Vacancy at Médecins du Monde
Employment Nigeria
23-Feb-2017
MAIDUGURI ,
NGO
Médecins du Monde - an international humanitarian non-profit organization that provides emergency and long-term medical care to vulnerable populations while advocating for equal access to healthcare worldwide.
POSITION : Nurse Trainer (M/F)
Responsibilities
- As the nurse medical trainer, you are responsible for overseeing the quality and technical aspects of the nurses and Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) staff, and other medical activities as needed, through formal and on-the-job training and supervision.
- You are under the direct supervision of the health program coordinator.
More specifically, you will:
- Identify needs of trainings, with a focus on nurses and OTP staff, and ensure formal and informal trainings.
- Conduct trainings and follow up for all health care workers, including volunteers, on key health and nutrition messaging.
- Organize/Participate to triage activities in the clinic.
- Oversee the quality of the paramedics’ activities.
- Oversee the quality of the outreach therapeutic program (nutrition).
- Ensure direct care to patients when necessary.
- Support the referral of medical cases under supervision of the medical supervisor.
- Monitor the quality of the prescriptions given by the clinic doctors.
- Ensure the monitoring of program activities are developed and implemented.
- Ensure nutritional data collection, reporting and communication from daily health activities & pharmaceutical data.
- Ensure statistical follow up of nutrition and paramedical data’s in the monitool.
- Participate to internal meetings and external medical meetings.
Experience Needed
- Nursing Diploma
- Public Health certificate/training
- At least 2 years of professional experience as Nurse
- At least 1 previous experience with an I.NGO is required (with MDM is an asset)
- Ability to provide quality training
- Relevant qualifications in Emergency Nutrition, IYCF, screening and treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition is required
- Ability to create tools and monitoring process
- Working experience in insecure environments is an advantage
- Good knowledge of MS Office tool pack
Excellent Organisational skills:
- Strong interpersonal and intercultural skills
- Able to prioritize, to work under stressful situation and specific security context
- Flexible
Languages:
- Excellent English is mandatory (oral and written),
- French is an asset
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