Nurse

In terms of numbers, nurses make up one of the largest groups of profession in MSF. As an MSF nurse, you may work in a primary health care project, a malnutrition program, a vaccination campaign, or an epidemic outbreak response. Your primary responsibility will be as a manager. Your role can vary from leading an outreach team to managing a department or clinic.

Your job
most projects, the basic patient care is taken over by family members and care takers. Your main responsibility is therefore the supervision, training and coaching of your (local) team of nurses and community health workers (team size varies from around 10 to 40 nurses).

Your tasks might include:

• Conducting regular team meetings, creating a respectful work environment, strengthening interdisciplinary and interdepartmental collaboration
• Organizing monthly duty roasters
• Assessing training needs and organizing relevant trainings
• Supervising the implementation of new standards and protocols, according to the project’s objective, to ensure the quality of care
• Building up and maintaining a network of community health workers to improve access to the communities
• Supporting the HR team in the recruitment, evaluation, and development of team members
• Data collection, analysis and reporting as an intrinsic part of your role.
• Forecasting medical supply needs and managing medical stocks.