Job Openings at Medecins du Monde (MdM)

Main Responsibilities
Under the supervision of Medical Supervisor, the Medical Doctor will be responsible for the following main activities in order to ensure the quality of care in the mobile clinics:

• Provision of free of charge curative health consultations
• Admission, weekly medical follow-up and discharge of the malnourished children in OTP program
• Collection, computerization and analysis of weekly epidemiological data
• Reporting and attendance to different meetings

Tasks Description
Provision of free of charge curative health consultations:

• Prepare all the necessary drugs, material and equipment for mobile clinics and ensure that everything is ready before to leave MdM office
• Follow the basic medical rules of hygiene when performing curative health consultations
• Participate actively in triage activities before to start curative health consultations. Perform curative consultations:

Take a proper medical history including:

• Reason for consultation
• Duration of the illness or complaints
• Main symptoms
• Past medical history and treatment.
• Perform a correct physical examination:
• Inspection, auscultation, percussion, palpation
• Systematic checking of signs of severity
• Diagnose and treat the diseases according to protocols in use (i.e. clinical guidelines)
• Write the most important complaints, signs, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment on the patient’s registration form.
• Explain the treatment to the patient
• Give individual health education related to the patient’s disease
• Manage emergency cases according to MdM protocols and regulation
• Fill in the registration form for each patient, according to the diagnosis of the morbidity surveillance form
• Check the immunization status for all EPI targeted children and referred the unvaccinated children to the vaccinator
• Investigate any information regarding unusual health events or diseases outbreak, provided through any source
• Ensure patient confidentiality is respected and treat all the patients with respect and dignity
• Admission, weekly medical follow-up and discharge of the malnourished children in OTP program:
• Ensure that all the 6-59 months children have been screened (MUAC, H/W and edemas)
• Admit new cases in OTP program according to the criteria’s of national nutrition protocol and give systematic treatment for SAM cases
• Ensure weekly follow up of SAM cases and adapt RUTF doses
• Discharge cases according to the criteria’s of national nutrition protocol
• Refer complicated SAM cases to identified Stabilization Center
• Fill in the specific OTP form
• Collection, computerization and analysis of weekly epidemiological data:
• Perform the daily data collection regarding curative consultations
• Participate to the weekly computerization and analysis of the medical data
• Reporting and attendance to different meetings:
• Prepare a weekly activities report to submit to team leader
• Participate in a pro-active way to MdM internal meetings (medical, security…)
• Participate to all the trainings organized by MDM

Others:

• Give suggestions to improve the functioning of MDM mobile clinics
• Participate to the loading and unloading of the vehicles and to the setting up of the mobile clinics
• Participate to weekly physical inventory of mobile clinic pharmacy
• Be flexible in performing his/her duties to ensure that beneficiaries are getting good quality services
• Perform other additional duties on request of the team leader
• Inform immediately the security focal point in case of any security problem in the field.

Requirements

• Qualified and registered National Medical Doctor from a recognized university with a valid practicing license from Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN).

Work experience:

• At least 2 years of progressive work experience with similar role as a Mobile clinic physician.
• Demonstrated understanding of the INGO systems and structure.
• Previous work with humanitarian organizations is added plus.

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Job Summary
Under the supervision of the Health Program Manager, the Medical Supervisor will be responsible for the following main activities:

