Nurse Supervisor at ALIMA

Nurse Supervisor External: ATFC And OPDs – KAITA (KATSINA)

ALIMA’S SPIRIT: ALIMA’s purpose is to save lives and provide care for the most vulnerable populations, without any discrimination based on identity, religion or politics, through actions based on proximity, innovation, and the alliance of organizations and individuals. We act with humanity and impartiality in accordance with universal medical ethics. To gain access to patients, we undertake to act in a neutral and independent manner.
Our CHARTER defines the VALUES and PRINCIPLES of our action:

Putting the Patient First
Revolutionizing humanitarian medicine
Responsibility and freedom
Improve the quality of our actions
Placing trust
Collective intelligence
ALIMA promotes and defends the principles of fundamental human rights. ALIMA has a zero-tolerance approach towards those guilty of acts of gender and sexual violence as well as towards inaction in the face of alleged or proven acts of violence. The protection of those benefiting from and impacted by our intervention is our top priority in everything we do. Everyone collaborating with ALIMA is committed to:

Respect the charter, the code of conduct, the institutional policies including the policy of protection against abuse of power and sexist and sexual violence, the policy of prevention of corruption and fraud;

Report any violation of the policies, framework documents and procedures to a superior, to a referent or to alert@alima.ngo
CARING - INNOVATING - TOGETHER:

Since its creation in 2009, ALIMA has treated more than 4 million patients and today deploys its operations in 11 African countries. In 2018 we developed 41 humanitarian medical response projects to meet the needs of populations affected by conflicts, epidemics and extreme poverty. All of these projects are carried out in support to national authorities through nearly 330 health facilities (including 28 hospitals and 300 health facilities). Whenever possible We work in partnership with local NGO's to ensure that our patients benefit from the best and most relevant expertise wherever it is, whether within their own country or in the rest of the world. In addition, to improve the humanitarian response, we are carrying out operational and clinical research projects particularly in the field of the fight against malnutrition and viral hemorrhagic fevers

ALIMA’S TEAM: more than 2000 people are currently working for ALIMA. The field teams, closest to the patients, receive their support from coordination teams generally based in the countries’ capitals. These receive support from the 4 desk teams and the emergency and opening team based at the operational headquarters in Dakar, Senegal. The Paris and New York teams are actively working to raise funds and represent ALIMA. The rest of the ALIMA Galaxy includes individuals and partner teams working on behalf of other organizations such as medical NGOs BEFEN, ALERT Health, SOS Doctors / KEOOGO, AMCP, research organizations PACCI and INSERM, Bordeaux or Copenhagen Universities, the INGO Solidarités International and many others.
COUNTRIES WHERE WE WORK: Mali, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Guinea, South Sudan, Mauritania.

THE WORK WE DO covers: Malnutrition, Maternal Health, Primary Health, Pediatrics, Malaria, Epidemics (Ebola, Cholera, Measles, Dengue, Lassa Fever), Hospitalization, Emergencies, Gender Based Violence, Opening / Closing.

ALIMA in NIGERIA
The humanitarian crisis in Nigeria’s northeast and the Lake Chad region is one of the most severe ongoing crises in the world, now entering in its ninth year and shows no sign of abating.

In 2021, at least 8.7 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance in the worst affected states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe. Up to 5.1 million people risk being critically food insecure during the next lean season (June - August 2021), a level similar to 2016-2017 when famine was looming over Borno State

Nigeria is now facing a second wave of COVID-19 infections. Borno, Adamawa, Yobe states have recorded new cases. Aid actors are intensifying actions and prevention measures

Despite challenges including humanitarian space reduction, aid workers had already provided around 5 million people with life-saving assistance in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states in 2020.

Conflict, explosive remnants of war and insecurity have cut people off from their main means of livelihoods-farming and fishing. This causes major food insecurity in north-east Nigeria, which COVID-19’s effects on incomes have exacerbated: despite good crop yields, food insecurity is rising. Findings of the October2020 Cadre Harmonize (CH) analysis projected that about 5.1 million people in the three states will be food-insecure in the lean season between June and August 2021 – a 19% and 34% increase on the 2020 (after COVID-19 June CH Update) and 2019 figures respectively. According to the Nutrition and Food Security Surveillance Round 9, conducted in October 2020, the level of acute malnutrition increased in all the three states compared to 2019. Global acute malnutrition (GAM) rates of 10.7% were recorded in Borno, 7.5% in Adamawa and 13.6% in Yobe. According to the survey, several LGAs had high pockets of global acute malnutrition of above the 15% threshold (emergency phase), including Gubio, Magumeri, Mobbar and Bayo in Borno State and all LGAs in northern Yobe. Movement restrictions and insecurity continue to hamper the ability of IDPs, returnees and the host communities to access basic services, livelihoods, and land for farming and grazing. This means that more people will rely on humanitarian aid to survive in 2021.

In 2017, ALIMA continued to implement projects in Muna Garage in Jere LGA, where ALIMA performs general consultations for children under 5 and provides Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) to pregnant and lactating women (antenatal and postnatal consultations). An Outpatient Therapeutic Feeding Program (OTP) is also available for children under 5 suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in the clinic, where women and caretakers are trained to screen their children for malnutrition using the MUAC tape.

In Maiduguri MC, where ALIMA is working in partnership with the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), the Inpatient Therapeutic Feeding Center (ITFC) manages children under 5 suffering from SAM with medical complications in a 50-bed capacity building.

In December 2020, ALIMA conducted a needs assessment survey in the north of Yobe where a high level of acute malnutrition was recorded by nutrition sector. The results of this survey prompted ALIMA to open a nutrition and health project covering the Kasasuwa LGA, one of the most affected LGAs and where there was a gap. This project started in May 2021 and fund by ECHO aim to support Karasuwa health facilities and improve access to nutrition and health services including pediatrics healthcare and reproductive health.

ALIMA also support COVID-19 vaccination in Borno and Yobe with focus on most vulnerables.

In parallel ALIMA is opening an emergency nutrition project in Katsina state and is present is Owo state since 2018 for Lassa fever response and research.

POST TYPOLOGY

Mission Location: Nigeria Katsina State

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 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