Nurse Team Supervisor - Mmc

MAIN ACTIVITIES

Plan, organize, and evaluate the activities concerning nursing and the team associated, according to ALIMA 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

TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Carry out the functions and tasks associated to nursing i.e. perform as a nurse, 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 specialty.
• 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.
• Draw up outpatients' activity planning
• Check that medical and nutrition prescriptions are carried out.
• Check the diffusion, knowledge and application of medical, nutritional and anthropometric protocols.
• 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 nursing activity manager or PMR

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Education

• Diploma in Nursing, Bachelor of Nursing qualification. Desirable with a nutritionist diploma from a recognised and accredited institution
• Must possess a valid practising licence.

Experience

• Essential 2 years of previous experience. Having worked in ALIMA or other NGO's and in developing countries is desirable.

Language

• English and local language essential, Hausa and Kanuri

Skills

• Perfect knowledge of MS Office packages, especially Excel & Word
• Results
• Teamwork
• Flexibility
• Commitment
• Stress management