REACHES Health Referent various roles
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Role: REACHES Health Referent (various roles)
Hours:Parttime 1 day a week
Pay: In the range of 200 GBP 350 GBP gross per day (depending on experience & professional background)
Duration: 31st October 2025 (with possibility of extension)
Location: Homeworking (with potential travel to Manchester UK and potential to undertake deployed overseas roles)
Can you use your health expertise to strengthen capacity of healthcare providers and contribute to improving quality of services in Sudan
UKMed is a humanitarian NGO that has been responding to disasters for thirty years. We train medical teams both in the UK and worldwide so they are ready to respond when epidemics conflict and natural disasters hit.
We are seeking a number of health professionals to join us as parttime Health Referents for our new remote TeleHealth and Capacity Building project in Sudan. The REACHES Referents will be coordinated by UKMeds Health Advisor for TeleHealth and will contribute to the provision of specialist advice and peertopeer support directly to Sudanese clinicians in two preidentified health facilitites on an ad hoc basis. The REACHES Referents will be part of a pool of clinical specialists to draw on for weekly MDT sessions across the two facilities and will be subject matter experts in their respective field of practice.
The REACHES Health Referents will bring specific technical expertise in a variety of health fields to ensure that clinicians and allied healthcare workers in the two Sudanese facilities receive professional development specialist advice continuous support and professional sparring ultimately ensuring that patients receive the best possible care.
We are looking for REACHES Referents with the following clinical backgrounds:
Nurses with speciality training in:
Emergency Department
Midwifery
Infection Prevention and Control
Medical Doctors with speciality training in:
Obs/ Gynae
Ear Nose and Throat
Infectious Diseases
Paediatrics
Surgeons with speciality training in:
Plastics (trauma related)
Ear Nose and Throat
Rehabilitation specialist:
Physiotherapist
As a REACHES Health Referent you will work closely with UKMeds Health Advisor for TeleHealth and the MDT leads to provide clinical / technical health expertise and advice contributing to our work through:
- Contributing to online sessions to discuss patient cases with Sudanese counterparts as needed.
- Providing ad hoc specialist advice on less complex patient cases in between the live reachback sessions as needed.
- Providing appropriate and contextualised clinical advise and guidance for Sudanese clinicians as well as signposting to recent developments and current best practice.
- Helping design SoPs policies and guidance documents for your field of expertise as appropriate
- Developing capacity building interventions (e.g. training sessions online learning packages coaching) to develop skills of Sudanese colleagues
- Contribution to reporting and documentation of REACHES project.
Our ideal candidates will be a highly skilled health professionals with experience of humanitarian health responses and delivering healthcare services in low resource environments. You will be available to contribute to online reachback sessions and capacity building activties as requested. For some roles this is anticipated to be 12 times a month and others may be less than this. You will be passionate about improving health services in Sudan and flexible to deliver advice and input remotely testing new tools and adaptable to a changing context.
We offer competitive remuneration and benefits along with a friendly working environment and the opportunity to make a real difference through your work.
How to apply
We strongly recommend that you read the Candidate Information Pack REACHES Health Referent before applying for this role.
Please apply below as soon as possible and no later thanFriday 7th March 2025.
Please make sure to upload your:
Updated CV
Cover letter (max 1 page) where you:
- State your motivation for becoming a REACHES Health Referent.
- Highlight the areas where you believe you can contribute (considering your professional background and expertise).
- Identify any areas where you feel you may need additional support.
- Participation in the REACHES Programme
We look forward to receiving your application and working together to strengthen healthcare services in Sudan!
UKMed is committed to safeguarding of our personnel and beneficiaries and has a zerotolerance approach to sexual exploitation and abuse. We conduct thorough vetting before any appointment is confirmed.
UKMed is committed to the principles of diversity equality and inclusion. We strive to provide an inclusive and supportive environment where employees feel respected and supported to be able to fulfil their potential.
Please note we are open to proposals to work from home if proposing to work from outside the UK you will need to be have no more than 2 hours time difference to the UK. If proposing to work from the UK you must have an existing right to work in the UK
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