UN Volunteer Nurse: The United Nations Volunteers (UNV)
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: 5 January 2018
18 January 2018
UN VOLUNTEER DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENT
8 Host Agency/Host Institute: UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
The work of the UN Volunteer would support the raising of awareness of occupational health risks among UN personnel, and to deliver appropriate clinical, preventive, and occupational health services.
Under the direct supervision of the Medical Officer the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:
A. Perform clinical assessment of patients visiting the walk-in clinic: provide care/advice accordingly or facilitate referral to the Medical Officer or to an outside physician, as indicated.
B. Contribute to awareness and readiness of clients to travel on mission and reassignment, including administration of appropriate vaccines for international travel, and other travel medicine-related functions.
C. Support the development and maintenance of a health provider network within Thailand, and the Asia-Pacific region, including advocacy for volunteerism and collaboration within the UN system.
D. Design and deliver health education, training, promotion and awareness programmmes, liaising with national and local authorities as well as partner non-governmental organizations with a view to improving occupational health for UN staff. Share programmes with communality-based and national counterparts for use at the local and national levels.
E. Assist in developing and maintaining an efficient inventory and stock control of medical supplies; check expiration dates of drugs; and recommends acquisition of fresh supply to support daily operations.
F. Provides other regular nursing services, such as emergency or urgent care, medico-administrative tasks, and general support of the Medical Officer.
G. Perform other related duties as required
Furthermore, UN Volunteers are required to:
The assignment will be in Bangkok.
The contract lasts for 12 months with possibility of extensions subject to availability of funding, operational necessity and satisfactory performance. However, there is no expectation of renewal of the assignment.
Moving travel to duty station (if applicable) and a Settling-In-Grant will be provided in the event duty station is not within commuting distance from the place of recruitment. A Volunteer Living Allowance (VLA) of 47,507THB is provided monthly to cover housing, utilities and normal cost of living expenses. Well-being Differential of 15% (WBD-A) or 30% (WBD-B) of the VLA will apply, paid on a monthly basis, depending on the ICSC classification of the duty station.
Life, health and permanent disability insurance are included (health insurance for up to 3 dependents), as well as return travel of (if applicable) and resettlement allowance for satisfactory service.
Application Procedure:
* Not yet registered in the UNV Talent Pool?
Please first register your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/signup. Important: After creating your account, complete all sections of your profile and submit it. Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink. Lastly, select the special call to which you would like to apply.
* Already registered in the UNV Talent Pool?
Please first update your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/profile. Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink to select the special call to which you would like to apply.
This is a national UN Volunteer assignment, therefore only Thai nationals and legal residents in Thailand with the status of refugee or with the status of being stateless are eligible to apply.
Application deadline: 18 January 2018
Application code: THAR000240-2424
Disclaimer
The United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) is an equal opportunity programme which welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture.
