Nursing Team Supervisor at Medecins Sans Frontieres

Main Purpose

• Plan, organize, and evaluate the activities concerning his/her field of action (Nursery, laboratory, midwifery, anesthesiology) 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.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Carry out the functions and tasks associated to his/her specialty, i.e. perform as a nurse, midwife, lab tech and anesthetist, whenever required or needed, in order 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, in order to warrant the quality of the care and service in his/her specialty.
• 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.
• 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, 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
• 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/ reports to medical focal point.

MSF Section / Context Specific Accountabilities

• Provide leadership to the nursing Team in SRH department fostering positive and collaborative environment
• Together with MWAM support in bedside coaching and training of the nurses, nurse aids Chew. Report the training needs to the Midwife Activity Manager in order to create and organize teaching tools and trainings together.
• Supervise the quality of nursing care provided: e.g. preparation and administration of medication, measuring and interpretation of vital signs, application of the medical protocols, clinical follow-up,and early detection of the medical complications.
• Assist in the morning ward round to identify problems that should be attended to immediately.
• Ensure a good and complete handover between the different shifts
• Ensure that comprehensible health education sessions are given for all caretakers, performed by the health promoters and the medical staff.
• Make sure that communication between the mental health counselor and other medical staff is clear and that mental health support is given to patients/caretakers needing it.
• Make sure that attention is paid to the psychosocial stimulation of the patients (HP, nurses, nurse aids, nutrition assistants).
• Ensure a good working relationship between all the staff in all the departments.
• Participate in quality improvement and collaborate with IPC supervisors to improve Infection prevention measures
• Be flexible to work in another department in SRH SGBV, Family planning
• Assess and solve problems occurring between staff, in collaboration with the Midwife Activity Manager
• Any other role might be deemed important in SRH as requested by your Manager.

Minimum Required Skills and Qualifications

Education:

• Speciality Nurse (Pediatric Nurse / OT Nurse) Diploma essential.

Experience:

• Essential 2 years of previous experience Having worked in MoH, MSF or other NGO’s and in developing countries is desirable.

Competencies:

• Essential computer literacy (Word, Excel)
• Essential English and Hausa