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Expedition Medical Officers Wanted
| Job number: | 19 |
|---|---|
| Organisation: | Coral Cay Conservation |
| Location: | Fiji |
| Categories: | Leisure, Water, Outdoors, Charity |
| Start date: | Jun 30, 2006 |
| End date: | Ongoing |
| Paid: | No |
| Family: | No |
Medical Officer
Minimum 3 month post overseeing the general health and safety of the expedition and provides medical treatment to the staff and volunteers.
Minimum requirements
- Qualified doctor, nurse or paramedic with 6 months A&E experience
- Scuba diving certification to Advanced Open Water
Duties and responsibilities
- To provide health care and emergency medical treatments to all company personnel, expedition volunteers and their counterparts
- Maintenance and stock control of all medical supplies and equipment on site
- Requesting re-ordering equipment and supplies
- Enforcing policies of expedition health and safety on site
- Briefing on preventative hygiene on site
- Maintenance of medical records
- Submitting regular reports to HO and counterparts
Personal Benefits
- Opportunity to attend expedition medical training prior to the expedition
- Tropical medicine experience
- Opportunity to gain in-depth scientific knowledge of marine or terrestrial sites
- Opportunities to carry out surveys
- Experience teaching in first aid
- Team building skills with both other staff members and volunteers
- Working with project partners
- Being a representative for CCC
- Continuing the collection of scientific data
- Promoting conservational awareness
- Gaining an insight into CCC's longstanding objectives
- Experience working overseas
Expedition Medical Training
For all medics planning on overseas work we can recommend the Expemed Course run by Voyage Concepts. ExpeMed is the UK's longest established Expedition Medicine training course with lectures and teaching from highly skilled doctors who have vast experience of the expedition field. ExpeMed is the course of choice for many doctors who wish to become Expedition Medics. For more information contact Voyage Concepts Ltd on Tel: 020 8399 9090 or email expemed@voyageconcepts.co.uk
Current Expedition site
Application Process
To apply, please download a staff application form.
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