The School of St Jude
HEALTH CHECK TEAM 2018
The School of St Jude
is a charity funded NGO that provides a FREE, high-quality education to over
1,800 primary and secondary children from the poorest communities in Arusha.
The School is growing
fast and we need more human resources to sustain our needs and be able to
fulfill our mission. We are seeking volunteers to fill positions in Arusha,
Tanzania at the School of St Jude.
Job Purpose:
To be part of a health check team to provide
support to the Student Welfare team in identifying students who may have health
problems that could potentially affect the student’s ability to learn and reach
their full potential, and to provide advice.
Key Responsibilities:
Under the direction of the Team Leader and
Community Relations Manager, you will be responsible for working as part of the
team, contributing your expertise and professionalism to undertake the health
checks which include:
·
Height and weight
measurements
·
Vision testing
·
Hearing screening
·
A brief physical
examination
·
Awareness of signs
indicating students’ emotional wellbeing
·
Documentation of
findings and recommendations
You are required to follow standard protocols
and procedures regarding the common conditions seen during health checks and
provide advice and support to Welfare staff and students identified with
specific, less common and more serious issues.
Qualifications, Skills & Attributes:
·
Current registration
with relevant health professional body, where applicable for the specific
clinical roles (see Skills and Competence below)
·
A current
police/working with children check
·
The ability to work
effectively in a team with people you may not know in an unfamiliar and often
challenging environment
Skills and Competence:
There are a number of
types of volunteers needed:
·
Health professionals
with experience in undertaking medical assessments of children and/or
adolescents. This may include, but is not limited to, experienced general
practitioners, nurse practitioners with expertise in child health or
pediatricians (6 positions).
·
Health professionals
who can undertake vision assessments. This may include, but is not limited to
optometrists, orthoptists, ophthalmologists, nurses (3 positions).
·
Health professionals
who can undertake and interpret results of hearing screening and, depending on
equipment available to them, hearing testing.
·
Individuals who are
highly organized and enjoy working with children and adolescents (6 positions).
An understanding of medical terminology is desirable, as are skills and
experience working with people with disabilities such as vision impairment and
cerebral palsy. Allied health professionals such as physiotherapists,
occupational therapists, nurses or students studying a health profession may be
interested in this role, as may anyone with these attributes. Individuals with
experience in psychology and/or social work, particularly in cross cultural
environments will also be considered.
St Judes is situated
in the town of Arusha, the gateway to popular East African National Parks and
game reserves such as Ngorongoro Crater, the vast plains of the Serengeti, Lake
Manyara, Tarangire and Arusha National Park, so you can also experience the
beauty of Africa before and/or after volunteering at the school.
Please download
our general information pack about
medical checks.
For further
information about what the medical checks involve please contact Dr Philippa
Binns pipbinns@gmail.com.Or Charlotte
Peyrat-Vaganay charlotte.p@schoolofstjude.co.tz (Community Relations Manager at St Jude’s).
How to apply
Interested Candidates
for this job are kindly requested to send their CV accompanied by a cover
letter to recruitment@schoolofstjude.co.tz with a cc to pipbinns@gmail.com and charlotte.p@schoolofstjude.co.tz Applications should be sent by September 30th, 2017. Subject line must include the
reference number SOSJ/CR/03/17
Only shortlisted candidates
will be contacted.
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