Medical Doctor - Emergency Response

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in 1971. Today, MSF provides independent, impartial assistance in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, and exclusion from health care or natural disasters.

MSF in Lebanon is currently urgently looking for staff for its Emergency Response with Medical Mobile Units in Beirut, Chouf, Zahle and Bekaa

MSF is committed to achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion within its workforce irrespective of gender, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, culture, religious and ethnic backgrounds. All job applications will be treated in strictest confidence.

Starting date: ASAP

Type of contract: Intervention Fixed Term Contract, upon needs

Updated competitive salary package with benefits including allowances, medical coverage, and 5 weeks of paid leave per year

Place of work: One of the following areas: Beirut, Chouf, Zahle, Bekaa

Salary: 213,010,000 LBP per month (USD 2,380 per month)

Scope of responsibility: MSF

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 patients/beneficiaries health conditions.

Specific 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 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 in order to optimize the quality of care.
• Knows and ensures all MSF medical protocols are followed and implemented, checking universal precautions are followed at all times and reducing bio-hazard risks and improving infection control. Ensures 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.

Requirements

Education

• Essential: Diploma of Medicine from a recognized university
• Essential: Ministry of public health practice license as doctor in Lebanon
• Essential: Certificate of registration at the Lebanese order of physicians-LOP

Experience

• 2 year experience minimum as a Medical Doctor or in clinical work
• Desirable: Previous experience with MSF or other local and/or international NGOs.

Languages

• Essential: Full professional proficiency using the Arabic and English Language.
• Desirable: Elementary to limited professional proficiency using the French Language.

Knowledge

• Essential: Basic to intermediate computer literacy using MS-office applications (MS-Word, MS-Outlook, MS-Excel).

Competencies  

• Commitment
• Flexibility
• Stress Management
• Results
• Teamwork

• Service