Nursing Team Supervisor

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 Team Supervisor position:

Location: Mocha Project 
Contract Duration – 1 year renewable 
Contract type: Fixed – Term 
Reporting to: Nursing Activity Manager

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.

MSF Section/Context Specifics

• In collaboration with other medical managers ans supervisors, capacity build the staff nurses on different nursing competencies (IPC, Nursing procedures, GPP, etc)
• Ensure that Patient Safety Incidences are reported with the line manager and PMR. 
• Activately support in carrying out audits, surveys that will improve the quality of care. 

Requirements 

Education

• Nursing diploma is essential (specialized nurse (OT, ICU, etc) or anaesthetist).

Experience

• Essential two years of previous experience in MSF or other I/NGO’s. 
• Essential one year of Management/ Supervisory experience

Language: 

• Arabic essential, good level of English essential

Knowledge: 

• Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)

Competencies:

• Results
• Teamwork
• Flexibility
• Commitment
• Stress management