Medical Officer - TARA Homes for Children
About the organisation:
TARA is an NGO offering a residential service with an emphasis on education for street children and abandoned children. We run 4 homes: TARA Boys (6-18 years old boys), TARA Girls (6-18 years old girls), TARA Tots (2-10 years old children) and TARA Big Birds (after care program for young adults). In our homes, we ensure quality education, security, complete health care and a real opportunity to carve a bright future. Our homes are not institutions! They are meant to host no more than 20 children, to ensure a violence-free, family-like environment.
Job summary:
The Medical Officer is responsible of the health of all beneficiaries, instructing the staff on medical treatments, liaising with the medical partners of TARA.
Required qualifications:
Bachelor of nursing course/ Bachelor degree in medical science/ Bachelors or Masters degree in Social Work or related disciplines
Good written and spoken English
High sense of organisation (self-organisation, team coordination)
Particularities dues to working in a residential care program:
Children homes are open 24/7
Medical officer can be called for emergencies on Sunday if required (on an exceptional basis)
Missions:
Prevention and Care
Ensure check-up at arrival and related follow-up
Identify medical problems and take the required actions in coordination with the Homes Managers
Manage and update children’s individual health books (vaccinations, medical appointments, diseases, prescriptions…)
Ensure that all homes have an appropriate medical kit with proper instructions
Deliver certain treatments after being properly trained (ex: physiotherapy exercises)
Maintain first-aid kits and medicine stocks in the homes
Organise in coordination with the teams actions of preventive health care, both individual and collective: health education, hygiene, prevention of infective diseases, sexual education…
Coordination with our medical partners
Refer to medical partners as per children’s needs, including taking appointments, commuting the child and attend the appointments
Ensure follow-up, as prescribed by the medical partners and be accountable to them
Visit hospitalised children
Institutional work
Participate to staff meetings of each home on alternate weeks
Train staff to first aid and primary treatment
Location:
South Delhi
Salary:
Undisclosed
Working days:
Full time –Monday1 PM to 7PM, Tuesday 10AM to 6PM, Wednesday to Saturday 1PM to 7PM
Timings may vary depending on the medical appointments and emergencies
Leaves:
5 weeks a year
Procedure to apply for the job:
Send your CV to basanti@taraindia.org along with a letter answers to the following questions:
If a child has fever, what do you do?
What would you do if you find a child crying?
How would you explain to children the importance of brushing their teeth?
You need to inject a child and he is in panic. How do you deal with this?