Medical Supervisor at Medecins du Monde (MdM)

Medecins du Monde (MdM) is an international humanitarian organization whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations, the world over, including France. It seeks to stimulate voluntary commitment from doctors, other health care providers, and from those whose expertise in other fields is needed for its activities, to enlist all competent support required for the achievement of its projects, and to seek at all times to encourage close working relationships with populations in its care. MdM operating in Nigeria, Borno state since October 2016.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Medical Supervisor

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Employment Type: Full-time

Main Mission

• To directly supervise a medical and/or paramedical team.
• To implement medical and/or paramedical activities.
• To promote the quality of medical activities, practices, and data.

Main Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the head Program manager, the Medical Supervisor will be responsible for the following main activities:

• Supervise the day-to-day activities of one of MDMs field clinics
• Act as focal point for the clinic in the field
• Providing technical and operational support to mobile clinic staff and/or OTP staff
• Management and leadership of Clinic team
• Collection and analysis of health & pharmaceutical data
• Supporting the development of coherent project implementation strategy
• Reporting and attendance to different meetings
• Manage Community Health Workers
• Liaise with medical trainers to ensure the delivery of quality SRH, CMAM, PHC services to the target population.

Tasks Description

• Providing technical support to mobile clinic staff
• Train MC staff on medical protocols including hygiene protocols
• Ensure use and respect of medical protocols through observation and supervision of medical and paramedics staff
• Implement regular on-the-job trainings and supportive supervision according to a weekly/monthly schedule
• Train and supervise CHW working in mobile clinic areas
• Establish mechanisms of providing regular weekly/monthly feedback on statistics and health activities to Clinic Staff
• Plan and implement thematic capacity building or specific trainings according to the identified needs for MC staff and/or OTP staff
• Participate in establishing/improving referral system
• Supervise drugs stock management in mobile clinics and OTP
• Work in close collaboration with the MDM medical trainers to ensure comprehensive on-the-job training for each of the specialities: SRH, PHC, EPI, Nutrition, LAB,
• Oversee and support the implementation of best practices introduced by trainers and HPC.

Operational Management of Clinic team:

• Act as focal point for liaison with community leaders and representatives in clinic area of operation
• Lead on coordination with other actors, including UN, INGO and GoN, in clinic area of operation
• Provide regular, timely updates to Health Program Coordinator
• Organize the weekly schedule of the Clinic team to ensure the smooth running of the activities
• Ensure that Clinic medical and paramedics staff respect their assigned tasks
• Provide strong leadership to ensure Clinic staff understand and work according to MdM principles.

Collection and analysis of health  & pharmaceutical data:

• Ensure the implementation of data collection protocols, working closely with the database officer and HPC
• Ensure accurate collection of MC/OTP data
• Monitor the drugs consumption by establishing/maintaining mechanisms of consumption record and inform the Health Program Coordinator and Pharmacist in case of any unusual consumption, or stock shortages
• Identify and rectify gaps or weaknesses in medical activities by using monitoring and supervision tools
• Ensure rapid communication of suspect communicable disease to HPC

Developing coherent project implementation strategy:

• Assist in preparing and implementing operational action plan for MC and/or OT component in collaboration with MdM coordination team
• Assist in the implementation of the project activities in collaboration with MdM coordination team
• Assist MdM Health Program Coordinator and MdM medical coordinator in preparing data collection tools as well as medical and paramedics protocols

Reporting and attendance to different meetings:

• Prepare weekly activities report to submit to the head medical supervisor.
• Compile epidemiological reports for inclusion in medical reports or any other relevant reports
• Support the pharmacist to compile drug consumption report per month
• Participate in a pro-active way to MdM internal meetings (medical, security…).

Educational Qualification & Experience

• Medical Doctor (MBBS), Nursing, Public Health
• 3 - 5 years relevant work experience.
• Experience in Management of clinic Health project
• Experience in team management and communication
• Experience in capacity building and tool development
• Experience in proposal development and reporting.

Skills:

• Proficient in micro soft and excel word, power points,. Outlooks, teams, skype and Kobo collect, PowerBI, and any other soft wares used in data collection.
• Masters of local language, good English and verbal communication.

Others:

• Establish good relationship with the different stakeholders to have a smooth implementation of MdM project.
• Be flexible in performing his/her duties to ensure that beneficiaries are getting good quality services
• Inform immediately the security focal point in case of any security problem in the field
• Perform other additional duties on request of the head medical supervisor and coordination team.

Because of the emergency relief nature of MDM’s work, working hours may be irregular and employees are expected to be flexible in their approach to working hours under emergency conditions.

• He/she works under the supervision of the Health Program manager,
• The employee shall respect Médecins du Monde - France’s schedule and Terms and Conditions of Engagement for National Staff and is expected to be available anytime in order to answer to an emergency situation and be flexible and available beyond normal working hours if requested.
• This job description can be modified according to changes in MDM activities or in the context. It can be amended at any time after mutual consultation, in order to fit the requirements of the programs.
• Made in English in two original copies, one for the employee and one for MDM, in Nigeria.

Application Closing Date
26th December, 2023.