• Supervise the day-to-day activities of one of MDMs field clinics
• Act as focal point for the clinic in the field
• Providing technical and operational support to mobile clinic staff and/or OTP staff
• Management and leadership of Clinic team
• Collection and analysis of health & pharmaceutical data
• Supporting the development of coherent project implementation strategy
• Reporting and attendance to different meetings.
• Manage Community Health Workers.
• Liaise with medical trainers to ensure the delivery of quality SRH, CMAM, PHC services to the target population.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical support to mobile clinic staff
• Train MC staff on medical protocols including hygiene protocols
• Ensure use and respect of medical protocols through observation and supervision of medical and paramedic’s staff
• Implement regular on-the-job trainings and supportive supervision according to a weekly/monthly schedule
• Train and supervise CHW working in mobile clinic areas
• Establish mechanisms of providing regular weekly/monthly feedback on statistics and health activities to Clinic Staff
• Plan and implement thematic capacity building or specific trainings according to the identified needs for MC staff and/or OTP staff.
• Participate in establishing/improving referral system
• Supervise drugs stock management in mobile clinics and OTP
• Work in close collaboration with the MDM medical trainers to ensure comprehensive on-the-job training for each of the specialities: SRH, PHC, EPI, Nutrition, LAB,
• Oversee and support the implementation of best practices introduced by trainers and HPC
• Operational Management of Clinic team
• Act as focal point for liaison with community leaders and representatives in clinic area of operation
• Lead on coordination with other actors, including UN, INGO and GoN, in clinic area of operation
• Provide regular, timely updates to Health Programme 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
• Collection and analysis of health & pharmaceutical data
• Ensure the implementation of data collection protocols, working closely with the database officer and HPC
• Ensure accurate collection of MC/OTP data.
• Monitor the drugs consumption by establishing/maintaining mechanisms of consumption record and inform the Health Program Coordinator and Pharmacist in case of any unusual consumption, or stock shortages
• Identify and rectify gaps or weaknesses in medical activities by using monitoring and supervision tools
• Ensure rapid communication of suspect communicable disease to 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.
• Assist in the implementation of the project activities in collaboration with MdM coordination team
• Assist MdM Health Program Coordinator and MdM medical coordinator in preparing data collection tools as well as medical and paramedics protocols
• Reporting and attendance to different meetings
• Prepare a weekly activities report to submit to the head medical supervisor
• Compile epidemiological reports for inclusion in medical reports or any other relevant reports
• Support the pharmacist to compile drug consumption report per month.
• Participate in a pro-active way to MdM internal meetings (medical, security).

Qualifications

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery (MBBS / MBChB) with 3-6 years work experience.

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Main Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Medical Doctor Supervisor, the EPI Nurse will be responsible for the following main activities in order to ensure the quality of care in the mobile clinics:

• Realization of the patients triage and taking vital signs
• Realization of paramedics acts including vaccination
• Implementation of health education sessions
• Collection, computerization and analysis of weekly epidemiological data
• Reporting and attendance to different meetings

Tasks Description

• Preparation of the medical site
• Install the furniture and the material before the start of each mobile clinic
• Prepare all the necessary drugs, material and equipment for mobile clinics and ensure that everything is ready before starting the activities
• Realization of the patients triage and taking vital signs
• Prepare all the necessary drugs, material and equipment for mobile clinics and ensure that everything is ready before to leave MdM office
• Keep always the nurse tools clean and organized
• Do the triage of the patients with the medical doctors and give an MDM number to the patients needing a medical consultation
• Take weight, temperature and BP for all the patients who have been registered
• Give deworming drugs to all the targeted children according to the protocol
• Ensure patient confidentiality is respected and treat all the patients with respect and dignity
• Identify medical emergencies and refer them immediately to the medical doctor
• Realization of paramedics acts including vaccination
• Follow the basic medical rules of hygiene when performing paramedics acts
• Realize malaria rapid diagnostic tests according to necessity and/or prescription
• Urine dipstick tests to the patients according to necessity and/or prescription
• Haemoglobin test according to prescription
• Make dressings according to MdM protocols
• Do injections according to necessity and/or prescription
• Ensure the cleaning and sterilisation of dressing material on a daily basis
• Check the immunization status of the children and proceed to proper immunization of targeted children according to EPI calendar
• Evaluate the right quantity of vaccines and consumables per day
• Health Education Sessions

Others:

• Give suggestions to improve the functioning of MDM mobile clinics
• Participate to the loading and unloading of the vehicles and to the setting up of the mobile clinics
• Participate to weekly physical inventory of mobile clinic pharmacy
• Be flexible in performing his/her duties to ensure that beneficiaries are getting good quality services
• Perform other additional duties on request of the team leader
• Inform immediately the security focal point in case of any security problem in the field

Profile

• Education (Essential): Diploma / Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
• Experience: 2 years
• Confidentiality, Team Player, ability to work with little or no supervision, people management, Report Writing
• Additional Skills: Ability to work in low resource field environments.
• Language Skills: Fluent in English (Speaking, Reading, Writing), Kanuri and Hausa are added advantage
• Personal Skills: Ability to work under tight deadline steam-work, negotiation skils and flexible working hours.