JOB TITLE: Midwife Supervisor
JOB LOCATION: Kano
JOB DETAILS:
Scope of Responsibilities and Accountabilities
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- Supervising the clinical activities and guaranteeing the quality of midwifery care in the department, according to MSF protocols, values and universal hygiene standards in order to provide a highquality Mother and Child Health (MCH) care to the population.
Accountabilities
- Supervising, supporting and evaluating the team under his/her responsibility particularly midwives, midwife assistants and other related staff in her team such as cleaners. Planning and organizing their work (areas, days, absences, visits, holidays, etc) and coaching them in their work with special focus in following all appropriate protocols and procedures
- Ensuring team work and a professional relationship between maternity and other departments.
- Supervising the clinical activities in all the maternity departments and activities such as ante-natal consultations, delivery and after delivery follow up, post-natal consultations, family planning consultations, new-born vaccinations and liaising with the Medical Doctor about the patients who need special care times, visiting hours, etc.
- Ensuring that the staff on duty knows, implements and follows at all times the universal hygiene standards/ precautions, bio-hazard prevention and infection control in the medical premises ensuring high standards of hygiene in the working environment
- Ensuring that all staff using medical devices are qualified and trained, cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols, reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.
- Being responsible for the department-related pharmacy activities (stock and consumption monitoring) as well as maintenance of the medical equipment
- Being responsible for 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.
- In certain contexts, being responsible for ensuring that the maternity staff is able to identify, receive and provide care to the victims of the SGBV in collaboration with the Obs&Gyne MD and following the protocols.
Minimum Requirements
- Diploma of Midwife (or any Diploma recognized in the country and /or the Ministry of Health to practice as such)
- Essential working experience of at least two years in midwife activities related jobs
- Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)
- Commitment, Flexibility, Stress Management, Results, Teamwork, Service.
Competencies:
- Results
- Teamwork
- Flexibility
- Commitment
- Service.
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Applications must be in English and include:
- Complete CV and Copies of all certificates and diplomas mentioned in the CV.
- Up-dated contact details and ID
- Contact information of the previous employer(s) for reference.
Deadline: May 14, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Medical/ Healthcare / Pharmaceutical, Supervisor |