Nursing Team (iCCM) Supervisor at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) - Belgium

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters, and exclusion from healthcare. Médecins Sans Frontières provides assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict. They do so irrespective of race, religion, creed, or political convictions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Nursing Team (iCCM) Supervisor

Location: Jega, Kebbi
Employment Type: Full-time

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, and evaluate the activities concerning nursing and the team associated, according to MSF values, policies and protocols and universal health standards, in order to warrant the quality and continuity of health care and the development of the plan of action.

Accountabilities

• Carry out the functions and tasks associated with nursing i.e., perform as a nurse or anaesthetist, whenever required or needed, to optimize the resources, contributing with his/her knowledge and experience.
• Implement all the protocols and hygiene procedures and supervise his/her team to follow the same standards, to warrant the quality of the care and service in his/her speciality.
• Organize and coordinate the activities of his/her team (week’s schedule, annual leave, absences, etc.), evaluate their performance and define and ensure the needs for training of staff, to ensure the coverage of the human resources needs and maintain high standards of quality.
• Carry out and/or supervise the (decentralized) pharmacy and medical equipment management (drugs orders, follow-up of the stock, storage conditions, inventories, follow-up of expired drugs and their destruction, drugs consumption, etc.) in his or her department, to satisfy the needs of material with efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensuring that all staff using medical devices are qualified and trained. Ensuring that cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols. Reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.
• Carry out and/or coordinate administrative (exit paper, transfer paper, etc.), information and data collection (patient files, forms, statistics, etc.) tasks, and elaborate regular reporting, to have updated and reliable information about the day-to-day activity in the project, output/ outcome, and support decision-making.
• Give feedback/ reports to the medical focal point.

Specific Accountabilities:

• Doing assessment of a new activity that may be implement in iCCM
• Working in collaboration with iCCM and EPI focal person in LGA level
• Supporting supervisors in the ward to ensure the quality of care and respect of the protocol in iCCM
• Supporting EPI team in ensuring the quality of cold chain and respect of the schedule during the vaccination campaign
• Supporting EPI and iCCM staff in ensuring that they have all necessary items needed to carry out their work.
• Training and updating corps and EPI team level when necessary
• The list above is not exhaustive, it is a summary, and as the activity evolves. It shall be updated accordingly.

Minimum Required Skills and Qualifications
Education:

• Nursing diploma essential.

Experience:

• 1-year experience with MSF or with other NGOs is an asset.
• iCCM experience is desirable

Languages:

• Mission language (English) is essential, and the Local language (Hausa, Fulani, Suru) is desirable.

Competencies:

• Commitment to MSF Principles L1
• Behavioural Flexibility L1
• Stress Management L1
• Results and Orientation L1
• Teamwork and Cooperation L1
• Service Orientation L1.

Application Closing Date
31st January, 2024.