Clinical fellowships 

Three quick questions

Are you a junior doctor or nurse with a passion for delivering holistic healthcare to vulnerable patient groups?

Are you available for a year to live in at our Olongapo base?

And could you grow a particular heart for detainees?

Yes, yes and yes?

Then why not have a think about serving with us, a growing non-government organisation (NGO) with a heart for detainees?

Want to know more?

Then read on! The staff at our exciting residential & clinical base in the centre of Olongapo have exciting, varied lives:-

• mixing with other volunteers, trainees and staff

• treating and reaching out to patients - all detainees, ex-detainees or their dependents

Job description

Your hours

• This is a full-time residential role for a fixed period of up to one year. Though negotiable, a typical breakdown of duties is as follows:

  • clinical: 3 days per week

  • clinical administration: 0.5 days per week

  • quality improvement: 1 day per week

  • personal study: 0.5 days per week

Your oversight

• You will work in cooperation with the rest of the Olongapo-based staff, sharing tasks when skill mixes overlap and at times of high demand.

• You will be line managed by our chief medical officer.

Your duties

• Clinical healthcare of detainees, ex-detainees and their dependents

• Clinical administration

• Quality improvement of one of our services - healthcare, expertise, advocacy, research or training - determined by your interests.

• Other: timely completion of other suitable tasks, allocated at daily meeting

• Team work: including attending (and sometimes leading) daily team meetings

  Have a read of this day-in-the-life of one of our pandemic fellows who majored in advocacy! Of course, things are far more hands-on now.

Your obligations

• Food: you will supply and pay for your own food

• Insurance: you will obtain and fund your own travel and medical insurance

• Safeguarding: you will pay for your disclosure and barring service (DBS) or equivalent check

• Travel: you will pay for your own travel, except for local work travel

• Utilities: a reasonable charge will be made for your use of electricity, gas and water

• Visas: you will pay for your visas

Your expectations

• Accommodation: free furnished bedroom with night time air conditioning, and use of staff kitchen and living room. Occasionally for short periods, it may be necessary to share your room with another volunteer of the same gender.

• Annual leave:-

  • six weeks per year

  • we also observe all Philippine public holidays

• Appraisal: supportive appraisal process

• Care: kind and considerate line management

• Occupational health: free annual check-up, as-required medical advice, and use of on-site gym

• Probationary period: three months

• Salary: this is a voluntary role suitable for a tourist visa

• Training:

  • access to our well stocked reference health and social care library

  • free attendance at certain external training events at our base

  • in-house training program

  • a certificate and reference upon completion of the fellowship

• Uniform: free uniform

• Wi-fi: free use of high quality wi-fi

Person specification

Experience, knowledge, qualifications & skills

• Essential

  • Able to learn to use electronic medical records (EMR)

  • Excellent standard of spoken and written English

  • Graduate of a medical or nursing degree

  Desirable

  • Graduated between one and five years ago

  • Ability to learn basic Tagalog phrases

  • Car/van driver with clean licence

  • Complete fluency in spoken and written English

  • Experience of using EMR

  • Knowledge of health and social care issues affecting detainees, ex-detainees and their dependents

  • Leadership skills including the leading of Christian team devotions

  • Work experience:-

    • within a healthcare facility

    • within a place of detention

    • within an international team

Health & safety

• Essential

  • No allergy to cats or dogs*

  • Physically and mentally fit*

  • Vaccination (or willingness to be vaccinated) against COVID-19 and Hepatitis B Virus (HBV)

• Desirable

  • Vaccination (or willingness to be vaccinated) against rabies and tuberculosis

Personal attributes

• Essential

  • Active evangelical Christian with personal faith in Jesus, with supportive reference from current pastor*

  • Caring, empathetic nature

  • Confidential nature

  • Diligent nature

  • Flexible nature

  • Good personal hygiene

  • Good team player, with supportive references

  • Happy personality

  • Heart for detainees, ex-detainees and their dependents

  • Honest with clean DBS check or equivalent

  • No addictions (eg alcoholism or drug use - random testing may be deployed)

  • Non-judgmental attitude

  • Punctual

  • Respectful of authority

  • Tidy habits

• Desirable

  • Ability to delegate, lead and organise during an emergency

  • Ability and willingness to talk about the Christian life with detainees, ex-detainees and their dependents*

Availability

• Essential

  • Available from at least six months

• Desirable

  • Available for a year

Notes

Occupational Requirements

This post is based in the Philippines. That said, for the avoidance of doubt regarding the UK Equalities Act 2010, person specifications marked with an asterisk are considered to be occupational requirements.

Dates

• Selection dates: rolling recruitment

• Start dates: mutual convenient dates

Process

• Informal enquiry: email us.

• Formal application: this post is longer than three months, complete the online application form on our serving web page. We do not process applications received in other ways.

• References will be taken up before interview.

• Short-listing: we endeavour to contact all applicants, short-listed or otherwise.

The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge…
Proverbs 18:15