CHARITY JOBS IN AFRICA

Organization: GOAL
Country: Liberia, Sierra Leone
Closing date: 30 Oct 2014

****Job Title:**** Ebola Virus Disease Centre Medical Coordinator

****Location:**** Liberia or Sierra Leone

****Contract Duration:****3-6 months

****Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone (SL) and Liberia and GOALs Response to Date****

The 2014 Ebola outbreak is the largest Ebola outbreak in history and the first in West Africa. The current outbreak is affecting multiple countries in West Africa with Sierra Leone/Liberia first reporting cases in March of this year. As of September of this year Liberia has reported over 3,000 cases with Sierra Leone reporting over 2.500 cases. Based on current rates of infection it is expected that case numbers will climb significantly in the current months. GOAL has been working in Sierra Leone for several years now and has been active in the Ebola Health response since the outbreak was declared. Due to the scale of the outbreak in Liberia GOAL has decided to establish a response in Liberia to provide assistance to the large numbers of people who have become infected in recent weeks and are expected to be infected in the coming weeks and months ahead.

****Summary of Role:****The EVD Centre Medical Coordinator will be responsible for overseeing the operation of GOALs Ebola Medical Treatment Facility in Ebola.

****Key Responsibilities****

• Overall Management of EVD Centre (s) and ensuring that clinical care and infection control is of a minimum acceptable standard.
• Ensure that EVD Centre infection control and safety procedures are in place and documented.
• Ensure that standards of patient care and all appropriate protocols are in place and being implemented in the EVD Centre.
• Ensure that all staff have been provided with appropriate training on infection control and risk reduction management and that on the job training is ongoing and part of day to day practice.
• Infection Control equipment is in place and being used appropriately by all clinical staff.
• Ensure that all logistics, supplies are in place and that appropriate supply chain is in place.
• Provide training and de-briefing for all health and other Ebola Centre staff.
• Provide direct clinical care as required based on patient need and patient load.
• Provide technical support and oversight for all elements of managing the EVD Treatment Centre including waste disposal, water supply and infection control parameters and provide support to technical staff in managing this.
• Ensure that any possible risk exposure by staff to possible infection is dealt with promptly.

****Requirements****

1. Experienced and skilled Nurse or Doctor ideally with relevant skills in infectious diseases/infection control in an acute clinical setting
2. Experience of working in challenging acute clinical settings
3. Ideally at least 1-2 years working in a health humanitarian contexts; infectious disease outbreaks or medical emergency response.
4. Relevant people management skills and providing direction for a multi-disciplinary team
5. Experience in coordination
6. Excellent IT and report writing skills
7. Ability to work in a difficult situation and deal with challenging clinical settings.

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