FO Nurse assistant – CO At MedGlobal

Job Title: FO Nurse assistant

Job Status: Full time (40 hrs per week)

Job location: Medellin, Colombia

Report to: Country Representative

ABOUT MEDGLOBAL

MedGlobal is a global humanitarian non-profit organization providing medical and health education services to people in need, including refugees and displaced persons, in disaster and underserved regions. The organization is composed of medical and public health professionals of diverse backgrounds.

CODE OF CONDUCT

MedGlobal Code of Conduct reflects the profession’s core set of beliefs and values of care, respect, trust, and integrity. These beliefs and values are fundamental to MedGlobal employees, volunteers, interns, consultants, officers’ coordinators, and directors to guide their practice and conduct. The Code is organized into categories, as follows:

1. Always act with fairness, honesty, integrity, and openness; respect the opinions of others and treat all with equality and dignity without regard to gender, race, color, creed, ancestry, place of origin, political beliefs, religion, marital status, disability, age, or sexual orientation.
2. Provide a positive and valued experience for those receiving service within and outside MedGlobal.

CHILD PROTECTION POLICY

Child abuse in all forms is unacceptable to MedGlobal, which recognizes its responsibility to protect children from harm in all areas of its work.

MedGlobal is committed to ensuring a child-safe environment and is applying a zero-tolerance approach towards any kind of child abuse and exploitation.

DISCRIMINATION, ABUSE AND HARASSMENT POLICY

MedGlobal provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and expressly prohibits and will not tolerate any form of discrimination, abuse, harassment (sexual or otherwise), based upon race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, citizenship status, disability, or military status. MedGlobal employees and related personnel must under no circumstances take part in any form of discrimination, harassment, or abuse (physical, sexual or verbal), intimidation or exploitation, or in any other way infringe the rights of others inside or outside the organization.

JOB SUMMARY

Nurse will be responsible to provide nursing care, treatment and follow-up of patients, according to doctors’ prescriptions, protocols applied in service and universal hygiene standards/precautions, in order to ensure the quality and continuity of care to patients attending.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES

• Organizing and carrying out care and treatments according to medical prescriptions, and assisting during consultations and other medical procedures.
• Ensure triage of patients in the waiting area and detect priority for acute/emergency cases. Carrying out first aid care and referring them to the doctor when necessary.
• Ensure all patients have their vital signs and all proper assessment before each consultation with a General Physician.
• Assist the general physician and the nutritionist in any medical activity.
• Knowing, promoting, implementing and following up the universal hygiene standards/ precautions, bio-hazard prevention and infection control. Ensure high standards of hygiene of his/her working environment.
• Perform cleaning and disinfection of biomedical equipment.
• Sending material to be sterilized and recuperating it from sterilization.
• Ensure the cleaning and disinfection of care areas, especially at the doctor room.
• Keep weekly inventory of medications and supplies and provide this information to the MedGlobal Project Coordinator.
• Ensure patient confidentiality at all times.
• Comply with MedGlobal policies, rules and regulations
• Contribute to MedGlobal social media presence.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3-5 years of experience supporting clinical processes, implementation of health projects, health reporting programs, and other.
• Professional card
• Computer literacy
• Previous NGO work.
• Experience with migrant and refugee populations.
• Team work.
• Working under pressure.
• Excellent communications skills.
• Detailed oriented.
• Ability to keep its superiors informed about project’s updates and progress.
• Ability to work independently, quickly, problem solve, anticipate challenges, and handle data with confidentiality.
• Strong skills working with a variety of systems and technologies, including but not limited to Google Suite, Microsoft office, Excel, Adobe PDF.

How to apply

To apply for this position, please send a cover letter, and resume to [email protected] with the subject line: “FO Nurse assistant – CO”. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and applicants are encouraged to apply early.

NOTE: only candidates who are located in Colombia – Medellin will be considered.