Nurse

Job Description:

Assisting Chief Doctor during medical treatments in the Infirmary for Guest and Crew. Doctors are allowed for treatments and medications.

• On call 24 hours a day for walk-in and hospital care
  
• Programming the operation plan for themselves and for the dependent medical staff, their submission to the Doctor and their subsequent implementation.
  
• Caring for the safekeeping of the medical department's materials and maintaining adequate stocks.
  
• Verifying pre sign on medical forms for all embarking crewmembers, notifying missing or expired exams to the Ship's Doctor for immediate actions to be taken.
  
• Preparing and processing all statistical data related to food-handler crewmembers on a monthly basis;
  
• Compiling and filling the registers and the forms and mailing all required documents to the relevant offices;
• Checking maintenance of emergency equipments and reporting required servicing of medical equipments to the Chief Engineer;
• Checking oxygen supply and efficient working of respiratory equipment;
  
• Supervising to the cleaning (twice a day), ventilation, lighting (including ultraviolet lighting for the night) and heating of the hospital premises;
  
• Arranging medical emergencies referrals to the specialist ashore;
  
• Preparing medical customs reports before port arrival;
  
• Preparing declaration of narcotic drugs inventory for Customs purposes;
  
• Safety disposal of expired drugs and biohazards chemicals in coordination with the Environmental Officer.

Salary and benefits

Spanish applicants only

Contract terms: 4 months on / 2 months off

Cabin: contractually shared, but  single cabin in hospital is granted on some ships of the fleet;

Meals: free in the crew messroom; only drinks and bottled water are on charge.

Required documents:

Passport;

Seaman's book

2-year medical checkup

STCW courses (basic fire fighting, personal survival techniques, personal safety and social responsibility, first aid), PSCRB, Crowd management, Crisis management and human behaviour;

ACLS course and BLS course.