Job Details
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an International Humanitarian Organization providing medical aid to populations in distress, victims of natural and manmade disasters and victims of armed conflict, regardless of race, religion and political believes. For more information, visit our Arabic website, www.msf-me.org
Médecins Sans Frontières France is looking for:
ICU NURSE SPECIALIST SUPERVISOR
Location: Sana’a – Covid 19 Project in Al Kuwait Hospital.
Contract duration: 3 months
Contract type: Full time contract Reporting to Hierarchical: Head Nurse
Key of responsibilities:
- Reporting to, communicating and collaborating with the Hospital Head Nurse in order to ensure the smooth and efficient running of the ICU activities. Working together with all the ICU team to achieve quality of care for patients. Maintaining patient’s confidentiality and dignity at all times and respecting the patient’s rights and conditions, being compassionate to patient needs
- Ensuring the general organization of the department, checking that care protocols and rules on security, hygiene and sepsis are followed by the health care and maintenance personnel and monitoring the quality of the global patient case management and the continuity of care. Participating in medical rounds in order to know the patients and follow the department’s activity. Encouraging daily health education sessions within the unit.
- Supervising and supporting the team under his/her responsibility e.g. ICU nurses. ICU nurse aids, and cleaners. Planning and organizing their work (areas, days, absences, visits, holidays, etc.) and coaching them in their work with special focus on following all appropriate protocols and procedures.
- Ensuring the quality of care by respecting and ensuring respect of the hospital’s ICU procedures and proposing action plans to ensure the quality of hygiene, quality of nursing care and respect of procedures. Train the nurses according to identified knowledge and experience gaps.
- Ensuring that staff using medical devices are qualified and trained. Ensuring cleaning and maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols. Reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.
- Managing the department’s stock and weekly orders (pharmacy and cleaners’ items, stationary). Ensuring the follow up of the consumption of drugs, consumables and other medical material and equipment under his/her responsibility and ensuring that ICU registers are well fulfilled and kept
- In close collaboration with the HR department, supervising the associated HR processes (training, induction, evaluation, potential detection, coaching, development and communication) in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required
- 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. Participating in the collection and analysis of medical data, identifying areas causing problems and implementing the necessary measures for the improvement of the service’s functioning
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
Education
Nursing Diploma, preferably specialization as an ICU nurse or as respiratory technician
Experience
At least 3-years’ experience as ICU Nursing, With Supervision experience.
Languages
Written and oral English, at least intermediate level
Knowledge
Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)
How To Apply
Applications must be in English language. Candidates should submit:
Cover Letter (mention the date of availability in cover letter), CV, Diploma, Work certificate, Valid Work licence. Short listed candidates will be asked to provide original copies of diplomas, copies of relevant training and work certificates, and any recommendations from previous employers to the following:
Médecins sans Frontières France
Please send your application to msff-yemen-recruitment@paris.msf.org (Please in the subject of the mail precise “ICU Nurse Supervisor-Sanaa”) Deadline for application: 13th June 2020 at 5pm
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews. No face-to-face contact or phone contact will be considered. Any documents sent to MSF-F (CV, cover letter, copies of diploma, recommendations letters) will not be returned by MSF-F.
