# Migration Health and AVRR Physician

**Company**: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
**Location**: Algiers
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

IOM is seeking a Migration Health and AVRR Physician to conduct migration health assessments and provide medical support for AVRR cases in Algiers, Algeria.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

- Conducting migration health assessments, including medical history, physical examination, and review of available clinical records

- Arranging or reviewing required investigations, including laboratory testing, imaging, and other examinations

- Identifying health conditions requiring treatment, referral, stabilization, or follow-up, and coordinating care with relevant health facilities and treating physicians

- Supporting vaccination, tuberculosis management, pre-departure medical procedures, and other health interventions

- Ensuring correct identification of migrants and complete, accurate, and timely medical documentation, certification, and data entry in relevant IOM systems

- Reviewing AVRR cases with known or suspected medical conditions and assessing decision-making capacity, fitness to travel, and medical feasibility of return

- Recommending additional assessment or stabilization when necessary

- Determining required medical travel conditions, such as medical or non-medical escort, wheelchair, additional seats, stretcher, oxygen, medications, medical supplies, or family support

- Coordinating with AVRR, Operations, Migration Health, and relevant counterparts in the country of return to support safe travel and continuity of care after arrival

- Briefing medical escorts on the case and travel management plan, coordinating required escort supplies, and reviewing escort reports and travel-related incidents

- Contributing to quality assurance through case review, record checks, data analysis, incident follow-up, and implementation of applicable SOPs

- Maintaining case records and relevant statistics, and preparing routine or ad hoc reports

**Requirements:**

- University degree in Medicine from an accredited academic institution

- Valid licence to practise medicine in the duty-station country

- At least two years of relevant professional clinical experience, preferably in emergency medicine, internal medicine, or a multidisciplinary hospital setting

- Experience conducting medical assessments, preparing medical reports, and coordinating referrals or patient care

- Good knowledge of clinical medicine, patient safety, and infection prevention and control

- Strong coordination and communication skills, including liaison with health facilities, operations teams, and cross-border counterparts

- Fluency in English and French (oral and written)

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salary

- Comprehensive benefits package

**Contract Details:**

- Contract type: Special Short term ungraded (Up to 9 months)

- Initial contract duration: 6 months with possibility of extension

## Skills

### Required
- clinical medicine
- patient safety
- infection prevention and control
- coordination
- communication
- medical assessment
- referral
- patient care
- French

### Nice to have
- emergency medicine
- internal medicine
- multidisciplinary hospital setting
- migration health
- humanitarian health
- resettlement health
- AVRR programming
- fitness-to-travel assessment
- medical movement support
- continuity-of-care planning
- Arabic

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