NCD Medical Doctor with Pediatric Experience – Flying Arsal and Hermel - Activity Rate 100%

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in 1971. Today, MSF provides independent, impartial assistance in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, and exclusion from health care or natural disasters.

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Starting date: ASAP

Type of contract: 100%, Fixed-Term Contract for 2 months.

Updated competitive salary package with benefits including allowances, medical coverage, and 5 weeks of paid leave.

Place of work: Flying Hermel and Arsal 

Scope of responsibility:

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 patients/beneficiary’s health conditions.

Function responsibilities include:

• Apply medical knowledge and skills to diagnose and prevention. Carry out outpatient and inpatient consultations, prescribing the necessary treatment respecting MSF protocols.
• Keep the patient and/or his/her family informed about the illness and provide appropriate explanations about the treatment to follow, checking they have understood.
• Work in various departments, including the NCD (Non-Communicable Diseases) department, the paediatric acute care department, or an MMU (Mobile Medical Unit). Be prepared for changes in the work location on short notice based on the evolving needs of the project.
• Check and control the rational distribution of medicines and equipment under his/her responsibility and take care 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’ illness, medical error and monitors the proper functioning of the department, equipment, or material.
• Ensure ongoing training of the medical/paramedical multidisciplinary team in order to optimize the quality of care.
• Knows and ensures all MSF medical protocols are followed and implemented, checking universal precautions are followed at all times 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.

Specific Accountabilities

• Carry out consultations with outpatients in the pediatric department and prescribe medications according to MSF protocols.
• Stabilize patients in need and organize referral operations that align with the pediatric department referral criteria.
• Discuss cases with the responsible pediatrician of the pediatric department before proceeding with the referral for validation.
• Participate in the rational prescription of drugs with other team members under the supervision of the pediatrician responsible for the department.
• Coordinate the training sessions for the medical and paramedical team according to the department's training plan.
• Accompany referred patients to hospitals when necessary.
• Collaborate with both the medical and paramedical team for the effective provision of service to our beneficiaries.

Requirements

Education           Essential: Diploma of Medicine from a recognized university.

Essential: Ministry of public health practice license as doctor in Lebanon.

Essential: Certificate of registration at the Lebanese order of physicians-LOP.

Desirable: Pediatric Residency completion.

Experience          Essential: 2 years of clinical working experience as General practitioner in pediatric department.

Languages          Essential: Full professional proficiency using the Arabic Language.

Essential: Limited to full professional proficiency using the English language.

Desirable: Elementary to limited professional proficiency using the French Language.

Knowledge         Essential: Basic to intermediate computer literacy using MS-office applications (MS-Word, MS-Outlook, MS-Excel).

Competencies  

• Stress Management                                 (L3)
• Commitment to MSF principles              (L2)
• Behavioral Flexibility                                (L2)
• Results and Quality Orientation              (L2)
• Teamwork and Cooperation                    (L2)