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  • Posted: Sep 3, 2024
    Deadline: Sep 6, 2024
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    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. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation...
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    Medical Doctor

    Main Purpose

    • Provide outpatient and/or inpatient medical care to patients/beneficiaries according to adapted and updated medical knowledge, MSF protocols, values and universal hygiene standards to improve the pa-tients / beneficiaries' health conditions.

    Job Description

    • Coordinating, assessing and supervising the proper functioning of the medical activities (HIV, TB STIs, SGBV, etc.), according to MSF protocols, standards and procedures and through the correct compilation and analysis of medical data regarding patients’ health conditions.
    • Participating in the definition of annual planning and budget for the project and in the follow up of the programs / project. Supervising and ensuring that medical activities objectives under his/her responsibility are achieved, reporting to the technical referent any problem arising in the service
    • Checking all administrative procedures related to patients’ follow-up (individual card filling, registers, paper exit, discharge, transfers ...) are carried out correctly and according to MSF procedures.
    • Ensuring an efficient pharmacy management and monitoring the rational use of them. In coordination with the project biomedical service supervising the appropriate use of medical devices and anticipating future needs. Preparing the medical orders needed to implement the medical activities under his/her responsibility, and identifying and reporting to the line manager, non-medical support needs (material, infrastructure, transport, etc.)
    • Coordinating and monitoring the daily working plan of the team under his/her responsibility (absent personnel, vacations, tracking leaves ...). Participating in shifts and replaces a doctor, if necessary
    • Planning and supervising, in close coordination with the HR department, the associated processes (recruitment, training, performance evaluation, development and internal communication) of the staff under his/her responsibility in order to improve staff capabilities and to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required
    • Participating in the monthly reports according to guidelines (i.e. SitReps, medical statistical reports, etc.)
    • Ensures that newly recruited Medical Doctors are inducted into the team with provision of proper orientation on various tasks needed to empower their work in the project.
    • Support in collaboration with other Managers and Activity managers in the induction of other medical and paramedical staff according to the need.
    • Ensures that every Medical Doctor in the project under his/her supervision has a well-defined objective set and Bilan review follow-up for every Bilan Cycle.
    • Plan and follow-up the routine implementation of Continuous Medical Education in the project and ensure continuous participation of all medical staff to promote the technical skill within the medical team.
    • Ensure the planning and conduct of regular mortality analysis in participation of the medical team in the project and adapt various outlined recommendation to the medical activities to ensure a quality care provision to the patients.
    • Ensure the availability of updated medical protocol to the medical team and follow-up with medical/pharmacy prescription in the project in line with MSF protocol.
    • Participate actively in various committee meetings in the project (IPC, Blood transfusion; project management, etc) and ensure that medical recommendations made by the committees are effectively carried out by the medical team.
    • Perform regular medical file audits in collaboration with the Pharma and Nursing Teams to ensure that medical standards are maintained within the team.
    • Participate and if possible, lead the investigation of medical errors in collaboration with the Nursing Team and profer appropriate mitigation measures.
    • Ensure that staff Health provision is offered to all MSF staff in line with the Staff Health Policy.
    • In collaboration with other managers promote good health practices within the project in line with MSF recommendation.
    • Knowledge of other partners and their activities for purpose of appropriate referral.
    • Participate in the investigation of epidemic prone diseases and alerts in the context around the project site.
    • Actively participate in the weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, etc. sitreps and in collaboration with the Data Team, ensure the quality of medically generated data in the project.

    Requirements
    Education:

    • Medical doctor or paramedical degree. Desirable specialization or training in Tropical Medicine or related studies (for OCB OCBA, this is essential too)

    Experience:

    • 2 years’ experience minimum as a Medical Doctor/General practitioner in clinical work (consultations, admissions, ward rounds, lab tests request and results interpretation). Desirable in tropical medicine, experience in pediatrics (Triage, Resuscitation, ICU, IPD, SAM, Infectious Diseases).

    Languages:

    • Fluent English (oral and written English), Hausa, Kanuri are Essential

    Knowledge:

    • Essential computer literacy (word, excel)

    Competencies:

    • People Management
    • Commitment
    • Flexibility
    • Results
    • Teamwork.

    Remuneration

    • According to MSF salary scale plus 13th month allowance equivalent to 1 month of gross salary

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Medecins Sans Frontieres on docs.google.com to apply

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