Overview
The Health Manager, UN Clinic Physician will provide medical services to UN staff and their dependents, manage the UN Clinic, and facilitate medical evacuations.
Tasks Summary
- Attend the United Nations Clinic on a full time basis.
- Respond to acute emergencies in line with international protocols.
- Undertake day-to-day clinical duties, including medical examinations and immunizations.
- Provide health education and participate in addressing work environment and occupational health issues.
- Diagnose and recommend treatment to all staff visiting the Clinic.
- Be on call during and outside office hours for emergencies and house calls.
- Liaise with other medical facilities to coordinate medical evacuations.
- Follow United Nations established policies and procedures regarding medical clearances, sick leave and medical evacuations.
- Recommend medical evacuation when required and facilitate authorized medical evacuations.
- Ensure proper follow up on all cases.
- Establish good relations with reliable hospitals, private medical facilities and blood banks.
- Ensure that proper medical records are kept in a strictly confidential manner.
- Maintain emergency medical supplies and equipment.
- Replenish first aid kits and other essential medical supplies.
- Recommend procurement of vaccines, medical supplies and equipment.
- Maintain medical records of all United Nations personnel and advise health precautionary steps.
- Prepare and send periodic reports of clinic functions, visits, medical evacuations and treatments.
- Advice on health precautionary steps to be undertaken at the duty station.
- Lead and manage the medical service team.
- Ensure the development, generation, and reporting of relevant key performance indicators.
- Ensure timely recruiting and training of all new staff and effective performance management.
- Ensure effective, continuous professional development of staff and their career management.
- Ensure compliance with UN healthcare facilities' standards.
- Perform annual planning and budget preparation and manage the EarthMed medical record system.
- Manage day-to-day mission medical support operations.
- Ensure that appropriate training programs are implemented.
- Oversees workplace health and medical service communication products and liaison/outreach with external actors.
- Briefs and advises senior management on all healthcare matters relevant to the workplace.
- Represents the medical service on health and medical entitlements matters.
- Ensures effective occupational health representation at the local occupational health and safety committee.
- Planning and organization of training of focal points and peer educators.
- Arranging the dissemination of UN policies on HIV/AIDS.
- Conducting an education and information campaign.
Experience Requirements
- A minimum of five years of progressively responsible clinical experience in one of the areas of medicine is required.
- Residency and/or Internship in one of the medical specialties, preferably internal medicine, or family medicine, is required.
- Two years of experience in the Occupational Health field is highly desirable.
- Experience with International Organizations and/or field deployments is required.
- Two years of managerial experience in the medical field, including budgeting, supervisory responsibilities, and resource management, is required.
- Valid certification in Advanced Trauma Life support, Advanced cardiac Life support, OR Prehospital trauma life support is required.
- Proven ability to handle acute emergencies, triage, and stabilization.
- Experience in mass casualty and medical evacuation coordination.
- Certification in HIV care OR VCCT is desirable.
- Familiarity with medical record systems (e.g., EarthMed).
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) is expected.
Qualification Requirements
• A first-level university degree that qualifies for registration as a licensed medical practitioner (MD, MBBS, MBChB, or equivalent) and current unrestricted registration with the medical licensing authority of one of the Member States of the United Nations is required.
