Activities
- Provide training and follow-up to improve knowledge and skills of locally hired team members
- Oversee the selection process for newly hired local team members
- Transfer of knowledge and practical skills of the team through on the job training to ensure the quality of care provided to neonates
- Manage pharmacy and medical devices
- Collect, manage, and report data; monitor project functions
- Control hospital infections
- Collaborate with the human resources department, logistics department, and finance department
- Lead diplomacy and negotiations with related organisations when required
REQUIREMENTS
- Compliance with essential requirements for all potential candidates
- RN (Div.1) status
- Minimum five years nursing (RN) experience with at least two years experience in special care nursery, newborn unit or NICU
- Experience in neonatal resuscitation
- Experience in recognition and management of common neonatal issues such as prematurity, hypoxemia, and hypothermia
- Neonatal nurse experience in identification of severe neonatal issues such as sepsis and asphyxia
- Over one year of infection control experience
- Available for assignment for a minimum of nine months or longer
- Current practising certificate and must display no recent gap in clinical experience greater than two years
- Willingness to abide by Médecins Sans Frontières medical protocols
DESIRABLE
- Additional and/or specific qualification in neonatal nursing
- Experience in additional areas – particularly NICU, PICU, obstetrics, paediatric emergency department
- Work experience or study in nutrition, tropical medicine, infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, TB), refugee health or international public health
- Senior managerial experience (e.g. clinical nurse facilitator/consultant, manager) clinical education and/or training experience