RECRUITMENT NOTICE

INTERNAL & EXTERNAL

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

Medical Doctor                                       Full-time contract

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) Medical Doctor – Full time contract.

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 72 surgical beds and 126 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 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 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’ illness, medical error and monitors the proper functioning of the department, equipment or material.

• Ensure ongoing training of the medical/paramedical multidisciplinary team to optimize the quality of care.

• Knows and ensures all MSF medical protocols are followed and implemented, checking universal precautions are always followed and reducing bio-hazard risks and improving infection control. Ensure 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

General Medical Activities

• S/He works in collaboration with all the departments under medical domain in RSP to ensure provision of quality and timely medical services to the patients. 

• S/He participates in all medical activities including morbidity reviews, clinical audits, retrospective analysis, medical meetings and incident reporting to continuously improve the quality of care in the hospital.  

• Ensure proper documentation of all patients’ records. 

• Serve as the first point of contact for all medical and surgical cases.

​IPD Specific

• Work in collaboration with the team, including but not limited to Surgeons, Anesthetists, MHPSS, Nursing and Physiotherapy teams. 
• Ensure daily round in the ward in the morning with a second examination in the afternoon as per Ward Policies document. 
• Assess and manage pre- and postoperative care.
• Ensure the respect for transfusion security in the ward
• Coordinate with the OPD Supervisor the admission of new patients according to their personal, medical and infection status.
• Assess and coordinate the need for external consultations and informs the Clinical Manager.
• Ensure the follow up of infection parameters, results of cultures and antibiotic treatment
• Ensure the follow up of pain control and participate in the pain rounds every week. 
• Ensure effective handover of patients to the incoming Doctor at the end of each shift.
• Ensure the follow-up of infection parameters, results of cultures and antibiotic treatment in close collaboration with antibiotic stewardship unit
• Ensure the follow-up concerning surgical issues: wound care, mobilization, casts, slabs and tractions… 
• Ensure comprehensive documentation in the patients' medical file once daily concerning diagnosis, lab exams, treatments, plan and discharge orders.
• Update the medical handover register at the end of every working day and ensure effective handover with the incoming medical doctor. 

OPD Specific

• Ensure the follow-up of treatments of previous hospitalized patients, including short- term prescriptions and renewal of long-term prescriptions.
• Ensure the follow-up and interpretations of the results of investigations.
• Take the history and performs a physical examination of patients with medical complains. Define diagnosis and ensure treatment.
• Assess and coordinate the need for external consultations with the Clinical Manager and the OPD supervisor.
• Inform the patient about his/her treatment, explain how to take it and ensure the understanding.
• Ensure comprehensive documentation in the patient’s medical file and EMR for every consultation or new information concerning diagnosis, lab exams, treatments, plan and discharge orders.
• Notify the Surgeons of any medical problem related to surgery, including pain, changes in the infection parameters, pertinent medical information.
• Regular follow-up of patients with long-term daily dressings.
• Identify the need for patient’s education and provides education.