Nurse Team Supervisor

at Medecins sans Frontieres
Location Gadarif Umrakuba, Sudan
Date Posted November 1, 2022
Category Supervisor
Job Type Contract
Currency SDG

Description

MSF - Swizerland - Sudan

Médecins sans Frontières is a private international medical emergency organisation. It provides assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflicts, and does so irrespective of race, religion, creed or political convictions.

 

 Vacancy No: 2
 Section/Unit: Medical
 Grade Level: 8
 Supervisor: Nurse Activity Manager
 No. of Post: 1
 Duty Station: Gadarif Umrakuba Camp
 Duration: 6 months
 Closing Date: 03 Nov 2022
 Background:

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. 

 Duties and responsibilities:
  1. Main Purpose
Plan, organize, supervise 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 the health care and the development of the plan of action.
  1. Accountabilities
  • Carry out the functions and tasks associated to nursing i.e. perform as a nurse, 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 follow the same standards, to warrant the quality of the care and service in his/her department
  • 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, in order to ensure the coverage of the human resources needs and maintain high standards of quality.
  • Provide technical support to the teams under his/her supervision by encouraging the m to participate in the medical rounds, medical technical trainings, mortality reviews, case presentations and participate actively in-patient care follow up following the MSF guidelines in place
  • Ensure staff capacity building plan is always in place by providing on bedside trainings using MSF nursing/IPC guidelines
  • Carry out and/or supervise the end user 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, in order 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, always keep in loop the direct supervisor/Line manager
  • 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, in order to have updated and reliable information about the day-to-day activity in the project, output/ outcome and support decision-taking.
  • Give feedback or report any challenge to the direct supervisor/Line manager for better management and quality care improvement
 Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required:
  1. Education
Speciality (nurse ) diploma essential.
  1. Experience
Essential 2 years of previous experience. Having worked in MSF or other NGO’s and in developing countries is desirable.
  1. Languages
Mission and local language essential.
  1. Knowledge
Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)
  1. Competencies
  • Results
  • Teamwork
  • Flexibility
  • Commitment
  • Stress management

 

 

Applying Instructions

To apply  please submit your CV, Educational Certificates, work Experience, Your ID and full registration to practice to MSF office in Doak, Labour office Gadarif or HAC Gadarif.

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