Nursing Team Supervisor at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• 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.
• Cultivate a close collaboration with ward in-charges, Deputy Matron and Matron for activities within MSF-supported wards in order to achieve implementation of best practice activities, training, stock management, and HR requirements (including roster review and approval, staffing issues, disciplinary reports and appraisals), using the Service Level Agreement as a guide.
• Assess knowledge gaps of nursing staff through daily physical observation and review of patient files to propose and facilitate formal trainings, on-the-job trainings and continuous medical education sessions.
• Monitor and mentor paramedical staff (nutritionists, patient caregivers, counsellors, social worker) by participating in or reviewing consults to ensure practices are within SOPs and guidelines.

Requirements

Education

• Diploma/Degree in Nursing; Must be registered with the Nursing Council of Kenya; Must have a valid practising license

Knowledge & Experience

• Essential 2 years of previous experience.
• Having worked in MSF or other NGO’s and in developing countries is desirable.
• Experience in managing HIV/TB Patients
• Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)
• Results and Quality Orientation

Languages

• Fluency in English and Kiswahili is a must, other local languages is a plus.

Competencies/Skills

• Results oriented, teamwork, flexibility, Commitment and stress management