Medical Supervisor Jobs at Médecins du Monde (MdM)

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Under the supervision of the Health Program Coordinator, the Medical Supervisor will be responsible for the following main activities:

• Operational Management and Leadership of one of MDM field Clinics
• Supervise the day-to-day activities of one of MDMs field clinics
• Manage Community Volunteers in the field (crowd controllers, registers, community mobilisers in coordination with community mobilization supervisor)
• Provide regular, timely updates to Health Program Coordinator
• Organize the weekly schedule of the Clinic team to ensure the smooth running of the activities
• Ensure that Clinic medical and paramedics staff respect their assigned tasks
• Provide strong leadership to ensure Clinic staff understand and work according to MdM principles
• Adhere to MDM HR policies, and ensure staff under supervision do the same
• Ensure rapid communication of suspect communicable disease to HPC
• Ensure in close collaboration with MdM trainers and the community mobilisers the correct follow up and the outcomes for all patients referred
• Ensure the logistics department is immediately informed of any maintenance required in the clinic
• Ensure the notice board in the clinic has relevant information and the clinic opening hours, as well as the services provided at the clinic

Pharmacy, Data Collection and Reporting

• Oversee proper data collection, reporting and communication from daily health activities & pharmaceutical data working closely with the database officer and HPC
• Establish mechanisms of providing regular weekly/monthly feedback on statistics and health activities to Clinic Staff together with the community mobiliser supervisor
• Assist MdM Health Program Coordinator and MdM medical coordinator in preparing data collection tools as well as medical and paramedics protocols
• Compile epidemiological reports for inclusion in medical reports or any other relevant reports
• Supervise drugs stock management in mobile clinics and OTP
• Adhere to confidentiality principles for medical data collection
• Identify and rectify gaps or weaknesses in medical activities by using monitoring and supervision tools
• Prepare a weekly activities report to submit to the Health Program Coordinator

Coordination of MDM activities at the field level

• Lead on coordination with other actors, including UN, INGO and GoN, in clinic area of operation
• Act as focal point for the clinic in the field for all internal and external stakeholders, including community leaders and representatives in clinic area of operation
• Reporting and attendance to different meetings where required
• Technical Management and Support to one of MDM field Clinics
• Provide technical support to mobile clinic staff according to National and other guidelines suggested by the Health Program Coordinator and MdM trainers
• Liaise closely with Health Program Coordinator and Pharmacist to ensure pharmaceutical supplies are continuous
• Liaise with medical trainers to ensure the delivery of quality SRH, CMAM, PHC services to the target population
• supervise Community mobilisers in collaboration with the Community Outreach supervisor to ensure they are following the protocols according to the plan
• Oversee and support the implementation of best practices introduced by trainers and HPC
• Developing coherent project implementation strategy
• Assist in preparing and implementing operational action plan for MC and/or OT component in collaboration with MdM coordination team
• Participate in establishing/improving referral system

I.OTHERS:

• Establish good relationship with the different stakeholders in order to have a smooth implementation of MdM project
• Be flexible in performing his/her duties to ensure that beneficiaries are getting good quality services
• Participate in a pro-active way to MdM internal meetings (medical, security…)
• Inform immediately the security focal point in case of any security problem in the field
• Perform other additional duties on request of the Health Program Coordinator and coordination team.

Method of Application

Send CV + cover letter, by email to:

recruitment.nigeria@medecinsdumonde.net

Ensure to place “ Clinic Medical Supervisor ” in the subject line
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

Information:

• Starting date:  asap
• Place of office: Maiduguri with frequent travel to field sites
• We’ll pay attention only to the complete files in English.
• Our process of selection include some written tests and oral interviews.