VFAN Job Vacancy For Eye Health Officer

We have two positions for Eye Health Officers to join our growing team.

The purpose of the Eye Health Officer is to support the Eye Health Lead to train Ghana Health Service (GHS) staff to build capacity to deliver eye care within the primary health care system. This is a hands-on role that that requires clinical experience and good organisational skills.

Reporting in to the Eye Health Team Lead, the Eye Health Officer will be responsible for implementing the clinical aspects of the Vision for a Nation Programme in Ghana, this will include:

• training GHS nurses and community health workers to deliver primary eye care (PEC) assessments in line with the GHS/WHO PEC toolkit
• designing and supporting GHS staff to deliver eye health awareness events & materials
• monitoring and supervising GHS vision screening and eye health assessments, monitoring referrals.

The Eye Health Officer will ensure that all work is compliant with the appropriate laws, standards and guidelines for primary eye care, including, (but not limited to), World Health Organisation, GHS and VFAN.

This role would be ideal for a qualified eye health professional (with at least 1-2 years’ clinical experience post qualification) that is looking for a new challenge and to contribute to a small but growing international development organisation.

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Please note:To be considered you must have the legal right to live and work indefinitely in Ghana. We are unable to accept applications from those that require sponsorship or assistance to obtain visas for employment in Ghana. Full instructions for application are included in the job description, only applications that follow the instructions will be considered.

About the Organization

Vision for a Nation (VFAN) is a multi-award-winning UK charity. We are helping people to fully contribute socially and economically to their communities by ensuring they have access to basic eye care services. Over the last 5 years with the support of our founder, philanthropist James Chen, together with funding from DFID, USAID and UBS Optimus Foundation we have transformed eye care in Rwanda and in 2018 started up programmes in Ghana while also working with global corporations to vision screen their workforces.

We need great people to help us on this journey and we’re looking for excellent, experienced eye health workers to join our team. We are looking for highly motivated individuals, self-starters that love working in development and are genuinely interested in ensuring all Ghanaians can access affordable, quality eye care services. We’re looking for people that are willing to develop with the organisation, have an entrepreneurial spirit and are adaptable to change within a growing organisation. We need our people to be self-starters and able to get on and work with people from many cultures and backgrounds.