Nursing Team Supervisor

Médecins Sans Frontieres “Doctors Without Borders” is a private, non-profit international humanitarian organization dedicated to providing medical assistance to populations in crisis, without discrimination and regardless of race, religion, creed or political affiliation

MSF-Belgium is currently seeking to hire NURSING TEAM SUPERVISOR.

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.

Accountabilities:

• Carry out the functions and tasks associated to nursing i.e. perform as a nurse or 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 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 (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.

Context Specific Accountabilities:

• Supervise nursing care given by MSF and ministry of health staff nurses in his/her assigned department.

• Assist with the collection of epidemiologic data.

جميع الحقوق محفوظة لموقع جوبس.

Education :      Speciality (nurse or anesthetist) diploma essential.

                          Valid Nurse Licence.

Experience :     Minimum 4 years of experience as a Nurse.

                           Having worked in MSF or other NGO’s and in developing countries is desirable.

                           Previous experience in ER, ICU, PHC, Trauma, Mass casualty response, Surgery, desirable.

Language :        English (fluent in spoken and written) and Arabic, essential.

Knowledge:       Basic computer skills including Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word.

                            Knowledgeable about pharmacy stock management.

This job description may be amended in line with the activities or evolution of the Mission.

Interested candidates should fill in the following form and attach there their CV, Motivation Letter, Copies of diplomas and work certificates, References:

Nursing Team Supervisor

Candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. In the event of a large number of applications being received, given the urgency of filling the position, MSF reserves the right to consider only the first applications in order of receipt or to close the vacancy before the initial closing date.
Médecins Sans Frontières, Human Resources Department – Gaza Project