Daily Worker/Locum Emergency Medical Technician at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: –

Patient centered care

• As a health care professional inform and educate your patient and provide medical assistance with fairness and equity
• All procedures and treatments recommended must be with the intention to do the most good for the patient.

Ensure the quality of triage

• To identify the most severe cases requiring priority attention (Trauma Room).

Ambulance and ER

• Perform patient assessments, including physical examination of patients
• Provide First Aid, Basic Life Support including but not limited to airway management, circulatory and shock management, clinical assessment, orthopedic care, and patient extrication and safety.

Mass Casualty incidents

• Ensure team and patients safety during Mass casualty incidents.
• Ensure availability of both medical and logistics materials during MCI’s
• Ensure triaging and management of the patients according to triage category.
• Ensure proper documentation and handover.

Emergency Medical Dispatch activities:

• Identifies and localizes the victim
• Evaluates the degree of emergency and gives counsel while awaiting the ambulance
• Dispatches the ambulance and receives the complementary information from the ambulance team
• Prepare the patient’s admission Ensuring accurate and complete documentation
• Complete, comprehensive documentation of patient condition, all interventions and advice provided in the patient forms and/or medical legal documents as per protocols.
• Ensure proper documentation of the activities: fill in registers, informatic files.

Requirements

Education

• Essential: recognized EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) degree/diploma

Experience

• Desirable: 2 years of previous experience and previous experience in other NGO’s.

Email: msff-kenya-recruitment@paris.msf.org