Nursing Activity Manager

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, non-profit medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, pandemics, natural disasters, and exclusion from healthcare. MSF started working in Yemen since 1986 and have been present in the country continuously since 2007. Today, MSF works in 23 hospitals across the country, and provides support to more than 17 health facilities across 13 governorates, in line with our principles of independence, impartiality and neutrality. For more information, visit our Arabic website, www.msf-me.org

Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium in Yemen mission is looking for Yemeni nationals to recruit for the Nursing Activity Manager position:

Location: Mocha Project 
Contract Duration – 1 year renewable 
Contract type: Fixed – Term 
Reporting to:     Project Medical Referent
Supervises: Nursing Team Supervisor

MAIN PURPOSE

Defining, coordinating and monitoring all care and nursing related activities in the project and ensuring the daily management of the human resources, according to MSF nursing protocols, standards and procedures, in order to warrant efficiency, quality and continuity of prescribed care

Accountabilities

• Planning and organizing all nursing related activities (IPD, OPD, maternity, nutrition, etc.) and participating in the definition of annual planning and update of its associated budget in order to efficiently maintain the continuity of the standard quality healthcare.  When needed, being responsible for scheduling duty rosters, shifts and on call of nursing staff.
• Coordinating and supervising the implementation of the legal therapeutic protocols, procedures and standards, depending on project objectives (PPTCT, PEP, VCT, IEC, SGBV, MH services, etc.) and providing technical support when needed, to ensure the quality of the nursing care, confidentiality and information traceability, patient surveillance, and the application of the therapeutic and sterilization rules by the health care personnel. 
• Supervising the nutritional activities in order to ensure that therapeutic food is provided regularly and that it complies with quality and quantity standards
• Ensuring all administrative procedures and documents (individual patient’s card and registration book, discharge paper, transfer paper, etc.) and existing data management tools are used correctly
• According to MSF protocols and in collaboration with the Pharmacist and Medco, supervising the distribution (according to medical prescriptions) and pharmacy activity, preparing new orders when required, supervising expiration terms and consumption patterns, in order to ensure that pharmacy stock levels are permanently updated and above minimum safety point.
• In coordination with the project biomedical service supervising the appropriate use of medical devices and anticipating and communicating future needs. 
• In close coordination with the Logistics Manager, supervising laboratory outputs related to nursing activities (blood test) to ensure samples are collected correctly and results are provided on time. 
• In close coordination with the HR department, planning and supervising the associated processes (recruitment, training, evaluation, development and communication) of the nursing staff of the project in order to improve staff capabilities and ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required. Training nursing staff on PTE.
• Reporting to the line manager on any relevant information linked to nursing activities and participating in monthly reports 

Note: PPTCT = Prevention Parent to Child Transmission; PEP= Post Exposure Prophylaxis; VCT = Voluntary Counselling and Testing; IEC = Information, Education and Communication; SGBV = Sexually Gender Based Violence; MH = Mental Health; PTE = Patient Therapeutic Education

MSF Section/Context Specifics

• In collaboration with the other medical departments and support departments (Log, Supply, HR, Fin and Ops), following and supervising nursing activities in all departments including the ER, Paediatric OPD, IPD paediatrics, Outborn and Paediatric ICU, Nutrition, sterilisation, Vaccination, isolation
• Participating to and organizing new activities in the project
• Follow multidisciplinary joint rounds between Nursing, Medical, IPC, HP and EH teams to ensure comprehensive care for the beneficiaries
• Liaise with the various departments to ensure the implementation of various tools used in MSF to improve patient care at different intervals i.e. Stepwise Infection prevention and control approach - SIPCA assessment, Corrective and preventive actions - CAPA, Nursing care assessment tool – NCAT, etc.

Requirements 

Education

• Essential nursing diploma for general or specialized health services, Desirable bachelor in science of nursing 

Experience

• Essential: Working experience of at least two years either in pediatric, neonatology, pediatric ICU or pediatric ER
• Essential: At least 1 year working experience in supervision and management of staffs
• At least 1-year working experience with other I/NGO’s essential and at least 1-year working experience in MSF desirable
• Desirable: Experience in working with the DHIS system 

Language: 

• Arabic essential, good level of English essential

Knowledge: 

• Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)

Competencies:

• People Management and Development 
• Commitment to MSF Principles 
• Behavioural Flexibility 
• Results and Quality Orientation 
• Teamwork and Cooperation