Project Officer - Beirut and Mount Lebanon

Background:

The project officer will work under the direct supervision and reports to the Senior Public Health Officer. S/he is a member of the health team that includes him/herself, the Medical Advisor, Senior Medical Advisor, Senior Public Health Officer, and Health Coordinator.

Health program provides both technical and financial support to local primary health care centers to enable provision of affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare services to refugee and vulnerable host population. It also provides secondary healthcare services through surgical campaigns tackling specific conditions.

Job Purpose:

Play an important role in the project, driving everything forward from planning to implementation, in coordination with the consulted medical advisor. He/ she will be responsible for patients’ referral for surgeries. Also, He/she will overview and help in the following up with the patients before, during and after surgeries.

Main Responsibilities:

1. Coordination
   1.  Field Visits
      1. S/he will organize the schedule for visits to each PHCC/hospital, ensuring all logistics requirements are addressed in due time
      2. S/he will schedule the appointments for referrals in coordination with both the patient and the PHCCs/ Hospitals
      3. S/he will ensure up-to-date communication of the date of the visit to all relevant stakeholders (Patient, PHCCs, and IMC management).
   2. Patient Follow up
      1. S/he will ensure timely follow up on diagnostic results making sure to keep a copy of these results in the patient medical record notifying the medical advisor of their availability
      2. S/he will coordinate with the patient, surgeon, and hospital to schedule an appointment for surgery. Will develop a tool to keep track of initial consultations’ date and time and place, date of surgery, and dates of follow up appointments for each patient
   3. S/he should report, on the spot, any challenges, errors, or gaps occurring during implementation to IMC Senior Medical Advisor via both verbal and written communication

2. Clinical Duties
   1. Patient Clinical Assessment (where needed)

1. 1. S/he will fill out a complete medical record for each patient undergoing an assessment. This includes: full demographic information, past medical and surgical history, present medical history, best known medication history, allergy history and vital signs. Any referral slips, medication prescriptions, or diagnostics results presented by the patient should be copied and kept within the medical record
   2. Assist the Medical Advisor during examination
   3. S/he will ensure that the patient and the care giver understand the logistic and medical instructions all through, documenting and reporting any challenge encountered
   4. S/he will obtain the treating surgeon\specialist medical report about surgery\ intervention done and immediate postoperative \ post procedure outcome for each patient, keeping the report in the patient’s medical record
   5. S/he will obtain the final medical report, based on IMC report form, from the treating physician following the last consultation. This report is to be kept in the medical record

2. General
   1. Perform other duties as requested by line manager
   2. Adhere to all of IMC’s policies and procedures, including Code of Conduct and Security SOP.
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Experience:

2 years of clinical experience in a healthcare facility (hospital/ Primary healthcare center)

Clinical experience within pediatric specialty; familiarity with congenital conditions

Project Management experience

Competencies:

Professional Skills

• Ability to collect complete history assessment during screening phase
• Ability to perform Focused Physical Assessment during screening phase

Personal Skills

• Excellent communication
• Highly organized
• Able to work within a team and under stress
• Good negotiating skills

Language and Computer Skills

1. Good command of written and spoken Arabic and English.
2. Excellent command of Microsoft Word and Excel, and ability to maintain electronic databases.

General specifications for all positions:

• Experience in working closely with community members throughout a program cycle

• Experience in or understanding of program accountability principles
• Knowledge of, respect and empathy for the communities we are working with
• Commitment to championing community and partner points of view
• Strong understanding of the project cycle and of M&E systems
• Good interpersonal and influencing skills
• Non-discriminatory and readiness to involve men, women, girls and boys from diverse backgrounds, particularly the most marginalized segments of the community
• Very good listening and facilitation skills – capable of managing and facilitating group discussions with program participants, local officials, partners and all levels of staff
• Ability to mobilize people – to develop and maintain relationships with staff and communities to ensure their participation in International Medical Corps ways of working