PHYSIOTHERAPIST

About Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Doctors Without Borders) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural or man-made disasters to populations in danger in more than 70 countries.

Job Summary

Following medical prescription, plan and carry out individual treatment programmes, by assessing patients’ physical state, in order to maintain, improve or rehabilitate the physical well-being of the patient and prevent physical handicaps.

Duties & Responsibilities

·      Assess patient physical capacities, using different procedures in order to set up treatment objectives with the patient and therefore improve patient's health and wellbeing

·      Elaborate and implement physiotherapy programmes, including physiotherapy exercises, manipulations, massages, education, utilization of physiotherapy devices and orthopaedic equipment, educating and advising patients and their careers on how to prevent and/or improve conditions, in order to accelerate and improve activity results

·      Train patients and care-takers on how to avoid injury in order to create preventive behaviours

·      Actively monitor and report physiotherapy activities (correctly filling in patient files, forms, statistics, and reports) and analyse these statistics in order to improve quality service, preserving patient’s data traceability

·      Take care of physiotherapy equipment, managing the stock, making orders according to activity and cleaning up the equipment, in order to ensure its continuous availability and quality of service

·      Report to the line manager any problem arising in the service, especially the loss/ robbery/damage of medical equipment or medicines in order to implement the appropriate measures

·      Give regular feedback to the line manager and report directly any issue or incident

·      In order to ensure the coverage of the human resources needs and maintain high standards of quality, organise and coordinate the activities of team supervised (week’s schedule, annual leave, absences, etc.), communicate with the HR Admin department all relevant information in due time, evaluate performance, define and ensure the needs for training

·      Perform hands on tasks as part of the team whenever required or needed in order to optimize the resources and to contribute with his/her knowledge and experience

·      Participate in monthly reports according to guidelines

Job Requirements

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Education

·      High school diploma (12^th class) essential

·      University degree desirable

·      Physiotherapist certification essential

Experience

·      Other experience in similar position essential

·      MSF or NGO experience desirable

Languages

·      Dari/Pashtu: oral and written essential

·      English: oral preferred

Working hours

Working hours: Full Time 40 hours a week: 5 days a week

Salary will be paid according to MSF salary grid 

Submission Guideline

Application

The interested candidates should submit their applications before the 05/03/2021 at 4 pm with the CV, motivation letter, including references details and copy of the tazkira, to Médecins Sans Frontières, Administration department Kunduz Project via:

-      E-mail : msf-kunduz-admin@msf.org

-      In a sealed envelope at Médecins sans Frontières, Purgul street (behind ladies hostel) MSF Clinic, Kunduz City

The reference “PHYSIOTHERAPIST” must be stated in the application to be valid (object of the email or on the envelope). If you do not clearly state the position for which you are applying & attach the required diploma & other supporting documents, your application may not be considered.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

MSF does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. All applications are free for all candidates and no one should require any payment or compensation during the recruitment process. May the candidate be asked for any fee, he/she must report to MSF Administration through the recruitment contact

Functional Area

Health/Medical

Countries

Submission Email

msf-kunduz-admin@msf.org

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