Job Offer:  Bodgaun Medical Center is seeking to hire a highly-skilled Health Assistant, with good proven experience and practice, for a probationary period of three months.

Context presentation: Bodgaun Medical Center is a non-profit medical project run by Jay Nepal NGO and the local community, equipped with modern infrastructure and equipment that operates with the slogan: “who saves a life saves the world entire”.

Jay Nepal Action Volunteers is a fast-growing non-profit organization that seeks to establish worldwide role models for social change, which can be applied wherever people have been marginalized, ignored, or suppressed. We connect, activate, and empower socially disadvantaged individuals and communities from rural villages and remote areas; helping them reach a standard of living and quality of life befitting the dignity all human beings deserve. We believe that each human being, no matter what their social and cultural conditions, can prosper and develop if offered solid opportunities in the realms of education, health, technologies, and business. Jay Nepal exists to challenge the social suppression and exclusion.

• SLC + three (3) years course from Nepali University or CTEVT for General/community medicine
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in community health
• Must have sufficient skills on computers and have certificates from the Nepal Health Professional Council
• Working Arrangement
• The work station is Bodgaun Medical Centre, Sindupalchowk (1.5 Hours from Kathamndu) 
• You need to stay at least 25 days per month in the working station
• The running hours of the Medical Centre are from 9:00 to 17:00 with an hour of Lunch break in mid-day. But, the center accepts emergency cases at any hour. You will have to be available to perform in those cases at any time.

Specific Roles

• On duty for the emergency department (Day & Night)
• In-patient monitoring, assessment, prescription of medicines and treatment orders, and interpretation of laboratory results/investigations
• Minor surgical procedures (i.e. sutures, I&D, debridement of wounds, Cast and Slab application for fractures and dislocations)
• Provide counseling services i.e. addictions/psychiatric, family planning, antenatal, postnatal, etc.
• Assisting and coordinating with visiting interdisciplinary health professionals
• Engaging in health promotion and teaching activities in community and school

Specific Characteristics:

• Acquiring preventive, primitive, and curative health care
• Good knowledge of USG and X-RAY is preferred
• Interpersonal communication skills and good and warm relationships with patients, locals, and the Jay Nepal team are mandatory

Location: Sindhupalchwok (Accommodation provided)
Position period: Initial period of 3 Months (with the possibility of extension)