Job Openings at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Main Purpose

Organize and ensure medical consultations for patients and/or a target population providing treatment to patients within the scope of his/her medical competencies and referring patients with conditions falling beyond his competencies, in order to guarantee quality and efficiency of the service provided. This will be done in accordance to the context, MSF protocols, procedures and the universal hygiene standards.

Accountabilities

• Ensure the implementation and standardization of MSF clinical policies, tools, and hygiene protocols in order to minimize clinical risks and to granting quality of patient case management.
• Promote and maintain confidentiality regarding all patient cases and records
• Implement diagnose, 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.
• Participate in the planning and supervising, 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.
• Carry out first aid care and treatment according to protocols in case of an emergency in order to reduce mortality rates
• Record in individual patient’s card and registration books all medical activities (drugs prescribed, lab results, vaccination status, epidemiological activity, doses, etc) performed keeping data traceability in order to ensure patients treatment continuity.
• Participate in data collecting and reporting when required
• Know and implement Patient Therapeutic Education (PTE), i.e. keeping contact with all patients, providing them information regarding their health state and responding to their questions.
• Know and promote the proper application of Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) Kit and Sexually Gender Based Violence (SGBV) protocol.

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities

• Perform consultations to patients due to undergo surgery, evaluating the risks of operating in collaboration with the surgeon/Medical officer, checking that patients authorize their operations in writing, providing them with appropriate information on their illness and treatments, and deciding on what type of anaesthetics to be used, in order to collaborate in setting everything up before surgery.
• Evaluate the risk of operating in collaboration with the Surgeon Doctor.
• Carry-out all nursing anaesthetics related activities during surgery, according to the procedures set before-hand by the doctor anaesthetist (if any); to collaborate in patient’s adequate anaesthetized state and safety during the process.
• Prepare beforehand the drugs, material, and equipment required.
• Administer and maintain anaesthetics following the rules of hygiene and asepsis in force.
• Monitor patients throughout the whole intervention.
• Provide post-operative care, including immediate post-operative surveillance in the recovery room (ensuring patient’s recovery of consciousness and setting analgesic protocol) and special patients present in the intensive care unit, to adapt the prescriptions (hydric resuscitation, anti-biotherapies, analgesics), with special focus on patient’s pain relief, during the stabilization and recovery process.
• Do round consultations with the Surgeon/ Medical officer once or twice a day, discussing therapeutic orientations with the department manager, renewing prescriptions and ensuring they are followed and systematically evaluating patients’ pain to adapt prescriptions and/or therapies for their relief.
• Implement and follow at all times hygiene rules, procedures and protocols, as well as look after the integrity of anaesthesia material (decontamination, sterilization, storage conditions, etc.) and other equipment, in order to ensure the safety and protection of patients and other staff. Know accidental blood exposure policy and procedure and implements them when necessary.
• Carry out all pharmacy related activities (stock control, station’s re-stocking, inventories, expired drugs, etc.) and other equipment of anaesthetic ward, doing special follow-up of narcotics and sedatives (register, consumptions, empty phials, etc.), ensuring enough stockup and the good functioning to carry-out the medical activities. Draw up pharmacy orders according to needs.
• Collaborate with other departments within the project (responding to accident emergency department requests, intervening in support of other services when needed, etc.), to support the overall MSF project with his/her expertise and capabilities.
• Carry out administrative procedures and documents (fill in of patients files, forms, statistics, data base, etc.), to have updated and correct information about the day-to-day activities.
• In collaboration with the Surgeon/ medical officer Doctor, carry out quantitative surgical anaesthesia data collection, draw up and send out reports for the monthly follow up of perisurgical mortality and for the quality of anaesthesia/pain management and informs immediately the direct supervisor in the event of medical error.
• Support other medical services whenever needed, particularly accident and emergency department and midwifery and obstetrics team in the maternity department (specially to resuscitate newborns).
• Reference person for pain problems within the health facility.
• When applicable train other medical staff.

Requirements

Education

• Essential clinical officer diploma and higher diploma in Anaesthesia

Experience

• Essential, 2 years of relevant working experience.
• Experience with NGOs/MSF is desirable.

Languages

• English Essential, local (Kiswahili/Somali) language desirable.

Knowledge

• Desirable computer literacy

Competencies

• Result
• Teamwork
• Flexibility
• Commitment
• Stress management

If you meet the above requirements, please send your CV, motivation letter on or before the 21 st March 2022 

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Work Location: Mombasa Project

Start date: March 2022

Length of contract: 2 months fixed term contract

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian action-driven organization, which offers assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict, without discrimination and irrespective of race, religion, creed or political affiliation. 26 associations, 23 sections, and 16 branch offices make-up the international movement and work in partnership around 6 operational entities.

You can learn more about MSF on our website or via our digital channels –  Facebook,  Instagram, Twitter and  LinkedIn.

The selected candidate will be reporting to the Logistics Manager/Base and Facilities Officer

Main Purpose

Carrying out surveillance and guarding activities in MSF facilities, according to MSF protocols and security rules, in order to ensure the safety and security of all mission’s personnel and premises.

Accountabilities

• Surveying the MSF premise’s access and guides people to reception within authorized hours. Contacts administration team for authorizing people access.
• Watching MSF premises and property’s perimeter fence through regular patrols. Remaining on duty until other watchman comes to do a handover, never leaving the post unattended.
• Organizing traffic of vehicles within the premises and directs them in and out.
• Checking that the doors and windows are locked and lights are off when people leave premises. Checking that security lights are working properly and informing line manager of any possible problems.
• Keeping area within MSF premises clean and tidy (ex. empty dustbins, sweep paths, etc.) and performs general maintenance activities of the garden (ex. cut grass, maintain flower beds, prune trees if necessary, etc.).
• Maintaining watchmen’s torch and other lighting tools, returning used batteries and keeping the necessary supply of spare batteries. Maintaining communication equipment (radio) in working conditions and providing battery availability.
• Supervising diesel/petrol tank levels and providing spare can(s) of fuel. Ensuring the correct functioning of generator and water pumps (starting, switching off, record sheet of operating hours and maintenance) as well as the correct use of extinguishers (being aware of their location.
• Informing line manager of arrival of any materials before unloading and helping MSF staff carry heavy items, if necessary.
• To handle the crowd in the container in a welcoming manner, acceptance of services we provide, good at directing people in a simple and clear way.
• To alert the team if there is a potential for conflict or control the crowd when there is a conflict inside or from outside and de-escalation when it is needed
• Inform immediately the MSF staff working on site and the line supervisor if an incident occurs, in order to organize a prompt rescue action.
• Follow the de-escalation and general security MSF guidelines.

Requirements

Education

• Literacy desirable

Experience

• None is required

Languages

• English & Kiswahili

Competences

• Results, teamwork, flexibility, commitment, stress management & service oriented.