Field Health Specialist

**Field Health Specialist**

Job #:
req30646
Organization:
World Bank
Sector:
Health & Safety
Grade:
GF
Term Duration:
3 years 0 months
Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment

**Location**:
Panama City,Panama
Required Language(s):
English, Spanish
Preferred Language(s):
Closing Date:
12/31/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

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 mínimal 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 instructionsRecommendations regarding
- up care once back at the duty station.

**Preventive Health and Wellness Promotion**
- Nurses work collaboratively with all