Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors without Borders India (DWBI) is an international humanitarian medical aid organization working in more than 70 countries worldwide. Médecins Sans Frontières is neutral, impartial, independent, and not linked to any political party or governmental body. Our teams provide emergency medical assistance to people in need, irrespective of their nationality, race or religion. In 1999 MSF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as recognition for its medical work in several continents.

Position: Medical Doctor

Location of Job: DWBI Clinic, Mumbai ( Govandi)

Duration: 12 months (renewable)

Start Date: As soon as possible

Salary Package: INR 68697/- plus benefits

Closing date: 08 July 2016

Objectives:

·  To act as the focal point for the Doctors team for daily operational communication and updates

·  Provide quality clinical care to patients according to MSF international standard of good medical practice

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Main Tasks & Responsibilities:

Core responsibilities and tasks:

·  Provide outpatient/clinical consultations to all patients.

·  Provide management and follow up for HIV care, antiretroviral therapy (ART), DR-TB care, hepatitis C treatment, opportunistic infections treatment, and co-morbidity treatment following the I protocol for the project.

·  Conduct hospital visits, including discussion with referral hospital medical team as per schedule defined by clinical manager and also do medical home visits when needed.

·  Arrange referral activities and admissions for patients between referral hospital, diagnostic facilities, specialty center, and DWBI clinic.

·  To standby over the weekend, non-clinic hours, and public holidays for any emergency consultations for DWBI patients and emergency condition in general.

·  Reinforce adherence on the therapy, follow up of any adverse events including adverse events reporting, verifies the understanding of the patients with HIV, TB, opportunistic infections, and co-morbidities.

·  Participate in providing training, capacity building, and networking for internal/external partners relevant medical issues.

·  To document cases and reports for presentation/reporting/case discussion with headquarter (Brussels or Southern Africa Medical Unit) and prepare medical discussion with medical technical referent and relevant service components in the medical team.

·  Prepare and evaluate outpatient department (OPD) consultation and inpatient department (IPD) monitoring tool in collaboration with medical technical referent.

·  Participate in developing tools including but not limited to pharmacy management tool and data collection tool.

·  Contribute expertise in revising and updating medical protocols of the project in conjunction with medical technical referent.

·  To contribute towards medical forecasting related to drugs required for the project in collaboration with the pharmacist.

·  Provide medical expertise in training/educational activities and developing health education material about HIV, TB, Hepatitis, opportunistic infections, and co-morbidities for patients and their supporting families, NGO partners, and other DWBI target populations.

·  Collect all relevant medical data related to patient consultations for HIV, TB, DR-TB, Hepatitis, opportunistic infections, and co-morbidities using available tools such as Fuchia for HIV and DR-TB database/Koch 6 for drug-resistant TB.

·  To record all patient’s investigation reports (laboratory, microbiology, radiology, consultation answers) in the patient file and relevant data tool provided.

·  To search actively for information both local and external related to HIV, TB, hepatitis, opportunistic infections, co-morbidities, and other public health emergencies.

·  To participate in any relevant operational research activities, publications, and conferences, including writing publications and providing data analysis.

·  To be flexible to rotate in all areas of intervention of DWBI in Mumbai

·  To follow and implement DWBI infection control protocol in the project premises.

·  Given the nature of the activities of DWBI and according to circumstances, the employee may be asked to perform additional tasks not mentioned in this job description.

Key Requirements:

Qualifications

·  MBBS +Managerial experience,.

·  HIV/MDRTB Clinical experience preferred.

·  Excellent Reporting/writing skills in English.

·  Languages- English, Hindi/Marathi.

·  Computer Skills- MS word, Excel, PowerPoint and outlook.

Work Experience

·  At least 1 years experience in similar position is required.

·  NGO Experience is desirable

Specific skills

·  Ability to organize and prioritize workload & taking initiative when appropriate

·  Good spoken & written English; Essential good understanding of local language(s)

·  Able to integrate into a multi-cultural team and cooperate with co-workers

·  Able to work independently as well as part of a team

·  Ability to cope with stress

·  Good Punctuality and ability to act with responsibility

·  Demonstrates flexibility in taking up tasks outside of regular job responsibilities as required

·  Understanding of MS Office especially Word, Excel & PowerPoint

·  Respect for MSF Charter

·  No political involvement, open-minded, open to other cultures

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Please clearly state which position you are applying for ( Medical Doctor Clinic) and send CV and letter of motivation to apply for this position (with phone number) no later than 08 July 2016 to .

We do not use any external recruitment consultants.

Application without motivation letter will not be accepted.

Due to high volume of applicants only short-listed candidates will be contacted.