Ireland: Health Officer

Reports to: Health Advisor

Job location: 52-55 Camden Street, Dublin 2

Pay Band: 4(€37,019 - €45,730)

Contract: Permanent

The standard working day is 7 hours (35 hours per week), shorter working days may be considered for the right candidate*.*

Job Purpose: Reporting to the Health Adviser, the Health Officer will work as part of the Head Office Health team coordinating healthcare for Concern Worldwide international staff and their dependants. The role includes delivering health and wellbeing support to staff in all Concern’s locations and has both a medical and administrative focus. A large part of this role involves liaising between new staff and various medical facilities.

Key Responsibilities:

· Coordinate pre-employment medicals;

· Screen medical reports for staff;

· Provide support to staff who are unwell;

· Undertake health briefings with pre deployment staff, post assignment staff and with those returning following illness. This will be carried out remotely in most cases, via telephone, skype and email;

· Respond to health queries from staff;

· Deliver presentations and health briefings to staff and visitors to the field;

· Facilitation of wellbeing workshops;

· Monitor patterns of illness of staff overseas and on their return home;

· Develop and coordinate health action plans with staff where appropriate;

· Assist in provision of guidance for stress management and access to appropriate services. Aid the Health Advisor in the further development of programme for resilience building and management of stress across the organisation;

· Liaise with Concern’s insurer in relation to claims and renewals.

· Update medical kits and supplies for overseas as necessary, including the provision of PEP to fields as required;

· Provide appropriate assistance when a person is medically evacuated;

· Manage and maintain the medical filing system for current and ex-employees in a timely and efficient manner;

· Keep a record of, and report to management on any Health and Health and Safety issues including accidents;

· Provide advice and guidance to overseas national staff;

· Contribute to the development of policy and procedures within the Health Unit and the HR department;

· Provide cover for the Concern Emergency phone on a rota basis;

· Undertake specific projects as required;

· Keep up to date with current relevant research;

· At all times act within your scope of professional practice;

· Any other duties as required.

Skills and Experience Required:

Essential:

· A primary nursing qualification and on the NMBI live register;

· An interest in tropical health and infectious disease;

· Experience of compiling medical reports and maintaining confidentiality;

· Experience of setting up and streamlining management information systems and procedures;

· Strong knowledge of MS Office;

· Ability to facilitate workshops and group discussions;

· Excellent organisational and administration skills;

· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;

· Ability to work as part of a team and independently;

· Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines;

· Empathy with Concern’s mission and values;

· Willing to work flexible hours when necessary;

· Willingness to travel overseas if require.

Desirable:

· Experience in the areas of Public Health, Community Health, and /or Occupational Health;

· Stress Management training/qualification/experience would be an advantage;

· Previous experience working in an acute clinical environment in multi- disciplinary team;

· Experience of working in a developing country;

· French language skills.

Candidates must be legally entitled to work in Ireland at the time of application.

Concern is an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all section of the community.

Concern has a Programme Participant Protection Policy and an organisational Code of Conduct which have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Concern Staff Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the contents of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Programme Participant Protection Policy and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these two documents.

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Your Personal Data

During this job application, you will provide Concern with your personal data. Concern takes its responsibilities towards this personal data very seriously and is committed to complying with all relevant data protection legislation.

Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year. Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on ensuring that the name of any employee or volunteer (existing or new), does not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List).

Any offer of employment (either paid or voluntary) with Concern Worldwide will only be made following a successful clearance check being conducted on the applicant and such checks may be updated periodically during the course of the period of employment.

By submitting a formal application for paid or voluntary employment to Concern, you agree to Concern carrying out a clearance check as outlined above and that Concern will not proceed to recruit you should your name appear on any of the aforementioned lists

In certain circumstances, donors may request that personal data relating to employees to work on the activities that they fund be provided directly to them - so that they can perform their own counter terrorism checks. This may involve transferring some basic personal data outside the EEA. It will be a condition of your employment contract that Concern be allowed to share this information with institutional donors for these purposes.

For additional information please consult our web site or contact the Human Resource Division in our Head Office.

You have certain rights under data protection legislation. For more information on how to exercise those rights please visit www.concern.net/about/privacy

Please only apply for this position if you are satisfied with the proposed processing of your personal data as outlined above.

CVs should be submitted through our website at https://jobs.concern.net