RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS DESCRIPTION:
- Ensure that the rehabilitation process is guided by comprehensive assessments of beneficiaries’ physical needs and capacities
- Be able to screen for the set of core specific needs (physical rehabilitation and Psychosocial needs) to individuals and families alongside other members of the team
- After initial screening, Identify the nature and severity of rehabilitation needs through the technical assessment
- Fill the different assessments and referral forms, when required, according to the assessment’s criteria
- According to the outcomes of the assessment of the beneficiaries’ needs, elaborate an appropriate action plan and, when required.
Offer secure and appropriate physical rehabilitation services, combined with psychosocial support, within the scope of his competence.
- Provide rehabilitation services based on the informed consent of the beneficiary and adapted to her/his needs, taking into account the limitations of the emergency responses and psychosocial needs of the beneficiaries.
- Actively involve the beneficiaries at all stages of the assessment and response, in order to ensure the relevance and sustainability of the intervention.
- Detect any evolution of the cases and will modify the action plan accordingly or refer to relevant colleague, superior or stakeholders.
- Provide assistive device upon identified needs to the beneficiary to improve his mobility.
- Use secure and respectful methods when working with beneficiary.
- Ensure a proper follow up of the cases.
- Ensure the responsibility of the service provided to the beneficiary.
- Identify his/her own limits and ask for support before any acts that could cause harm to beneficiary.
Refer beneficiary to other services:
- Provide appropriate referrals for returnees to relevant health services in their destination provinces.
- Identify needs for referrals to other relevant stakeholders and monitor referrals conducted in coordination with the Project Manager.
- Recognize emergency situation or situations that need immediate medical care or protection measure and react in consequence making efforts to ensure that beneficiary get the appropriate services.
Record, Report, develop the tools and planning:
- Maintain complete individual files for each person, including detailed descriptions of services provided and evolution of the case
- Ensure that complete beneficiary pack is properly filled and signed
- Write case studies on beneficiaries and activities of the project as advising for potential capitalisation and data analysis activities.
- Respect all guidelines and documentation within the project; keep data records for each individual and group sessions
- Document any protection concerns and report them to your line manager
- Ensure a daily quantitative and qualitative reporting through the tools (assessment form, follow up form, discharge and monitoring form, donation certificate) and system in place
- Any other reports to be made upon line manager request
- Participate to the improvement of the activities protocol, tools and guidelines to ensure a qualitative comprehensive intervention
- Actively participate to all the project meeting, technical follow-up, internal and external trainings related to your position according to your line manager instructions
- Contribute to the organization of the weekly plan within the multidisciplinary team, with the support of the team leader
To build other team members’ and partners’ member’s capacities:
- Work in a constructive way with the MHPSS workers.
- Provide technical advices and/or training for hospital or other humanitarian partners' staffs as per request of your line manager.
- Provide training or sensitization sessions.
Materials Management:
- Identify material, equipment, assistive device needed, timely formulate requests, and ensure appropriate use/distribution
Demonstrate willingness to improve professional competences and abilities to increase care quality:
- Demonstrate motivation at work.
- Demonstrate willingness to improve his/her own knowledge and skills by participating actively in any training sessions, capacity building activities.
- Participate in the different activities that are common to all team members (identification of needs of beneficiaries, internal and/or external referrals).
- Respect each team member’s positions, work, and specificity.
- Adapt to special situations or demands from supervisor (reporting, etc.).
Respect hygiene and security rules:
- The PT respects and applies basic hygiene rules;
- He/she maintains equipment clean and secured.
- He/she observes at all times strict commitment to Handicap International Security & Safety regulations as per procedures in place at mission level
- He/she supports information internal dissemination to relevant focal persons at mission level aiming at reinforcing security and safety of Handicap International staff and assets
Demonstrate an ethics and professional practice:
- Show professional ethics, respect and promote Handicap International mandate
- Among others, he/she respects beneficiary’s privacy and confidentiality (he/she only share medical information with medical staff/persons directly involved in beneficiary’s care)
- Respect the Handicap International protection of children policy and protection of beneficiaries from sexual exploitation and abuse policy and report to your line manager any non-respect of HI’s policies amongst the teams or partners.
- Report any incident or act that causes any harm to beneficiary or to others.
- Always interact with children with the presence of their parents or caregivers
- Always respect a refusal of service.
- Work with the best of knowledge and abilities to offer a good quality psychosocial support
- Show abilities and competences to execute an efficient rehabilitation intervention.
Note that this job description must remain flexible, to respond to additional tasks or changes as identified by the line manager.
CONFIDENTIALITY CLAUSE:
The Physiotherapist is expected to maintain confidentiality of all beneficiary and internal information at all times. Afghanistan mission takes place in a sensitive environment regarding security of Handicap International staff and assets. Handicap International employee commits to observe utmost respect of personal and professional ethics, to adhere to principles of neutrality and impartiality, and to ensure necessary levels of discretion within and outside working space. Not respecting this clause will lead to disciplinary action and have immediate dismissal as a result.
Any breach of the above-mentioned responsibilities, of the Conditions of Engagement may be sanctioned by a written warning or immediate dismissal if appropriate.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Degree in Physiotherapy (3 years Diploma or Bachelor in Physiotherapy)
- Minimum 3 years of clinical experience working as a Physiotherapist
- Knowledge of referrals mechanisms
- Knowledge of user centered approach and center-based rehabilitation
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team and collaborate
- Demonstrated ability to develop and apply clinical tools
- Experience in development and provision of training and coaching
- Knowledge of community-based rehabilitation approach
- Ability to work with partners (local and international actors)
- Ability to develop information materials
- Previous experience with HI is an asset
- Familiar with MS Office (Word, Excel) and internet
- Fluency in Pashto
- Eexcellent written & spoken in Dari and Pashto
- Fluent in written and spoken English is an asset
- Ability to work with diverse beneficiaries
- Strong interpersonal, communication skills and active listening skills
- Able to work both independently and in a multicultural team environment
- Willing to learn and develop professionally
- Open and interested in disability issues
- Capable of goodwill and humanity behaviours
- Good organization skills
- Abilities to properly communicate with patients, families/caretakers, medical staff, actors, community elders, etc.
- Ability to represents Handicap International, its values, its mandate
Adheres to the project’s vision: a world in which all forms of disabilities can be prevented, cared for or integrated, and in which the rights of people with disabilities are respected and applied
