Nursing Team Supervisor at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) – France Full Time

Job Title: Nursing Team Supervisor

Location: Katsina

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.

Job Description

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

Requirements
Education:

• Recognized Nurse Degree / Diploma
• Bachelor’s in Science of Nursing Desirable.
• Valid NCN Registration and practicing Licence.

Experience:

• Desirable 2 years of previous experience as Nurse Supervisor  and previous experience in other NGO’s.
• Demonstrable experience in supervising and training others in a team setting.

Language:

• English and Hausa essential; and any other local language desirable.

Contract:

• 208 working hours per month and roster flexibility required

Remuneration
According to MSF France salary grid.

Application Closing Date
5.00pm 7th August, 2021.

Note

• Please make sure to submit your application on or before the application deadline.
• Only successful applicants will be called for next steps.
• No monetary transactions, neither demands of favours in kind, nor other types of favouritism will be tolerated in the MSF recruitment process.
• MSF reserves the right to refuse hiring a candidate having benefitted from any such acts. All illicit demands may be pursued through the judicial system.
• MSF is an equal opportunity employer and encourages any Nigerian citizen to apply irrespective of race, gender, religion, creed, political affiliation.