Mercy Ships

About Mercy Ships:

Mercy Ships is a global nonprofit organization that operates a fleet of hospital ships to provide free, life-saving medical care and healthcare services to underserved populations in developing countries. Through their state-of-the-art hospital ships, Mercy Ships delivers surgeries, dental care, eye treatments, and other vital services to communities that lack access to basic healthcare. The organization also focuses on training local healthcare workers to build sustainable medical infrastructure, empowering these nations to continue improving their healthcare systems long after the ships leave. Mercy Ships combines compassion, expertise, and innovation to create lasting impact and hope for millions of people in need.

About this Role:

For those with burn contractures, benign tumors, and restrictive scarring, a surgery with Mercy Ships’ reconstructive plastic team is an answer to prayers. This team brings hope and healing by providing relief from pain and disfigurement through their professional and specialized surgical interventions.

Our Reconstructive Plastic Surgeons provide reconstructive plastic surgical intervention to treat congenital, developmental, or degenerative conditions as well as reconstruction of damage due to injury or infection. The reconstructive plastic surgical procedures performed include, but not limited to, (NOMA) facial reconstruction, burn contracture release, repair and grafting of tendon injuries upper and lower limbs, soft tissue reconstruction and skin grafting.

You will also manage post-operative care of surgical complications and prioritize patient selection.

What You Will Contribute:

• Assessment of potential surgical candidates

• Communicate planned procedures, expected outcomes and potential complications clearly with patients and caregivers, using diagrams & translators when necessary

• Preoperative assessment of surgical candidates

• Work with anesthetic providers and hospital physicians

• Operate on selected candidates as scheduled

• Ongoing consultation for surgical patients

• Potential to train and mentor other Surgeons

For This Role, You Will Need:

• Active licensure/ registration within home nation

• Minimum 2 years’ surgical practice following completion of specialty training program

• Active in practice (within the previous six months preferred)

• Fluent in English

• Flexibility and sensitivity to language and cultural diversity