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Job Title: Orthopedic Surgery Specialist - Consultant FSR # 618

Location: Azraq Camp Hospital

Background:

International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

-  Provision of acute assessment and treatment for patients requiring orthopedic services.

-  Provision of outpatient services including assessment, diagnosis and follow-up of patients

referred by General Practitioners or referral doctor.

-  Provision of elective surgical treatment according to Azraq hospital operation theater capacity related to orthopedics.

-  Maintenance of an accurate, legible and current medical record.

-  To assess and treat referred patients (with orthopedic conditions) by reviewing and understanding their medical backgrounds and examining them to assess their current condition and health.

-  Request, perform, interpret and analyze Lab tests (rationally) to diagnose patients' condition. Perform patient physical examination. Analyze test data or images to inform diagnosis or treatment.

-  Assess and examine patients to establish if a surgical procedure needed and prioritize procedures capacity inside the camp vs referrals to outside the camp.

-  Manage and monitor preoperative and postoperative treatments and procedures, such as use of sedatives and antibiotics

-  Council patients and their families before surgery to go through the procedures that will be carried out and provide reassurance.

-   Operate on patients to improve or restore functions, such as repair injuries or treat diseases

-   Follow established surgical techniques and strict sterilization during procedures

-   Refer patients to other medical specialists or other practitioners when necessary and perform the associated administrative work.

-   Work effectively in a multidisciplinary team, collaborating and liaising closely with colleagues including referral doctor and ER doctors

-   Provide support and advice to colleagues working in other specialties

-   Accurately recording patient interventions and referrals.

-   Keep the patient and/or his/her family informed about the illness and provide appropriate explanations about the treatment to follow.

-   Ensure a rational prescription of medicines from the essential drug list of the camp or provide a medical rational for an exceptional treatment.

-   Ensure the quality, disinfection and sterilization of the medical material under his/her responsibility and assure general compliance with standing hygiene standards.

-   When requested, perform training of the medical/paramedical team in order to optimize the quality of care.

-   Respect and follow the health standard operating procedures (reporting diseases with outbreak nature, HIS reporting, referral procedures, etc.). Ensures professional confidentiality is respected.

-   Additional Tasks when requested.

Qualifications:

- Orthopedic Surgery Board Certificate (Jordan or Arabic Council)

- Lisence to practice as an Orthopedic Surgeon (Issued by Ministry of Health)

- Membership in the Doctor's Syndicate as a specialist doctor in orthopedics

Deliverables:

- Medical Consultation in orthopedic specialty 

- Surgecial procedures relative to orthopedic surgery

Child Safeguarding

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Code of Conduct

It is our shared responsibility and obligation to prevent matters involving Sexual Exploitation & Abuse, trafficking in Persons, Child Safeguarding and any suggested violation to our Code of Conduct, which may involve Conflicts of Interest, Fraud, Corruption or Harassment.  If you see, hear or are made aware of any suggested activities then you have an obligation to report.

Compliance & Ethics

Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout International Medical Corps. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of International Medical Corps’ and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards.  Conducts work with the highest level of integrity. Communicates these values to staff and to partners and requires them to adhere to these values.

Equal Opportunities

International Medical Corps is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or status as a veteran.

This job description is subject to periodic review and adjustment in order to achieve International Medical Corps goals in Jordan, and any changes to the job description will be discussed and agreed

“I hereby certify that all the information provided through the application and CV are accurate and the supportive documents are available upon request, any false information provided will cause cancelation of the application and applicant will be subject to legal action”.

Our screening process will be on a rolling basis, once a candidate is selected the announcement will be closed.