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- Experience 2 years
- Location Borno
- City Maiduguri
Main Purpose
- Supervising the clinical activities and guaranteeing the quality of midwifery care in the department, according to MSF protocols, values and universal hygiene standards in order to provide a high quality Mother and Child Health (MCH) care to the population.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Supervising, supporting and evaluating the team under his/her responsibility particularly midwives, midwife assistants and other related staff in her team such as cleaners. Planning and organizing their work (areas, days, absences, visits, holidays, etc) and coaching them in their work with special focus in following all appropriate protocols and procedures
- Ensuring team work and a professional relationship between maternity and other departments.
- Supervising the clinical activities in all the maternity departments and activities such as ante-natal consultations, delivery and after delivery follow up, post-natal consultations, family planning consultations, new-born vaccinations and liaising with the Medical Doctor about the patients who need special care times, visiting hours, etc.
- Ensuring that the staff on duty knows, implements and follows at all times the universal hygiene standards/ precautions, bio-hazard prevention and infection control in the medical premises ensuring high standards of hygiene in the working environment
- Ensuring that all staff using medical devices are qualified and trained, cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols, reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.
- Being responsible for the department-related pharmacy activities (stock and consumption monitoring) as well as maintenance of the medical equipment
- Being responsible for ensuring that all the administrative procedures, patients’ data and documents are filled in correctly and registered for compiling monthly reports reflecting the activity in the department.
- In certain contexts, being responsible for ensuring that the maternity staff is able to identify, receive and provide care to the victims of the SGBV in collaboration with the Obs & Gyne MD and following the protocols.
MSF Section / Context Specific Accountabilities
- Provide leadership to the nursing Team in SRH department fostering positive and collaborative environment
- Together with MWAM support in bedside coaching and training of the nurses, nurse aids , Chew. Report the training needs to the Midwife Activity Manager in order to create and organize teaching tools and trainings together.
- Supervise the quality of nursing care provided: e.g. preparation and administration of medication, measuring and interpretation of vital signs, application of the medical protocols, clinical follow-up,and early detection of the medical complications.
- Assist in the morning ward round to identify problems that should be attended to immediately.
- Ensure a good and complete handover between the different shifts
- Ensure that comprehensible health education sessions are given for all caretakers, performed by the health promoters and the medical staff.
- Make sure that communication between the mental health counselor and other medical staff is clear and that mental health support is given to patients/caretakers needing it.
- Make sure that attention is paid to the psychosocial stimulation of the patients (HP, nurses, nurse aids, nutrition assistants).
- Ensure a good working relationship between all the staff in all the departments.
- Participate in quality improvemet and collaborate with IPC supervisors to improve Infection prevention measures
- Be flexible to work In anyother department in SRH SGBV,Family planning
- Assess and solve problems occurring between staff, in collaboration with the Midwife Activity Manager
- Any other role might be deemed important in SRH as requested by your Manager.
Minimum Required Skills and Qualifications
Education:
- Essential Midwifery qualification or Specialization. Desired Bachelor in Midwifery
Experience:
- Essential working experience of at least two years as a Midwife supervisor.
Competencies:
- Essential computer literacy (Word, Excel, internet)
- Essential English and Hausa
- Results and Quality Orientation, Teamwork and Cooperation, Behavioural Flexibility, Commitment to MSF Principles, Stress Management.
