18 Mar 2011

Clinical Emergency Care Advisor: International Emergency Medicine Doctors Without Borders (MSF) – Brussels

Medecins Sans Frontieres – Brussels, Bruxelles, Belgium

Job Description

Job description

•    Advise the HR department on recruitment events, recruitment criteria
of international staff, matching for field positions and training.
•    Develop recommendations for ED design and patient flow, biomedical
equipment, essential drug list, staffing, national staff training, triage,
multiple casualty incident management, clinical expertise, treatment
protocols and clinical pathways.
•    Promote emergency care in the organisation
•    Develop a network of emergency care professionals
•    Analysis and reporting of emergency care data
•    Field visits to emergency care projects (minimum 4 months a year)
•    Missions to assess potential for emergency care projects
•    Clinical work, according to needs, in major disasters (i.e. Haiti
earthquake)

Current emergency care projects

•    Pakistan: Timurgara, Dargai, Swat
•    Afghanistan: Kabul, Lashkar Gah, Kunduz
•    Iraq: Basra, Baghdad
•    Haiti: Cité Soleil, Martissant, Sarthe

Profile

•    Medical Doctor, clinical expertise in Emergency Medicine
•    Experience in Intensive Care
•    Work experience in the developing world, MSF experience is an asset
•    Good knowledge of English, knowledge of French or Arabic is an asset

Conditions

•    Based in MSF-OCB headquarter in Brussels, Belgium (non-negotiable)
•    Full-time position (part-time for 20-30% clinical activities
negotiable)
•    Salary according to MSF-OCB scale (net salary between 2000 and 2500
euros)
•    Medical insurance included
•    Application before 18th March 2011 (introduction letter and
curriculum vitae), sent to caroline.maes@brussels.msf.org
•    Start date: April 2011 or ASAP (negotiable providing a handover can
take place in Brussels in April)

This represents a great opportunity to take part in a huge humanitarian
effort and to improve the quality of emergency care in many projects around
the world.

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Sebastian Spencer MD MSc
Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care
HQ and Expatriate Health
Médecins Sans Frontières
Operational Centre Brussels
T: +3224747418
M: +32476647239
E: sebastian.spencer@brussels.msf.org