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Health & Nutrition Supervisor needed at Premiere Urgence Internationale

Job title : Health & Nutrition Supervisor

Job Location : Borno

Deadline : April 29, 2024

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Responsibilities
Monitoring and Supervision:

  • Ensure consultations and nursing duties organization, including triage, dressings, injections, and distribution of drugs according to nurses’ protocols, precautions, hygiene standards, and clinicians’ prescriptions.
  • Plan, organize and ensure the implementation of all sexual and reproductive health activities including ANC, PNC, Family planning, delivery, vaccination, and laboratory.
  • Verify on daily basis in that the consultation rooms are provided with necessary equipment and consumables.
  • Provide technical support to the SRH staff for to diagnoses and manage cases.
  • Assist Midwives in the management of the referral cases.
  • Assist the staffs during certain health care acts if necessary
  • Evaluate the quality of consultations by assessing midwives and midwife assistants once-twice a month
  • Ensure the SGBV survivors are handled with confidentiality and the record properly secured as designed by PUI
  • Verify on a daily basis that the consultation rooms are provided with necessary equipment and consumables.
  • Ensure that newborn babies are correctly monitored from delivery to discharge and that all pregnant women and new-borns are referred to the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI
  • Provide technical support to the clinician for diagnoses and management cases.
  • Assist the clinicians in the management of the referral cases.
  • Ensure that health education according to the protocols and key messages are well provided.
  • Evaluate the quality of consultations by assessing clinicians once or twice/month.
  • Propose any implementation of medical protocols, update it if necessary, and ensure that the medical staff follow it.
  • Monitor the rational use of medicines and the proper administration of treatments in step with national international protocols.
  • Ensure smooth implementation and integration of services among the health team and other PUI sector team (MHPSS, Nutrition, food security, protection).

Drugs and Medical Equipment:

  • Ensure that PHC is properly supplied with materials and drugs.
  • Prepare drugs and materials requests in collaboration with the team, DPM and SRH supervisor.
  • Ensure that expiry dates of drugs are checked.
  • Ensure that drugs and materials storage respect standard rules (hygiene, notification, stock cards…)
  • Ensure that the medical material is clean and sterilized.

Team Management:

  • Plan Monthly schedule for the OPD and SRH team member with DPM and PHC In charge, and follow up.
  • Manage staff timetable, annual leaves, and attendance sheets.
  • Organize team work regarding team capacity in order to cover all PHC needs.
  • Ensure the respect of Première Urgence Internationale rules and inform the DPM of any disrespect of the rules.
  • Participate in the regular evaluation of medical staff in collaboration with the DPM.
  • Organize and monitor the waste management according to the waste management procedures
  • Ensure that the workplace is clean.
  • Support the OPD and SRH teams in its daily work.
  • Ensure that all administrative procedures and documents (individual patient cards and registration book, referral form, death report from etc.) and existing data management tools are used correctly.
  • Schedule regular meetings with OPD and SRH staff to communicate updates and raise challenges encountered by the team.
  • Ensure that all patients are treated equally with respect of ethical and confidential issues and Première Urgence Internationale Charter
  • Work in close collaboration with the deputy health program manager and report all his/her activities, observations and needs
  • Debrief any new PUI or MOH staff of the PHC system and regulations.

Medical Data Collection and Reporting:

  • Supervise the data collection:
  • Medical prescription (readable, dated and signed);
  • Epidemiological data;
  • Drugs and medical materials consumption;
  • General information about the people living conditions;
  • Ensure the archiving the documents, tools and training materials in the context of project/s and ensures the availability of the verification sources mentioned in the proposals.

Trainings:

  • Ensure training of the medical team in collaboration with DPM
  • Ensure training of awareness team in collaboration with HPM
  • Assess the training needs of the staff
  • Assess the level of knowledge after the trainings

Other Duties:

  • Be the focal point in the PHC with external partners. Explain how the PHC works, difficulties faced, and strengths.
  • Ensure verbal and written handover at every duty shift to the team and emphasize on specific events.
  • Translates documents and/or interprets conversation when necessary.
  • Participate actively in meetings as required.
  • Participate in any other activities such as vaccination, survey, etc. according to the needs
  • Report to the DPM/PM any problem in the clinic especially the gap/loss/robbery/damage of medical equipment or medicines or any patient and organizational issue
  • Comply with PUI security procedures at all times.
  • Remain aware of the security situation in office and clinic locations at all times and provide feedback to the health program manager.
  • Be available for any emergency.

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