Main purpose
Organizing
and ensuring medical consultations to the target population providing treatment
to patients within the scope of his/her medical competencies and referring them
when appropriate, according to MSF protocols, procedures and
the universal hygiene standards in order to guarantee quality and efficiency of
the service provided.
Accountabilities
- Ensuring the implementation and standardization
of MSF clinical policies, tools, and hygiene protocols in order to minimize
clinical risks and to guarantee the quality of patient care management.
Promoting and maintaining confidentiality regarding all patient cases and
records
- Implementing diagnosis, prescription and
prevention procedures that fall under the scope of his/her competencies
applying medical knowledge, asking appropriate questions to patients and
following protocols in force as well as using laboratory services when
necessary, in order to ensure a correct implementation of the medical
treatments and to refer patients when appropriate.
- Participating in the planning and supervision,
in close coordination with other supervisors, the HR processes (sizing, staff
shifts, recruitment, training, evaluation, development and communication) of
the team in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge
required, improve people triage capabilities, their motivation and commitment
and their active participation in teaching the targeted population on
therapeutic and preventive protocols.
- Ensuring that all staff using medical devices
are qualified and trained. Ensuring cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are
performed according to the protocols. Reporting any malfunction to the project
biomedical service.
o In cases of emergency, carrying out first aid care and treatment
according to protocols in order to reduce mortality rates
o Recording in the individual patient’s card and registration books, all
performed medical activities (drugs prescribed, lab results, vaccination
status, epidemiological activity, doses, etc.) keeping data traceability in
order to ensure patients treatment continuity.
o Participating in data collection and reporting when required
o Knowing and implementing Patient Therapeutic Education (PTE), i.e.
keeping contact with all patients, providing them information regarding their
health state and responding to their questions.
o Knowing and promoting the proper application of Post Exposure
Prophylaxis (PEP) Kit and Sexually Gender Based Violence (SGBV) protocol.
Requirements
Requirements
Education
• Essential Clinical officer diploma
Experience
• Desirable previous clinical supervision experience of at least one
year.
Languages
• Proficiency in English and Kiswahili. Somali language knowledge would
be an asset.
Knowledge
• Desirable computer literacy
Competencies
• Results
and Quality Orientation L2
• Teamwork
and Cooperation L2
• Behavioural
Flexibility L2
• Commitment
to MSF Principles L2
• Stress
Management L3
Skills Required
- Essential Clinical officer diploma
- Desirable previous clinical supervision experience of at least one year
- Proficiency in English and Kiswahili
- Desirable computer literacy
What We Do
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent medical humanitarian organization that provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, and disasters.
