Physiotherapist

General Information

Humanity & Inclusion is an independent and impartial international aid organization working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict, and disaster. Working alongside persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, our actions and testimony are focused on responding to their essential needs, improving their living conditions, and promoting respect for their dignity and their fundamental rights. Humanity & Inclusion is a not-for-profit organization with no religious or political affiliation. It operates as a federation made up of a network of associations that provide it with human and financial resources, manage its projects, and implement its actions and social mission.

Following a successful consortium lifesaving response (ECHO2.0), the HI has formed a new Consortium with HelpAge International, Rehabilitation and Development Organization, and FEAPD to work in Tigray and Amhara under DG ECHOs HIP2024.

Under the supervision of the project Rehabilitation Team Leader (Rehab expert), the Physical Rehabilitation (Physiotherapist) Officer is responsible for leading, initiating, ensuring, coordinating, and following up on all activities related to physical and functional rehabilitation services (capacity building, medical referral, mapping of service provider outside Physical rehabilitation scope and distribution of mobility aids/devices) to conflict, manmade and natural disaster affected people.

The position holder (Physiotherapist) is expected to coordinate the rehabilitation of the project in close collaboration among project partners, consortium members, internal referral project beneficiaries as well as external referral for service outside the project scope and consortium partners.

Given the emergency nature of the programme and areas of intervention, the position holder will be expected to work outside the normal work hours. S/he will be based in the Tigray region in one of the following woredas (Axum, Adwa, Shiraro, Shire, and Tembyen Abi-adi) with frequent (90%) travel to the field.

Missions/responsibilities

Project Implementation:

• Train Health Outreach Workers on basic identification of disabilities, basic rehabilitation practices, and referral.
• Together with health professionals, ensure to provide access to rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities through medical referral, and provision of mobility aids/devices.
• Conduct an assessment of beneficiaries with impairments to impairments and disability types and make recommendations.
• Based on the assessment, identify the Physical needs of the persons with disabilities and specify the type of mobility aids with full specification.
• Fill in the purchase request with detailed information considering the local train condition and the specific needs of persons with disabilities. Train Key health staff on fitting mobility devices including wheelchairs, crutches, and other devices to pre-primary and primary school children.
• Ensure good communication with Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) local actors working with persons with Disabilities, Organization of persons with Disabilities (OPDs) so that these actors support targeted beneficiaries with disabilities in IDP and the host community.
• Conduct assessment for visual, hearing, and speech impairments to be referred to local service providers (private and government-owned).
• Work closely with health facilities/hospitals HI signed MoU and refer persons with disabilities who need special and service outside HIs mandate.

Quality M&E and Reporting

• Ensure the high quality of activities implemented as indicated in the project proposal document.
• Participate in regular monitoring, midterm, and final evaluation of the project in consultation with the project manager and project partners and documentation and dissemination of lessons learned and good practices to relevant bodies.
• Work in close collaboration with the project manager and other project teams to monitor the project outcomes and results as per indicated performance indicators and contribute to the documentation of good practices
• Implement the formalized tools and methods developed within the project framework.

Coordination and Representation

Ensure a good level of communication and leasing with partners, consortium members, OPDs as well as stakeholders operational in the project area, zonal and regional level working on Persons with Disabilities and rehabilitation.

Up on delegation by the project manager, representing HI, and attending cluster meetings with NGOs in Tigray regional state.

In collaboration with the project manager, coordinates meetings to share lessons learned, experience, and good practices of the project with partners, consortium members, government sector bureaus, and relevant NGOs and advocate for the rights and wellbeing of persons with disabilities.

Qualification: BSc in physiotherapy from a recognized University with at least 4 years of Physical rehabilitation practice.

Physical and functional rehabilitation experience in the community setting.

Willingness and ability to work in remote locations.

Experience in capacity building of partners in the identification of persons with disabilities and referring them to service providers.

Support service provider to the community-based organization as per signed MoU with the service providers.

Resilient to stress

Knowledge and skill of the local language (Tigrigna) is MUST.