MEDICAL DOCTOR – ARSAL – North Bekaa - 100% ACTIVITY RATE

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.

MSF is committed to achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion within its workforce irrespective of gender, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, culture, religious and ethnic backgrounds. All job applications will be treated in strictest confidence.

Starting date: ASAP

Type of contract: 100% Intervention Contract, Renewable based on need.

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

Place of work: Arsal – North Bekaa

Salary: 271,623,670 LBP

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.
• Follow up the evolution of patients, through 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 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 patient’s illness, medical error and monitors the proper functioning of the department, equipment or material.

Participate in training of the medical/paramedical multidisciplinary team in order to optimize the quality of care.

• Know and ensure 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.

Specific activities:

• Carry out consultations with outpatients in the Mobile medical units, Arsal clinic and Hermel clinic, and prescribe medications according to MSF protocols.
• Stabilize patients in need and organize referral operations that align with the referral criteria and pathway.
• Discuss cases with the medical manager before proceeding with the referral for validation.
• Participate in the rational prescription of drugs with other team members under the supervision of the medical manager.
• Participate in 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.
• Being flexible to work in the Mobile Clinics, or Hermel clinic or Arsal clinic based on the need.

Requirements

Education           Essential: Medical Doctor degree 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.

Experience          Essential: 2 years of previous work experience as a Medical Doctor in clinical work.

Desirable: Previous experience in Mental Health gap.

Languages          Essential: Full professional proficiency of the English and Arabic languages.

Desirable: Proficiency in French at any level.

Knowledge         Essential: basic to intermediate knowledge of MS-Office applications (word, excel, Outlook

Competencies

People Management L1 Commitment L2 Flexibility L2

Results L2 Teamwork L2