Wings of Healing started medical missions in Ethiopia 2011. We conducted 2 medical campaigns every year till 2015. Since then we carried more frequent campaigns. Up to July 2021, WOH carried out over 40 medical missions and performed over 2600 surgical procedures for pelvic organ prolapse and over 100 procedures for different types of gynaecological cancer. We focus on providing care in the rural areas where expertise and facilities are limited. WOH provides all the surgical material required and provided assistance for patients’ travel. During many campaigns, patients received as well food and clothes. We are currently focusing on training local doctors and nurses in Ethiopia to deliver the service in many parts of the country. We have provided cervical screening to over 10,000 women in Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charities and many local hospitals and Health Centres. This has prevented at least 3,000 cases of cervical cancer.

Responsibilities

Specific responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Provide essential lifesaving primary health care services to displaced people and people who have no access to health services.
• Provide technical support and participating in essential lifesaving primary health care services to people who have no access to primary health care services in IDPs and far to reach areas.
• Improving basic preventive health care at community level with emphasis health, immunization, and nutrition services.
• Conduct & undertake PHC like consultation & provide proper treatment based on the protocol
• Strengthening of linkages and coordination mechanisms between community and the Woreda health bureaus.
• Strengthening of early referrals mechanism.
• Train and support the HEWs in case management and follow-up according to national guidelines.
• Train and support community-based volunteer health workers for the project implementation
• Assisting the planning and promotion of awareness creation on nutrition and preventative health care issues in the community.
• Control the supply of equipments & check the medication and medical supply stock out
• Support the health professionals assigned in the IDP clinics
• Asses and work with possible resource mobilization with WOH
• identify and priorities major health issues regularly and communicate with relevant stakeholders
• Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings, workshops, etc.
• Determining project changes like budget revisions are well done according to the budget time frame and activity and communicate to the project coordinator

Job Requirement

• Bsc/Msc in nursing with a minimum of two years of experience for Bsc and one year for Msc
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong interpersonal skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other information processing software.
• Strong organizational skills, and ability to work independently with minimal guidance.
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Amharic.

Place of work: Tigray, Ethiopia