Health Supervisor at Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI)

Location: Monguno, Borno

General Objective

• Under the direct supervision of the health deputy project manager, the opd supervisor provides patients management in collaboration with midwife and other team members.
• S/he follows pui protocols and standards to ensure quality and continuity of care, promotion and restoration of health of the patients and population, ensure supervision of care.

Responsabilities and Tasks
Consultation:

• Welcome patients to the facility.
• Establish personal rapport with potential and actual patients and their relatives.
• Assess urgency and make sure urgent cases are seen first.
• Assess and identify patients health needs.
• In the role of Clinician, manage the cases under his/her line of technical expertise, but also
• Provide nursing care according to the need of the patient.
• Adhere to his/her level of therapeutic standards.
• Give first aid when needed.
• Provide low-key psychological support/Basic Psychological First Aid to patients according to need.
• Provide individual and group health education to patients, when appropriate.
• Maintain patient confidentiality.
• Document collected information on health cards and other records.
• Ensure daily, weekly and monthly data collection for OPD

Team Management:

• Manage the team under his/her supervision including leaves follow-up, appraisal, and supervision on-the-job.
• Support his/her team in various data collection and collect it at the end of the day
• Propose solutions to the DPM/PM for daily challenges in partnership with the team.
• Participate actively in meetings and trainings when required.
• Perform other relevant duties as requested by supervisors

Supervision:

• Organize and supervise PHC Team.
• Supervise on-the-job nurses, nurse assistants, registrars, laboratory technician and drug dispenser and ensure the follow-up of protocols.
• Maintain a safe and clean working environment by complying with Universal standards, procedures, rules, and regulations
• Ensure coordination and continuity of care through verbal and written reports and
• Coordination with the other health staff.
• Adhere to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.

Specific Objective and Linked Activities

• Ensure staff understand duties and responsibilities in the working environment
• Ensure the quality of care provided to patients in PUI facilities.
• Provide essential preventative assistance services and follow up on identified beneficiaries with NCDs and other diseases/morbidities of Public Health relevance.
• Provide training on selected topics on Non-Communicable Diseases and other of Public Health relevance.
• Report on collected data.
• Directly report any difficulties or delays in the implementation of activities.
• The tasks and responsibilities defined in this job description are non-exhaustive and can evolve depending on the project’s needs.

Priorities of the Department:

• Ensure the quality of care provided to patients in PUI health facility
• Scale up on the primary health care facility plan should be developed according to the time frame
• Assessment on beneficiaries at risk and diagnosed individuals with communicable and non-communicable diseases, other diseases of public health relevant and treat him.
• Build the capacity of the community health workers, nurses, nurse assistants, midwives, registrar on thematic related to health
• Provide frequent feedback on health - illness patterns observed in the facility that require further assessment
• Report to line manager periodically regarding context changes that affect the modality of intervention

Mandatory Requirements/Qualifications

• Education degree: Recognized Nurse Degree (at least certificate level) with national legislation
• Work experience: 4-5 years of experience in Nursing, staff supervision and experience with NGO’s.
• Computer skills: Excellent knowledge of the MS office software including Word, Excel, Outlook.

Language skills:

• Good command in English (speaking, reading & writing),
• Fluent in local languages - Hausa, etc.

Knowledge and skills:

• Good knowledge of Communicable and Non Communicable diseases
• Good knowledge of Public Health
• Good ability for team work
• Ability to manage a fair workload including emergencies.

Other:

• Good team spirit
• Good management skills
• Good reporting skills