1.The organization

Our vision: Outraged by the injustice faced by people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, we aspire to a world of solidarity and inclusion, enriched by our differences, where everyone can live in dignity.

Our mission: HI is an independent and impartial aid organization working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. We work alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, taking action and bearing witness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights. 

HI works in around sixty countries in emergency, reconstruction, chronic crisis and development contexts. Founded in 1982 and a co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, the organization has been working alongside vulnerable populations, in particular people with disabilities. Today, more than 4,500 people, including 3,500 national field staff and 300 international staff, work for HI in a wide range of contexts, implementing more than 400 projects in over 60 countries.

2.Humanity & Inclusion in Sudan

HI has initiated its programmatic response to the Sudan crisis in January 2024. HI is currently providing the physical and functional rehabilitation and stimulation therapy services in Health facilities that are in Al Jazirah State. HI is further leading disability inclusion mainstreaming at humanitarian coordination level.  HI is scaling up its intervention in Sudan while expanding its programmatic and geographical scope, to respond to the catastrophic humanitarian crisis affecting Sudanese people.

3.Main Objective of the position:

The physiotherapist contributes to the delivery of physical and functional rehabilitation care to patients targeted by the HI intervention, including assessments, follow-ups and attribution of assistive devices when needed. The aim of the treatment plan will be to facilitate the person's functional independence by providing therapeutic exercises that can be reproduced at home, and by providing an assistive product to enable the person to carry out daily activities with maximum autonomy and avoid future complications.

Mission 1: Expertise

1.1. Provides technical expertise for his/her project

1. Complies with international technical norms and standards when implementing clinical activities within their area of expertise 
2. Identifies the need to adapt project documentation in accordance with international technical norms and standards.
3. Raises awareness of rehabilitation norms and standards among members of multidisciplinary teams
4. Is responsible for the technical quality and relevance of the therapeutic activities carried out within their area of expertise.
5. Informs the Rehabilitation Technical Officer and/or Technical Project manager about the identified technical needs 
6. Adjusts their activities according to audit recommendations
7. Improves their technical capacity by building on lessons learned and good practices identified from the project
8. Respects the codes of ethics related to his or her profession and organization

.2 Contribute to professional development 

1. Carries out self-assessment of their clinical practice and identifies strengths and areas of needed improvement towards professional development
2. Identifies jointly with the Rehabilitation Technical Officer their professional development plan
3. Attends selected activities proposed for professional development and according to professional development plan designed with Rehabilitation Technical Officer and/or Technical Project manager
4. Contributes to practice analyses with colleagues towards professional practice development 

Responsibility 2-Implementation and monitoring

2.1 Ensures the implementation of therapeutic activities, in collaboration with the appropriate services and in accordance with international and national protocols, guidelines and standards.

1. Assesses the functional capacities and rehabilitation needs of beneficiaries and their caregivers 
2. Defines personalised therapeutic action plans
3. Provides rehabilitation services (therapeutic education and care, and technical aids) to beneficiaries and their caregivers 
4. Adapts treatment plans according to the progresses and needs of the beneficiaries and their caregivers. 
5. Adapts exercises and recommendations to ensure continuity in the home environment. Proposes related home adaptations if needed.
6. Ensures that care is provided with respect for the person (safe environment, respect for safety rules, dignity, confidentiality)
7. Informs and trains beneficiaries and caregivers on the rehabilitation process, and exercises and adaptations to be continued in the home
8. Demonstrates awareness of relevant referral pathways. Identifies and reports referral needs
9. Provides public health and inclusion relevant messages to households and communities, linked to rehabilitation specificities
10. Updates beneficiaries' files according to the activities carried out and observed changes in the situation. 
11. Keeps updated on beneficiary overall conditions and treatment plan. Collaborates with the other social, health and rehabilitation professionals involved in the beneficiary treatment plan.
12. Ensures a daily quantitative and qualitative report on the activities, through the tools put in place

2.2 Contributes to team and project life

1. Identifies and shares with the project team any situational changes that may have an impact on the target population and/or project 
2. Participates in the qualitative analysis of the project to adapt the activities according to the needs of the beneficiaries and the context.

Responsibility 3-Influence 

Contributes to the reputation of HI's expertise in rehabilitation (national and international conferences, working groups, etc.) 

Required for the Job :

Education:

• Bachelor Degree of Physiotherapy 

Experience: 

• 2 years of clinical experience as a physiotherapist in Sudan 
• Experience in early rehabilitation, trauma-informed care and provision of assistive devices, pediatric clinical rehabilitation is an asset
• Experience in community outreach, disability and social inclusion is an asset

Other skills:

• Strong interpersonal and good communication skills
• Strong analytical and clinical reasoning skills
• Problem-solving, creativity and flexibility
• Collaboration and team work skills
• Commitment to do-no-harm principles and well-being of beneficiaries

Language

• Fluency in spoken and written Arabic is required

Good level in spoken and written English is a strong asset

Please submit your application through the online application form below:

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Please note:

• Academic & employment certificates are not required in the application, but will be requested later, only for the applicants shortlisted
• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for a written test / interview
• HI has a salary grid for all positions, hence as most NGOs HI does not negotiate salaries, but selected applicants are offered a salary based on the set level per Position and factoring experience based on length of employment in similar positions
• Please ensure you will be able to provide references from
• your latest 2 line managers and
• your latest 2 employers HR department (verification of absence of misconduct).
• These references will be requested only from the applicants which will be shortlisted.