Posted on: Tue 09-04-2024

Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organization. Our teams are committed to supporting civilians’ victims of marginalization and exclusion or hit by natural disasters, wars and economic collapses, by answering their fundamental needs. We aim to provide emergency relief to uprooted people to help them recover their dignity and regain self-sufficiency.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Health & Nutrition Supervisor

Location: Mashi, Katsina

Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities and Task

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 daily that the consultation rooms are provided with necessary equipment and consumables.
• Provide technical support to the SRH staff to diagnose and manage cases.
• Assist Midwives in the management of referral cases.
• Assist the staff 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 is properly secured as designed by PUI
• Verify daily 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 is well provided.
• Evaluate the quality of consultations by assessing clinicians once or twice/a month.
• Propose any implementation of medical protocols, update them if necessary, and ensure that the medical staff follow them.
• Monitor the rational use of medicines and the proper administration of treatments in step with national and international protocols.
• Ensure smooth implementation and integration of services among the health team and other PUI sector teams (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 the 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 members with DPM and PHC In charge, and follow up.
• Manage staff timetable, annual leaves, and attendance sheets.
• Organize teamwork regarding team capacity 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 their daily work.
• Ensure that all administrative procedures and documents (individual patient cards and registration book, referral form, death report 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 concerning 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 on 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's living conditions;
• Ensure the archiving of the documents, tools and training materials in the context of project/s and ensure 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 training

Other Duties:

• Be the focal point in the PHC with external partners. Explain how the PHC works, the difficulties faced, and their strengths.
• Ensure verbal and written handover at every duty shift to the team and emphasize 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.

Qualifications

Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree with 3-5 years experience.

Salary

N468,000 Month.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should:

Click here to apply online

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