Community Care Centre Health Supervisor

Contract Grade: Grade A

Contract Length: 9 months

Date Needed By: ASAP

New Post or Replacement: New post

Accompanied / Unaccompanied: Unaccompanied

Job Location: One role based in Monrovia and other role based in Grand Bassa.

Reports To:  Emergency Coordinator

Responsible for: Community Care Centre Supervisors.

Liaises with: Country Director, Assistant Country Director Programmes, Emergency Programme Managers, and Coordinators, Technical Advisers and Programme Partners

Job Purpose:

Responsible for management of 5 x Community Care Centres CCs with focus on protocols, patient care and Infection Prevention Control.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Manage Community Care Centre supervisors and support Community Care Centre health workers

• Ensure protocols for Community Care Centre are in place and implemented.

• Ensure Community health workers and carers are trained on Infection Prevention Control and basic care.

• Ensure Infection Prevention Control protocols strictly observed

• Provide support to Public Health Unit officers-in-charge on triage and basic primary health services

PERSON SPECIFICATION

ESSENTIAL

Education, Qualifications & Experience Required:

• Relevant qualification in Nursing or Public Health or other relevant discipline
• Practicing clinical nurse w/ infection prevention control experience;

Desirable:

• Overseas experience preferred but not necessary (clinical nurse with recent practice experience who knows CMAM or CCM is a distinct advantage.

Special Skills, Aptitude or Personality Requirements:

• Excellent English communication skills
• Ability to work with a multi-national team in an emergency environment
• Ability to manage multiple job tasks
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Ability to act as part of a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload, using initiative when appropriate
• Ability to cope with stress, work under pressure often to strict deadlines
• Self-motivated, progressive and proactive.

All applications should be submitted through our website at https://jobs.concern.net.

CV’s should be no more than 4 pages in length.

Due to the urgency of this position, applications will be short listed on a regular basis and we may offer posts before the closing date.

Concern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.

Concern has a Staff Code of Conduct and a Programme Participant Protection Policy which have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organization, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context staff have a responsibility to the organization to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Concern Staff Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment.   By signing the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Concern Staff Code of Conduct candidates acknowledge that they have understood the contents of both the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and the Programme Participant Protection Policy and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these two documents.

Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year. Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on Concern ensuring that the names of any new employee or volunteer do not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List). Any offer of employment (either paid or voluntary) with Concern Worldwide will not be made pending a clearance check being conducted on the applicant. For additional information please consult our web site or contact the Human Resource Division in our Head Office.

Concern Worldwide is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.