, Behavioral Flexibility, Commitment to MSF Principles.

Application procedure

Interested candidates are invited to submit their application letter and a detailed CV, academic documents, and work certificates merged together in a SINGLE PDF or WORD document with the applicant’s name & job title in the subject line to the HR department via email;
Deputy HR Coordinator
Médecins Sans Frontières
Muyenga Office
E-mail : msff-kampala-recruitment@paris.msf.org

NOTE: The candidature files will not be returned.

NOTE: Only persons responding to the job profile will be contacted for a written test and/or interview.
No monetary, good, or service offers, nor favoritism, will be tolerated in a recruiting process. MSF reserves the right to refuse any candidate having benefited from such acts. Any illicit solicitations can be reported to the justice system.

Deadline for receiving applications: 12th October 2022 at 17h00