Consultant to Provide Clinical Training and Supportive Supervision Consultancy on Newborn Care

Save the Children’s vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Save the Children started our work in Vietnam in 1990, and implements programs in the key thematic areas: Education, Health and Nutrition, Child Protection, Child Rights and Governance, Child Poverty, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Emergency Response. At present, Vietnam Country Office has programs in 20 out of 63 provinces in Vietnam.

Save the Children in Vietnam continues to develop innovative programming that reflects the overall strategic goal of measurably improving the survival, health, protection and development of Vietnam’s poorest children by strengthening the capacity of women and children, caring adults, communities and partner organizations.

Save the Children is committed to ensuring that all our personnel and programmes are absolutely safe for children.

Child Safeguarding positioning statement:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.

We are looking for a Vietnamese national for:

Consultant’s responsibilities:

The consultant will:

Provide adequate clinical training environment (training aids, patients, training place…) for selected trainees in both theoretical training (5 days) and clinical practicum (20 days). The training curriculum and materials will be discussed and agreed with SCI.
Assign relevant specialists who work under direct supervision of SCI’s Project Manager depending on the activities. The designated experts are expected to accomplish the following tasks:
- Provide technical and methodological guidance and/or trainings for pediatricians and nurses and related health workers, as requested.
- Provide regular supportive supervision to the project locations in accordance with the schedule and guidelines of SCI. Detail tasks are as follows:
1. Coach and transfer professional knowledge and skills for pediatricians, nurses and midwives at visiting health facilities during each supportive supervision trip;
2. Give feedback to individuals, group of health professionals, and health leaders at visiting health facilities;
3. Help health staff to work together to identify gaps/problems and solutions to improve quality of newborn health care services.
- Review and provide advices/suggestions on necessary newborn care equipment/infrastructure for provincial, district and commune levels at project sites.
- Attend workshops/trainings as trainers/ facilitators when invited.

Key Deliverables

A 5-day theoretical training and a 20-day clinical practicum curriculum for pediatricians and newborn care nurses at provicial and district levels.
Technical training reports.
Supportive Supervision reports.

Main competencies required

Being a National Hospital
Have enough competent pediatricians and nurses who have strong capacity in knowledge, experience and skills to provide clinical training courses to provincial newborn care specialists/nurses.
The experts designated by the hospital to participate in the project activities need to have the following criteria:
- Associate Professor accompanied by a PhD degree and more than 10 years working experience on clinical training on newborn care.
- 5 year working experience in newborn care is required at least for the trainers who are medical doctors or senior nurses (with bachelor’s degree).

Application package:

Interested consultant(s) should send their profile to Save the Children International in Vietnam via Vietnam.HR@savethechildren.org. The profile should include the following CVs and Application form.

The closing date for application is 5pm on 20th June, 2020. Applications will be treated in confidence. Due to the volume of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted and CVs cannot be returned.

Save the Children is an equal opportunities employer. Our selection processes reflect our commitment to the protection of children from abuse, and our people are as diverse as the challenge we face. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of age, disability, HIV/AIDS status, race, national origin, religion, or sexual orientation.