Prehospital Emergency Care Pool

GRC is expanding the surge capacity of its Prehospital Emergency Care (PHEC) Pool and welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are opening the pool for qualified and experienced Emergency Medicine practitioners who have the skills and expertise to be deployed as delegates in an emergency response anywhere in the world for a minimum of six weeks and up to three months.

GRC’s Emergency Medicine practitioners are typically deployed as part of a Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU) which provides basic and advanced healthcare to affected communities together with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and its sister National Societies overseas. An ICRC RDU encompasses the deployment of trained personnel plus modules of equipment at short notice. Given the special mandate of the ICRC, deployments oftentimes take place in areas of conflict.

As an Emergency Medicine practitioner, you will provide high-quality and ethically sound professional and technical services to support the work of the ICRC or other Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement partners and must therefore be able to work independently. You will organise and manage the Prehospital Emergency Care services in an ambulance or clinic in coordination with other personnel, and supervise, mentor, and provide training to local staff as required. In partnership with relevant stakeholders, Emergency Medicine practitioners may also ensure the smooth operation of a Prehospital Emergency Care Unit within the Red Cross/ Red Crescent Emergency Hospital and Clinic.

Does the following profile sound like you? If yes, we encourage you to apply and look forward to guiding you through the admission process.

• You are available for a surge deployment for a duration of six weeks up to three months in the coming two years.
• You are a practising Emergency Medicine practitioner with a minimum of three years of work experience in Emergency Medical Services.
• You have a valid license to practise Emergency Medicine.
• You are willing to provide comprehensive prehospital emergency care in low-resource, emergency settings and have experience in handling high volumes of patients.
• You have empathy but can also maintain a professional distance.
• You have experience in training and/or mentoring other health personnel.
• You can work autonomously but collaborate well within a multidisciplinary team.
• You enjoy working with people from other countries and cultures and can communicate with them in an effective, respectful, and courteous manner.
• Your English level is C1 or higher. Further languages are an asset.
• Your personal fitness allows you to work under heightened health or climate-related risk.
• You follow strict security protocol and professionally handle security restrictions.
• You preferably have previous work experience overseas in a low-resource setting. (International experience can be gained through assignments, internships, and volunteer work overseas)
• You have preferably worked within the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement before.

There are three profiles within the Prehospital Emergency Care Pool which you can apply for. Please apply to the PHEC Pool that best reflects your skills and experience. A detailed catalogue of requirements can be accessed here.

• Emergency Medical Technician
• Paramedic (including Advanced Emergency Medical Technician)
• Emergency Physician/ Critical Care Paramedic

Applications from German Red Cross volunteers and staff members who meet the criteria are also welcome.

During the application process, you will be asked to answer the following question using 1,500 characters (approx. 230 words): Please provide an example from your recent work experience where you needed to respond to a critical incident with a patient who had a different cultural background than you. What was the context? How did you manage the incident and what was the outcome?

If you would prefer to prepare your answer in advance (max. 1,500 characters), you can also copy and paste it into the GRCReady application field.

Please note that this is an application process to join our humanitarian surge roster, not for a specific PHEC position at GRC. GRC cannot guarantee a deployment since this depends on humanitarian needs and humanitarian access. For more information on our roster, GRCReady, please click here.