Nurse Supervisor at the Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA)

The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) is an independent humanitarian medical NGO that was created in 2009 by professionals of humanitarian medicine. ALIMA’s mission is to provide medical care in emergency situations or medical catastrophes.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Nurse Supervisor

Location: Kaita, Katsina
Report to (Direct): Nurse activities Manager
Report to (Functional ): Referring doctor
Area: Medical department

Mission and Main Activities

• The supervisor is responsible for the medical and nutritional follow-up of severely malnourished children at ATFC.
• He is responsible for the proper functioning of the ATFC, the organization of work, the supervision of the team, the continuous training of the staff and the quality of care.
• In collaboration with the Major, the supervisor consolidates the means implemented in the Health Centers for the proper functioning of activities concerning malnutrition.
• It ensures the quality of care and medico-nutritional follow-up of severely malnourished children.
• It ensures the availability of inputs to ensure the care of children
• It ensures reference criteria, participates in and assists in the organization of awareness-raising activities with a view to improving access to care.

Accountabilities

• Ensures compliance with the criteria for entry into ATFC, transfer to ITFC and exit criteria from LATFC.
• Controls and verifies the quality and quantities of rations given to beneficiaries. It is the guarantor of the proper implementation of the Protocol.
• Transmits to the Incharge positive developments and difficulties, proposes and elaborates recommendations in the application of the national protocol
• Disseminates and trains to any evolution of the national protocol in agreement with the NAM of the Project and / or the Referring Doctor
• Controls nutritional monitoring (quality and rhythm of anthropometric measurements).
• In collaboration with the Incharge, decides on the transfer of a child to the ITFC
• Ensures the reference and counter-reference of children
• Performs all emergency medical procedures during the care of children
• Forms or reinforces information regarding compliance with aseptic rules during nursing care.
• Promotes the availability of the necessary means and their use
• Participates with staff in consultations and care of children (if required)
• With logistics, evaluates the quality of hygiene, the availability of water and the impact of hygiene training.
• Organizes with the Incharge the integration of the care of malnourished children, for this, it helps if necessary to better define the responsibilities of the agents of the center and helps in the implementation of the activity.
• Evaluates the means and skills in human resources on the ATFC for which it is responsible.
•  Evaluates the level achieved by ATFC in the integration of care according to the evaluation grid taking into account the general activity of ATFC.
• With the Incharge, ensures the quality of all staff in the management of malnutrition by rotating ATFC's health care staff to this activity.
• Defines the content of the trainings, develops their schedule with the Major of the Health Center and the NAM of the project.
• Ensures the implementation of validated training with ATFC staff.
•  With the Incharge, ensures the proper completion of the data collection (register, nutritional therapeutic sheet) by the person responsible and their corrections through training or the organization of work meetings.
• Promotes the availability of means of and their transmission
• Collects daily and weekly statistical data.
• Evaluates monthly the actions necessary for the management of malnutrition on ATFC and the actions carried out for the consolidation of integration
• Transmits the difficulties of achieving the objectives and proposes solutions to the NAM of the project or / and Referring Doctor.
• Completed and participates in the analysis of ALIMA information collection documents.
• Ensure the correct completion of the medical order sheet validated by the NAM of the project.
• Ensures compliance with the order schedule and its quality, proposes to the NAM of the project the necessary corrections and promotes its transmission to the Head of the Central Pharmacy of ALIMA.
• Develops and organizes health education sessions.
• Ensures the relevance of messages disseminated to mothers (feeding, weaning, diarrhea, etc.) and their understanding.
• Must ensure at each exit that the equipment used is present and in good condition.
• Provides advice or training on the means and techniques of use of the equipment to THEFC staff.
• Reports any damage to the equipment to the project NAM and/or referring physician.
• Makes a monthly inventory of equipment in partnership with logistics.
• With the Incharge, establishes the needs and their transmissions to the NAM of the project.
• Provides advice or training on the means and techniques of use of the equipment by ATFC staff.
• Ensures the rational and efficient use of the equipment made available to him as part of the project and assumes full responsibility for it.
• Participates in weekly meetings organized by the NAM of the project and/or referring doctor.
• Ensures that coordination information is transmitted correctly and continuously to the rest of his team.

Other - On request:

• Specific context-related activities
• Integrate all project activities with the activities of the health center as much as possible
• Be available at all times and flexible for project activities   
• Strictly respects the hierarchy and procedures in force in the project

Implementation of prevention measures against abuse of power, gender-based and sexual violence:

• Ensures that his/her team, partners and community members are aware of ALIMA's policy and have access to information (complaint escalation mechanism, focal point...).
• Facilitates the organization of training and awareness sessions
• Implements standards related to the prevention of abuse of power, gender-based violence and sexual violence.
• Ensures that team members and partners involved in the project (Ministry of Health, national partners, etc.) follow training and awareness sessions and apply the rules for preventing abuse.
• Contributes to creating and maintaining a nurturing and protective environment for his/her team, community members and project partners.

Required Qualifications
Education & Experience:

• Education: Nursing Diploma with nutritional training essential.
• Minimum of 1 year experience in CMAM management. Experience with NGO desirable.
• Experience with medical international NGO, an asset
• Team management and supervision skills
• Perfect knowledge of MS Office package, especially Excel
• Rigorous, stress resistant and good adaptation capacity
• English is mandatory (written, read, spoken), Hausa is essentiel

Applicant qualities:

• Sense of organization, method and autonomy - Adaptable and diplomatic
• Used to working in a team in multicultural contexts - Skills in training and support

Languages:

•  English is mandatory (written, read, spoken), Hausa is an essential

Application Closing Date
20th September, 2022.