Disaster Response Nurse Volunteer

Position Title: Disaster Response Nurse Volunteer                                  

Location:                                  Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina                             

Assignment Type:                    Volunteer; joining the Global Roster pre-qualifies you to be able to deploy with us when we support communities and survivors facing disasters.

Application Requirements:      Resume and completed application questions

About Americares: 

Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization that saves lives and improves health for people affected by poverty or disaster. Each year, Americares reaches 85 countries on average, including the United States, with life-changing health programs, medicine, medical supplies, and emergency aid. Americares is one of the world’s leading nonprofit providers of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more information, visit americares.org.

Americares Values:

We create global community, treating people as they want to be treated.
 
We respond effectively and responsibly, putting plans into practice.
 
We embed ethics and equity in our work and workplace.
 
We are better together; partnership is at our core.
 
We ask and listen, to create sustainable solutions for a healthier tomorrow.
 
We commit to quality, growing and improving to ensure individuals and communities thrive.

About the Americares Global Roster:

Americares maintains a Global Roster, which is comprised of experienced professions all over the world who can be available for short-term emergency deployments. Roster members are generally deployed after an initial rapid assessment is conducted by Americares core staff, but on occasion we may ask Roster members to deploy immediately. Acceptance to the Roster does not guarantee deployment but does qualify members to respond with us for a future response if their qualifications would supplement the objectives of the intervention.

Selected candidates will be required to complete a series of short online trainings on general safety and security and other topics or will be required to demonstrate they have completed same or similar trainings. Periodic trainings will be offered to all candidates on relevant topics. After training and onboarding is complete, Roster members are considered eligible to deploy.

Deployments can last anywhere from 2 weeks to 6 months depending on the needs of the response. Roster members are not compensated for time spent on trainings or other requirements. Competitive deployment compensation will be offered based on the candidate’s skills and experience if a member is requested to deploy.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Registered Nurses (RN), Nurse Practitioners (NP) and Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) provide quality emergency care for the affected population. Practitioners should be experienced in areas such as initial trauma care on a mass scale, basic wound, fracture, and first aid management, emergency pediatric and obstetric care and/or mental health. Any care provided by the nurse during deployment with Americares will be within the Scope of Practice of her/his professional, clinical duties and practice at her/his regular place of work.

All Global Roster Members will actively participate in ongoing training (including but not limited to online exercises and on-site/in-person trainings), actively model and contribute to Americares values, work culture and mission, engage in and contribute to team spaces with openness, global competencies, and a growth mindset, and complete other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

These competencies are required for the role:

• BSN or MSN with active registered nurse or nurse practitioner license, or completed LPN certificate and active license.
• Experience working in primary health care, maternal and child health, communicable disease, HIV/AIDs, or reproductive health
• At least 3 years of clinical experience
• Ability to adapt to the needs of local patients and effectively utilize the limited resources available
• Employ independent decision making while also working well with a cohesive medical unit
• Works well under pressure and in stressful situations
• Extremely organized, flexible, and excellent communication skills
• Exceptional bedside manner in stressful situations

Ability to deploy within 24-72 hours of notice and US work authorization is required for this role.

These competencies would be great to have, but are not required:

•  Experience working in an emergency response context.
•  Fluency in languages that are spoken in at least one of our core locations (India, Philippines, Tanzania, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Colombia, etc.), in addition to English.

Additionally, our core competencies as an organization are:

•  Ownership and results
•  Communication
•  Problem solving
•  Equity and inclusion
•  Teamwork and conflict resolution
•  Leadership
•  Prioritization
•  Management
•  Strategy and planning
•  Decision making

What you can expect, if you move forward in the recruitment process:

1.     Interview with People and Talent (45 minutes)

2.     Technical video interview (1 hour)

3.     Reference check and background check

4.     Onboarding to the Global Roster, including completion of required training