Job Vacancies At Médecins Sans Frontières

Job Description

• Provide quality medical care for emergency obstetric and neonatal cases in the maternity and VVF cases in the wards in accordance to MSF protocols;
• Assist the midwives to triage and manage patients presenting with high risk conditions related to pregnancy;
• Be involved in all surgical procedures and post-operative surgical care, in accordance with MSF protocols
• Provide consultations for post-natal patients and MSF staff as required;
• Observe and respect the MSF Charter and adhere to work schedule as per roster and on-call requirements;
• Treat the patient with respect, providing good quality care and ensuring privacy and confidentiality.

Required Skills and Conditions

• Nigerian Medical Diploma with minimum of 2 years of active clinical experience since graduation;
• Interest and/or experience in obstetrics;
• Strong work ethic, commitment to humanitarian objectives and patient care;
• Motivation, flexibility and capacity to work as a team and in emergency program;
• Fluent in spoken and written English and Hausa (preferably).

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To be able to cover some Human Resources gaps (annual leave, maternity leave, sick leave, etc.) or to response effectively to an eventual increase of the activity, MSF wants to constitute a pool of medical daily workers that can be called at any time in case of need.

For this reason, MSF is presently seeking applicants for the above positions:

Qualifications/Requirements

• Essential technical diploma in Nursing and Midwifery as the case may be.
• Essential working experience of at least one year in relevant jobs
• English both in spoken and written
• Hausa (spoken) added advantage

Work Location

• Jahun Hospital, Jigawa State (Nigeria)

Contract

• Unlimited contract duration starting in March 2015.
• 208 working hours per month.  Roster flexibility required.