Nursing Team Supervisor Job at Medecins Sans Frontieres

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Give feedback/ reports to medical focal point.
• 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:

• Diploma/Degree in Nursing; Must be registered with the Nursing Council of Kenya; Must have a valid practising license
• 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
• Fluency in English and Kiswahili is a must, other local languages is a plus.

How to Apply

Submit your CV, copies of relevant documents and Application to  [email protected]

Use Nursing Team Supervisor – Homa Bay Project as the subject of the email.