Job Openings at Medecins Sans Frontieres

Main Purpose

• Provide outpatient and/or inpatient medical care to patients/beneficiaries according to adapted and updated medical practices, MSF protocols and guidelines, values and universal hygiene standards.

Job Description

• Apply medical knowledge and skills to diagnose and prevention. Carry out outpatient and inpatient consultations, prescribing the necessary treatment respecting MSF Guidelines and protocols.
• Keep the patient and/or his/her family informed about the nature of the illness, its evolution and provide appropriate explanations about the treatment to follow, checking they have understood.
• Follow up the evolution of the hospitalized patients through daily visits/rounds, examinations, telemedicine consultations and prescribing the necessary treatment plans in line with the updated MSF Guidelines and protocols, deciding whether they can be discharged or transferred to other departments.
• Check and control the rational distribution of medicines and equipment under his/her responsibility and take care of the quality, disinfection and sterilization of the medical material.
• Respect all the constituted IPC protocols, Universal Based Precautions and Transmission Based Precautions within the hospital
• Participate in the collection and analysis of epidemiological data, checking its validity and informing the line manager or project coordinator about any problem or complication of the patient’s treatment, medical error and monitors the proper functioning of the department, equipment or material.
• Ensure ongoing training of the medical/paramedical multidisciplinary team in order to optimize the quality of care.
• Ensures professionalism and that confidentiality of patients’ information is respected, use of Patient Centered Care approach at all stage of Healthcare delivery to our beneficiaries.
• Manage the team under his/her direct responsibility according to MSF HR policies and procedures, supervising their performance, organizing and scheduling shifts and rotations, directly participating in emergencies and on calls if necessary.
• Active participation in the weekly presentations of medical topics for continous medical education
• Active participation in the mortality reveiws
• Ensuring knowledge of updated MSF Guidelines and Protocols and Policies
• Active participation in other project activities and meetings.
• Follows the referral procedure, adhering to MSF referral guidelines seeking the validation of all referrals by the medical activity manager
• Participate in the morning medical meeting and ensure handover is done before leaving the service
• Participate to the development of reforms in working strategies.
• Reporting all forms of abuse within the facility to your line manager or other constituted authorities.
• Perform daily ward rounds in pediatric wards
• Support in the Emergency department during increase activity days, even when rostered to other wa

Requirements
Education:

• Medical Doctor with MBBS or MBChB

Experience:

• 2-year experience minimum as a Medical Doctor or in clinical work (can be within medical training). Desirable in tropical medicine, or post-registration experience in Public Health, obs and gynae, pediatrics, A, infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS/STDs, TB, general practice, general medicine or minor surgery.

Languages:

• English and Hausa

Knowledge:

• Essential computer literacy (word, excel)

Competencies:

• People Management
• Commitment
• Flexibility
• Results
• Teamwork

Contract:

• 208 working hours per month

Remuneration

• Monthly Gross salary according to MSFF salary scale,plus 13th month allowance equivalent to 1 month of gross salary

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Main Purpose

• Plan, organize, and evaluate the activities concerning vaccination 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.

Accountabilities

• Carry out the functions and tasks associated to vaccinator i.e. perform as a vaccinator, 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 speciality.
• 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 (vaccines orders, follow-up of the stock, storage conditions, inventories, follow-up of expired drugs and their destruction, vaccines consumption, etc.) in his or her department, in order to satisfy the needs of material with efficiency and effectiveness.
• Carry-out and/or coordinate administrative (exit-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

• Participate in the implementation of the vaccination strategy in the project
• Performing vaccination of a target population, typically children in ITFC/IPD/ATFC according to MSF principles and values and universal hygiene standards, in order to improve health conditions of the target population
• Ensuring safe and correct administration of the vaccination according to the specific vaccine requirements according to the EPI schedule
• Following the universal guidelines for management of vaccines (cold chain, administration), reporting any anomaly, checking all vaccine vials (content, label, expiry date) before each session and disposing correctly of sharps after use
• Recording the given vaccination details in the registration book and other reporting/follow up tools such as tally sheet and report for EPI/MOH (Form 1)
• Reporting on consumption and ordering regularly to prevent any ruptures in stock.