HU Field Hospital Anesthetist at Save the Children

Job Description (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organization that promotes children’s rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries ROLE PURPOSE: As part of our humanitarian ambition and global strategy, Save the Children has implemented the Global Expertise Humanitarian Surge Platform (GEHSP) to further improve the efficient deployment of high-quality surge staff to support the delivery of our Humanitarian Responses directly and in collaboration with SCI partners. This role will be rapidly deployed by the GEHSP to support the implementation of the response team activities in quickly developing humanitarian-responses.The Emergency Health Unit (EHU) was established in as a dedicated humanitarian operational capability within Save the Children (SC). It consists of experienced multidisciplinary and operational technical teams that are internationally mobile and who can provide timely, high quality health interventions in some of the hardest places to work, where the needs for children are the greatest.In , the EHU developed a dedicated field hospital capability in recognition of the unmet needs by actors delivering secondary and primary level care during humanitarian responses. The focus of the field hospital is on the provision of specialist Maternal, New-born and Child Health care, which complements their already pre-existing primary health care capability. The field hospital can provide inpatient care for mothers, newborns, and children, with a specialist emergency obstetric surgical capability, alongside emergency and outpatient care (more information the EHU Field Hospital see here).The post holder must be willing to deploy at short notice (< 72 hrs) for up to 12 weeks at a timeEXPERIENCE AND SKILLSEssential Up to date evidence of current licence and registration to practice.Minimum of 2 years’ experience practising independently as an anaesthetist (i.e., does not require supervision)Minimum of three months’ work/volunteering in Field hospital or Low middle Income Countries (LMIC)Ability and willingness to travel to remote and insecure locations for periods of time and on short noticeWillingness to work in unstable areasEvidenced of in date training in advanced life support (adult, paediatric and neonatal) or equivalent.Strong communication skills, with an excellent level of spoken and written English.Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).Flexible and able to manage stress.Ability to work and maintain a positive team dynamic in an insecure environment.Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staffDemonstrated ability to work in a multicultural environment and establish harmonious and effective working relationships both inside and outside the organization.Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently under difficult conditions.Creativity and the ability to work with limited resourcesAbility to reflect and learn from personal and program performance and act on lessons learned. Desirable Familiar with anesthesia in austere environments.Previous experience of NGO work in humanitarian settings.Experience supervising medical teams.Working knowledge of French, Arabic or SpanishExperience in other relevant area: general practice, general medicine, or nutritionStrong knowledge of Save the Children systems and ways of working