Nursing Team Supervisor – Wadi Khaled, Akkar

-Starting date: 01 May 2021

-Type of contract: 100%, 12 months Fixed-Term Contract, Renewable

Updated competitive salary package with benefits including allowances, medical coverage and 5 weeks of paid leave

-Place of work: Wadi Khaled, Akkar

-Scope of responsibility:

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

-Function responsibilities include:

• Carry out the functions and tasks associated to nursing i.e. perform as a nurse or anesthetist, 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.
• 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 medical focal point.

-Specific activities:

• Carry out risk assessment to prevent, detect and control the spread of infection. Take appropriate and proportionate action to identified risk (providing personal protective equipment). Provide relevant information (policies and procedure) and training to all staff who directly or indirectly provide care
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams in the planning, organization and development of infection control activities
• Supervises laboratories, ward staff and allied hospital staff infection control activities and issues
• identify and ensures infection control procedures and processes implementation associated with risk of infection and best practices strategies to reduce risks
• Provides coaching and consultation to infection control champions and allied healthcare workers in relation to infection control practices.
• Monitors compliance of personnel with isolation techniques and other infection control procedures related to prevention of infection in patients and/or employees and establishes corrective action when indicated.
• Provides technical onsite support and technical skills enhancements for the nursing team and patients through regular technical auditing and instructions, and support to other departments when needed

-Experience required:

• At least 3 years of experience in supervisory position with infection prevention responsibilities
• Having worked in MSF or other NGO’s is desirable.

-Required qualification:

• Speciality (Nursing) diploma essential, Bachelor Degree in Nursing preferable
• Holder of a license and registration from the Lebanese Order of Nurses
• Essential computer literacy (word, excel, power point and internet)
• English and Arabic languages proficiency essential

-Personal qualification:

• Results and Quality Orientation Teamwork and Cooperation
• Behavioral Flexibility
• Commitment to MSF Principles 
• Stress Management