Turkey: Physical Rehabilitation Consultant

Organization: International Medical Corps
Country: Turkey
Closing date: 31 Dec 2016

International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

2.0. Physical Rehabilitation Project Background:**

Since July 2013 IMC operates in Turkey and Syria a rehabilitation program supporting people with disabilities (PWD) and people with injuries (PWI) affected by the Syrian crisis. IMC provides direct support to PWD and PWI through the mobiles teams consisting of physiotherapists and rehabilitation workers and Supported Rehabilitation Centers those provide physiotherapy and rehabilitation services at the healthcare facilities, home-based level and care houses.

3.0. Rationale:

Due to lack of sufficient qualified Arabic Speaker Physiotherapist and due to the urgency to respond to the need of PWD and injured at the beginning of Syrian crisis, staff with no appropriate background has been employed as Rehabilitation Workers. İn this position they have been trained on basic knowledge about provision of physiotherapy. They are part of the mobile unit that provides home care and they work under the supervision of the PT, team leader of each mobile unit. The provision of solid training, which is itself a non-stop process, while providing physiotherapy care to the beneficiaries has been itself a challenge. In addition new recruitment because of program extension or normal turn over add an additional difficulty as the new group need several weeks of training to reach the knowledge of the senior group.

İn May 2016 a Training Need Analysis has been performed testing the level of knowledge of the physiotherpists and the senior Rehabilitatiın Workers, as base for definition of a round of trainings. The

As the program has expanded, in July several Physitherapists and Rehabilitation Worked heve been employed and enroled in the training plan.

As per donor requirement, a second training analisys should be perfprmed within December and thus a new asessment tool shoud be designed in order to include also the group of new staff and to correct and adapt the metodology according to the lessons learnt after the implementation of the firs phase.

İt has been identified also a lack of knowledge in occupational therapy and a specific training should be delivered to enhance the application of this approach to the rehabilitation care.

4.0. Overall objectives:

The overall objectives of the consultancy is revising and adapt the training analysis tool in order to capture the weakness in knowledge of such not uniform group and to create a more solid base for the training plan for 2017 program and to introduce the occupational therapy approach through delivery of a specific training.

The key objectives will be:

· The consultant will analyse the first assessment and identify the need of modifications. He/she will design the new tool, perform the test to the different groups (including the staff working with İMC partners), analyse the results and point out the major sectors were the staff still show need of training.

· Capacity development of physiotherapists and rehabilitation workers on basic occupational therapy skills.

5.0. Expected outcome:

The consultant is expected to deliver following targets:

1. Assessment of impact of capacity development measures conducted for physiotherapists and rehabilitation workers as per the capacity development plan developed based upon the training need assessment conducted in April and May 2016.

2. Training of 24 physiotherapists and 29 rehab workers on basic Occupational Therapy skills.

6.0.Proposed time frame:**

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Task to be done

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Analyze the result of the previous TNA

Design a second impact assessment tool for each topic/subject the participants has received training so far.

Submit the test to different groups, travelling to each location for measuring impact of the training conducted.

Analyze the results of the tests

Adapting existing capacity development plan as per finding and discussion with PTs and RWs

Prepare the OT training materials