# Health Assistant

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Ipiales
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $1,838,450
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a Health Assistant to support the implementation of the health programme in Ipiales, Samaniego, and Cumbitara.

**Job Summary:** The Health Assistant will provide administrative and clinical support to the health programme, including managing medical schedules, organising clinical spaces, and implementing the strategy for targeting prioritised populations.

**Responsibilities:**

- Manage and maintain up-to-date medical schedules for doctors, nurses, and other health professionals

- Organise clinical spaces and ensure adequate conditions for patient care

- Implement the strategy for targeting prioritised populations and actively recruit clients for all health services

- Assign medical appointments, track absences, and reorganise schedules as needed

- Perform internal and external referrals, ensuring correct documentation and continuity of treatment

- Conduct health education sessions, ensuring community participation and clear content

- Manage the Vulnerability Fund, verifying criteria and recording support provided

- Prepare forecasts for medications and medical supplies

- Support audits of medical accounts and provide required documentation

- Coordinate logistics for clinical and community activities

- Establish effective communication with finance and operations teams

- Provide humanitarian care to programme clients, ensuring orientation, dignified treatment, and follow-up on needs

- Support technical processes for the health programme, including data management and record-keeping

- Conduct visits to areas with high concentrations of migrant or vulnerable populations, identifying individuals with health needs and providing information on available services

- Coordinate transportation and accompaniment of clients to healthcare centres

- Support actions related to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including identification, testing, and referral to clinical personnel

**Requirements:**

- Technical or technological training in Nursing Assistance with a community and health focus

- At least 12 months of experience in community health contexts, including 6 months in health promotion, disease prevention, or community mobilisation projects

- Basic knowledge of office tools and database management

- Experience in the humanitarian sector or working with migrant and displaced populations is valued

**Benefits:**

- Employment contract

- Salary: $1,838,450 with social benefits

**Professional Standards:** The IRC operates under the principles of integrity, service, equality, and accountability.

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## Skills

### Required
- Nursing Assistance
- Community Health
- Database Management
- Spanish

### Nice to have
- Humanitarian Sector
- Migrant and Displaced Populations

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