Nursing Team Supervisor at Medecins Sans Frontieres

Main Purpose

• 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 the health care and the development of the plan of action.

Job Description

• Carry out the functions and tasks associated to nursing, 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 the team follow the same standards, in order to warrant the quality of the care and service.
• Organize and coordinate the activities (week’s schedule, annual leave, absences, etc.), evaluate performance of the team 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 the 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.

Requirements
Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing Science
• Nursing Diploma

Experience:

• 2 years’ experience minimum as a Nurse Team Supervisor or worked in MSF or other NGO’s

Desirable:
Languages:

• Essential, fluent in English / Hausa.

Knowledge:

• Essential computer literacy (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet).

Competencies: 

• Results.
• Teamwork.
• Flexibility.
• Commitment.
• Stress management.
• Proactive.