Field Health Specialist

Job Purpose:

The Field Health Specialist is organizationally located within the Personal Health and Wellness Unit (PHW) and reports to the Senior Field Health Specialist in Health and Safety Directorate (HSD) HQ located in Washington DC. The incumbent reports directly to the Senior Health Specialist (SHS)while working under the more general operational supervision of the Hub TL stationed in Singapore. As such the incumbent is responsible for technical work as assigned by the SHS for all general and day to day nurse specific duties and responsibilities and for Hub specific operational tasks as assigned by the Hub Team Lead in accordance with guidance from the HSD Manager of Operations in HQ who oversees all Hub activities through the Team Lead. The incumbent engages in collaborative multidisciplinary health and safety efforts across HSD.

Functions and Duties:

The incumbent delivers expert level nursing services and support to HSD management Hub TLs and stakeholders external to HSD when appropriate and when requested and/or required. Expertise includes a wide range of occupational general and emergency medicine issues that affect all levels and categories of employees including executive management. The incumbent must recognize multicultural staff living in or coming from various diverse backgrounds and ensure the exercise of continual sensitivity to these issues as they deal with sometimes very personal issues. Within these parameters the incumbent has a high level of independence and autonomy to act to ensure that the clinical mission of the unit is accomplished.

Personal Health and Wellness:

• Contributes to and participates in the activities of the nurse managed programs:
• Medical Evacuation
• Nurses appropriately review medical information on emerging cases communicate with staff members and treating physicians as needed and help confirm that needed care cannot be delivered locally.
• When appropriate medical care cannot be delivered locally nurses will ensure that for all eligible cases Intl SOS may be engaged through an established activation process.
• The nurses will coordinate with ISOS to help determine.
• :Appropriate destination of care center of medical excellence
• Appropriate travel recommendations
• The need for ongoing ISOS case management at the center of medical excellence including medical monitoring and discharge instructions Recommendations regarding follow up care once back at the duty station.
• Preventive Health and Wellness Promotion.
• Nurses work collaboratively with all members to establish and sustain a culture of health and safety in the corporation and in country offices
• .Promote Country Office staff engagement and in myriad health safety and wellness/wellbeing outreach efforts such as vaccination campaigns education about chronic disease management and so forth
• Motivate staff engagement in various HSD outreach offerings such as CPR/AED training the Employee Health and Wellness Program and MHW Unit educational lectures and webinars
• Country Office Oriented Travel Medicine:
• Promulgates the importance of pretravel consultation with HSD to all staff members throughout regions cover
• Delivers travel medicine services in Hub locations as well as regions with no direct on the ground HSD assets
• Provides guidance and expertise when needed regarding specific health and safety risks that must be addressed in preparing staff for relocation to specific regions
• Provides programmatic risk assessment and medical surveillance when appropriate to include infectious disease outbreaks
• Engages in meetings between key players in the various regions and when assigned participates in multidisciplinary mission travel efforts by providing occupational health risk assessments as part of the information gathering and dissemination that take place during mission.

Selection Criteria

• Masters degree with 5 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Strong theoretical base in subject area combining a broad grasp of relevant theory and principles and of involved practices and precedent.
• Ability to translate theory into practical applications in context of Bank work.
• Ability to participate in multidisciplinary teams.
• Valid and current Registered Nurse licensure certification or other professional recognition per local public health authority requirements
• Able to take 24hour nurse call duty assignment
• Proficiency in written spoken and clinical English
• Ability to travel internationally as required

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