Senior Medical Officer I

The World Bank Group’s Health and Safety Directorate (HSD) seeks to protect and promote the health and safety of the World Bank Group (WBG) staff and their immediate families wherever they may be, taking account of their individual health, working environment, and job demands. HSD provides advice on health and safety related matters to WBG offices worldwide. General Accountability: The Senior Medical Officer is organizationally located within the Personal Health and Wellness Unit (PHW) and serves as task team leader (TTLs) for HSD’s Integrated Health and Safety HUBs. As TTL, the incumbent leads a multi-disciplinary team composed of nurse specialist(s), occupational health and safety specialist(s), and mental health and wellbeing counselor(s) representing the technical expertise of HSD’s three functional domains. Working synergistically under the operational supervision of the TTL, the team assists and advises the TTL in identifying and managing health and safety risks for all staff of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and their dependents. The Senior Medical Officer (SMO) reports to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Manager of PHW who is located in HQ. Functions and Duties: Coordination, management, and leadership regarding all Hub activities are the responsibility of the SMO. The SMO manages and is responsible for the day to day operations of the Hub in consultation as needed with the HSD Management Team and consolidates HSD objectives to ensure properly aligned delivery of support and services between Hub and HQ locations. Specifically, the SMO ensures the delivery of multi- disciplinary integrated health and safety services to Country Office locations in coordination and collaboration with HSD specialist assets working within the Hub location, and this includes coordination between the Hub and management in HQ on the delivery of country office missions. Personal Health and Wellness: • Works with nurse specialist to help identify qualified local health care providers and facilities throughout the regions covered by using various sources of information such as onsite visits and recommendations from authoritative resources such as the Medical Benefits Plan TPA and its network of providers • When needed, assist staff by coordinating care for them and their dependents with an emphasis on health maintenance examination visits, acute care, and management of chronic disease • Respond to country directors/managers queries on health-related matters, and more specifically those related to integrated health and safety in the workplace • Working with CMO and CNCO, establishes with Hub nurse specialist a clear delineation and mutual understanding of their roles and responsibilities working in a multi-disciplinary Hub • Engages nurse specialist driven global teams for support and assistance when needed. The four nurse specialist teams are as follows: o Medical Evacuation Team:  Upon request from team member(s), review medical information on emerging cases, communicate with staff members and treating physicians as needed, and help confirm that needed care cannot be delivered locally  When appropriate medical care cannot be delivered locally, all eligible cases should be transferred to Intl SOS following the established activation processes  Upon request from Medevac Team, the SMO will coordinate with ISOS to help determine: • Appropriate destination of care – center of medical excellence • Appropriate travel recommendations • The need for ongoing ISOS case management at the center of medical excellence including discharge instructions • Recommendations regarding follow up care once back at the duty station. o Travel Medicine Team:  Promulgates the importance of pre-travel consultation with HSD to all staff members throughout regions covered  Support nurse efforts to deliver travel medicine services in Hub locations as well as regions with no direct on the ground HSD assets  Provide guidance and expertise when needed regarding specific health and safety risks that must be addressed in preparing staff for relocation to specific regions o Preventive Health and Wellness Promotion Team  Actively collaborate with team to establish and sustain a culture of health and safety in the WBG and in country offices.  Coordinates with team to promote Country Office staff engagement and in a variety of health, safety, and wellness/wellbeing outreach efforts  Motivate engagement in various HSD outreach offerings such as CPR/AED training, the Employee Health and Wellness Program, and MHW Unit educational lectures and webinars  Inform and educate local WBG leadership about the importance of their role in helping to create a culture of health and safety throughout their regions o Occupational Health and Safety Nurse Program  Provides occupational health nurse programmatic risk assessment and medical surveillance when appropriate to include infectious disease outbreaks  Engages in meetings between key players in the various regions as part of the occupational health nurse team  When assigned, participates in multi-disciplinary mission travel efforts by providing occupational health risk assessments as part of the information gathering and dissemination that take place during mission  Contributes to BTORs by submitting follow-up recommendation based on assessments conducted during missions Occupational Health and Safety: • In coordination with HQ based Occupational Health Specialis...