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
- 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 criteria for all potential international staff
- RN (Div.1) status
- Minimum five years nursing (RN) experience with at least two years experience in acute medical/surgical paediatrics
- Experience in paediatric emergency management and resuscitation
- 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 paediatric 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
Learn more
Watch our recruitment webinar to learn about MSF's approach to providing paediatric care in the contexts we work in, featuring an MSF paediatrician and MSF paediatric nurse.