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Duties and responsibilities:
- Applying medical knowledge and skills to prevention, diagnosis and treatment of children, ensuring integrated new-born and paediatric care through Emergency, OPD, and IPD services in New-borns and cases of malnutrition. Prescribing the necessary treatment, respecting MSF protocols.
- Collaborating closely with the different department of the hospital (e.g. Maternity), Knowing and ensuring all updated MSF medical protocols and universal precautions are followed and implemented, reducing bio-hazard risks and improving infection control.
- As an expert in paediatrics, proposing strategy (modification on current new-born and paediatric care management) and implementing them after validation of Operation and Paediatric Advisor.
- Ensuring on-going new-born and paediatric training (formal and bedside) of the medical/paramedical multidisciplinary team in order to optimize the new-born and paediatric quality of care. Reviewing and discussing selected complicated cases or mistakes and giving technical input.
- Keeping patients and their families informed of the illness and the treatment to follow, checking that they have been understood. Ensuring professional autonomy and confidentiality are respected and a good attitude and proper bedside manner towards the patient and their care takers and the rest of the medical team.
- Following up the evolution of the hospitalized/IDP patients through daily visits, consultations and examinations, prescribing the necessary treatment following MSF protocols, deciding whether they can be discharged or transferred to other departments – in collaboration with other doctors- and informing their family about the patient’s evolution.
- Monitoring the proper functioning of the department, equipment or material and addresses the list of the missing item for new-born and paediatric activities. Providing inputs about general organization of the different paediatric wards, including the admission, transfer and discharge criteria + referral procedure from Maternity and post-delivery wards
- Checking and controlling the rational distribution of medicines and equipment under his/her responsibility and taking care the quality, disinfection and sterilization of the medical material. Assuring general compliance with standing hygiene standards.
- Participating in the introduction / improvement of the collection and analysis of epidemiological new-born and paediatric data, checking its validity and informing the line manager or project coordinator about any problems or complications of the patient’s illness and medical errors. Collecting Clinical cases for further trainings and list a series of comments to improve the current MSF protocols
- Managing 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.
- Designing and providing training to staff as required.
- Debriefing with coordination, Headquarter (including Paediatric Advisor) and providing written report on main findings, activities, conclusions and further recommendations.
In April 2023, civil war broke out in Sudan. Clashes have largely been focused in Darfur State, Khartoum State and Al-Jazeera state but it has extended beyond these areas. MSF OCA has maintained a consistent humanitarian presense in Khartoum State throughout the war, with activities largely being based in Al-Nao hospital. More recently, MSF has expanded activities in Omdurman to include interventions in Albuluk Pediatric Hospital. The NTS will take an active roll in planning and implementing all nursing activities within this project. The aim is to improve patient care in the malnutrition ward(s) that MSF supports. This includes capacity building, quality improvement interventions, and other ways of improving outcomes in collaboration with the SMoH and hospital staffs. The doctor will work closely with the MAM to identify gaps and obstacles and figure out ways of solving them. Specific Accountabilities in addition to the above; - In collaboration with the SMoH medical staff identify a way to work together and play an active role in case discussions and management
- Be involved in SMoH medical meeting relevant for this department, to ensure MSF involvement and collaboration.
- Identify training needs for the medical doctors, in line with the desire of SMoH/hospital management, to improve the medical management in the ITFC
- Design a training program for the ward doctors on nutritional management, in line with SMoH and WHO guidelines.
- In case there are obstacles or barriers in the collaboration with SMoH, flag these to the MAM, so that a constructive solution can be found in order to maintain our good relationship.
- Work together with the Nutrition Supervisor to promote synergy between the medical management and nutritional management done by nutritional assistants. With this will assist as well with the support on how the medical doctors can fill out the prescriptions on the specific documentation if required.
- Monitor the ATFC capacity for discharged patients. Whenever there appears to be a change in trend, the medical doctor will discuss this with his/her linemanagement, who will flag this to the Medical Team Leader.
- Work together with data encoder to ensure proper collection of data.
- Contribute to the medical narrative for the monthly medical report, in collaboration with the MAM
- Discuss with the IPC supervisor and/or NAM whenever important hygiene matters are observed, that should be improved in order to contribute to positive patient outcomes.
- Actively participate in MSF medical and general meetings held in the MSF Holland Office.
- Complete the following courses on Tembo as part of their onboarding: Basics of a nutrition programme (20 hours), OCA e-Pediatrics course (6 hours)
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