NURSING TEAM SUPERVISOR - Call for Roster Candidates Pool for Recruitment on Short term Temporary Basis Medecins Sans Frontieres Belgium
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) translates to Doctors without Borders. We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - bound together by our charter. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.
MSF was founded in 1971 in Paris by a group of journalists and doctors. Today, we are a worldwide movement of nearly 65,000 people.
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.
Duties and responsibilities:
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 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.
Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required:
Education
Specialty (nurse or anesthetist) diploma essential.
Experience
Language:
Knowledge
Essential: 2 years of previous experience. Having worked in MSF or other NGO’s and in developing countries is desirable.
Essential: clinical nursing experience in more than one hospital medical department e.g. (Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Inpatient Department, Operating Theater, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, etc)
Recommended: experience managing large teams and interacting with colleagues from different cultural backgrounds
Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required
Requirements:
Interested candidates are requested to send the applications with documents; (motivation letter,Updated CV, Educational certificates, work experience certificates, previous employers’ references, and copy of their national ID) to:
