Senior Advisor Health in Emergencies (Medical)
Norwegian Red Cross
- Oslo
- Fast
- Fulltid
- Define and design medical clinical standards including admission criteria, medical protocols, medical guidelines
- Quality assurance of medical acts performed in the health facilities deployed from the clinical perspective to ensure a holistic approach to the services delivered.
- Contributes to the development of the Operational framework (Health) and is part of the NorCross health network.
- Maintenance, development and preparedness of medical aspects of the surge deployments in health emergencies and health in emergencies in close cooperation with the Senior Advisor Health in Emergencies (Clinical)
- Seeking complementarity, alignment and collaboration with clinical nursing and related public health in emergency initiatives and interventions.
- Provide technical requirement related to medical aspects for the recruitment processes of delegates and to compose clinical team for emergency operations
- Focal point for staff health and technical reference for medical delegates for emergency operations.
- Can be called upon to support NorCross RO/CO, to participate in or lead the Task Force or surge missions and for leading operations.
- Medical doctor with minimum 5 years clinical experience as GP, internal medicine, surgery, anaesthetic, gynaecology, or paediatrics.
- Minimum 5 years of professional, operational experience in health in emergencies and health emergencies with relevant program management or technical advisory roles at field level
- Experience with infection prevention and control
- Experience working on the policy development and provision of relevant trainings
- Experience with project/programme management.
- Experience in project cycle management particularly designing, implementing and managing in complex health in emergencies projects and programmes, both in long-term- and recovery programmes as well as response operations
- Updated knowledge on status and trends in medical aspects of the clinical health in emergencies.
- Interest and ability to increase and gather knowledge in medical aspects of health in emergencies
- Interest and ability to engage with external actors, incl. academia, technology providers, suppliers of equipment and services, to develop approaches, tools, etc.
- Knowledge of WHO Emergency Medical Teams initiative and standards
- Experience and ability to work under stress and support others working under stress
- Understanding of crises and operations management
- Understanding of information technology and how to make use of it for health in emergencies.
- Fluency in English. Willingness to obtain working proficiency in Norwegian. Norwegian skills are an asset.
- Willing to extensive travel in relation with emergency responses.
- Take initiative and accept the responsibility for results
- Collaborate and share competency
- Think systematically
- Behave flexibly
- Manage pressure
- Build networks and relations
- Communicate effectively
- Think holistically
- Identify solutions
- Make decisions
- Execute
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