Save the Children’s origins lie in emergency response. The Emergency Health Unit is a new and exciting programme, part of the humanitarian department, that was recently launched to improve humanitarian response. The unit ensures a pre-standing emergency health capacity, including medical supplies, logistics and skilled medical personnel, to deploy anywhere in the world in the event of a major disaster or conflict. This capacity includes the set up of three mobile teams to support primary health care, mass immunization and diarrheal disease response in the initial phase of anemergency, ideally to be set up within 72 hours of the disaster.
The three mobile teams will comprise of team leader, clinical lead, nurse, logistician, medical logistician and WASH Manager, and will be managed by the Head of EHU Outpatient Department and supported by Save the Children Humanitarian Operations and Technical Unit.
About the role
This role will manage the daily nursing activities of the mobile team. This will involve either support to emergency primary health care, acute watery diarrhoea or mass vaccination and can include additional surge capacity to other emergency health responses as required.
The nurse will work with the clinical lead to develop nursing standard operating procedures for the programme, supporting emergency preparedness activities and on deployment take responsibility for nursing activities within the response under the guidance of the clinical lead and team leader supported by the WASH manager and logistics team. This will include ensuring that mobile team activities integrate in to the Save the Children emergency response as a whole.
About you
You are a registered Nurse, qualified from a recognized center- as such you have experience in general practice, and medical nursing and primary health teams and health projects. You have strong experience of humanitarian healthcare in insecure environments including practice of setting up large scale emergency health programmes from scratch. You have worked in a district hospital overseas working on management and clinical care, and ideally in Cholera Treatment Center. Flexible, you are willing to be deployed at short notice up to 80% of the time. For full details, please see the job description.
What we offer in return
You will receive a competitive salary, hardship allowance, 35 days of annual leave, medical insurance while on deployment; travel and accommodation provided for; based in home country- In addition you will receive paid R&R; complexity allowance and expensive posting allowance where applicable.
About the recruitment process
We will review applications on the rolling basis and might test, interview, and appoint prior the closing date. Ideally, the role holder will start in May 2015 with a period for orientation and training.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please apply via the enclosed link
