Field Health Specialist
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Job #: |
req32766 |
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Organization: |
World Bank |
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Sector: |
Health & Safety |
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Grade: |
GF |
| Term Duration: | 3 years 0 months |
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Recruitment Type: |
Local Recruitment |
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Location: |
Istanbul,Turkiye |
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Required Language(s): |
English |
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Preferred Language(s): |
Russian |
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Closing Date: |
5/6/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC |
Description
Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. Visit www.worldbank.org.
The
World Bank Group’s Health and Safety Directorate (HSD) seeks to protect and
promote the health and safety of the World Bank Group (WBG) staff and their
immediate families wherever they may be, taking account of their individual
health, working environment, and job demands. HSD provides advice on health and
safety related matters to WBG offices worldwide.
HSD
consists of three functional units:
Personal Health and Wellness:
Facilitates and enables the delivery of health services and preventive health / health promotion programs to WBG staff and families living in HQ and over 120 Country Offices (COs) outside the United States, to include moving people temporarily or permanently to regions when needed services are not available locally
Occupational Health and Safety
Informed by a comprehensive risk register and through collaboration with sister units, provides an ongoing assessment of personal, occupational, and psychological health and safety risks for staff across the entire Bank, and recommends implementation of controls to mitigate such risks
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Provides direct short-term counseling and facilitates long-term counseling through external providers as needed by staff, and provides a variety of mental health resiliency training through seminars, educational series, and large group activities
General
Accountability:
The Field
Health Specialist is organizationally located within the Personal Health
and Wellness Unit (PHW) and reports to the Senior Field Health Specialist in
HSD HQ located in Washington DC. The incumbent
reports directly to the Senior Health Specialist. 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 multi-disciplinary health and
safety efforts across HSD.
Dimensions:
The incumbent possesses the technical
expertise to deliver services and support to staff who work in CO locations
with a high level of independence and professional autonomy. As such, the
incumbent requires minimal oversight while functioning in HSD programs, projects,
and outreach efforts. The incumbent is able to balance the work assigned by the
SHS (technical supervisor) as well as the Hub TL (operational supervisor) and where
and when applicable.
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.
Engages in meetings between key players in the various
regions and when assigned, participates in multi-disciplinary mission travel
efforts by providing occupational health risk assessments as part of the
information gathering and dissemination that take place during mission. Contributes to BTORs by submitting follow-up
recommendation based on assessments conducted during missions
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 WBG 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 pre-travel
consultation with HSD to all staff members throughout regions covered
- 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
Occupational Health and Safety:
- Collaborates with colleagues from OHS on multi-disciplinary joint
mission planning, and participates in missions as needed
- As directed, engages standardized and rational approach to PHW
mission travel:
- Follows managerial guidance regarding planning and coordination
of periodic multi-disciplinary team missions to various country office
(CO) locations within the regions covered by the various Hub teams
- During mission visits, PHW staff will assess the level of medical
care locally as well as the CO medical emergency response plan, be
present where and when appropriate to join environmental health and
safety assessments, psychosocial health risk assessments, preventive
health education and screening, promotion of the Bank’s Employee Health
and Wellness Program, and psychoeducational programming and presentations
to include domestic abuse prevention.
Mental Health and Wellbeing:
- Collaborates with colleagues from MHW during joint health and
wellness program and MHW program outreach efforts
Selection Criteria
- Master's degree with 5 years of experience or
equivalent combination of education and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing
- 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 multi-disciplinary
teams.
- Valid and current Registered Nurse licensure, certification, or
other professional recognition per local public health authority
requirements
- Able to take 24-hour nurse call duty assignment.
- Proficiency in written, spoken, and clinical
English.
- Ability to travel internationally as required.
Preferred Experience
- 5 or more years of experience working as in-house nurse for a large employer
- Demonstrated excellence in clinical judgement and decision-making
- Experience working with international organizations / multicultural populations
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural team environment
- Proficiency Russian and a local Central Asian language
World Bank Group Core Competencies
The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
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