Midwife Supervisor at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

MIDWIFE SUPERVISOR
Midwife Supervisor at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) July 2024
JOB VACANCY –- FULL TIME – 100%
Médecins
Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical
humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected
by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from
healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective
of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. MSF is therefore
guided by the principles of neutrality and impartiality. These
principles must apply to all MSF staff.

Title: MIDWIFE SUPERVISOR
Direct Reports: Midwife Activity Manager/Medical Activity Manager or PMR
Location: Liwale, Lindi Region
MAIN PURPOSE
Supervising
the clinical activities and guaranteeing the quality of midwifery care
in the department, according to MSF protocols, values and universal
hygiene standards in order to provide a high quality Mother and Child
Health (MCH) care to the population.

ACCOUNTABILITIES
•
Supervising, supporting and evaluating the team under his/her
responsibility particularly midwives, midwife assistants and other
related staff in her team such as cleaners. Planning and organizing
their work (areas, days, absences, visits, holidays, etc) and coaching
them in their work with special focus in following all appropriate
protocols and procedures
• Ensuring teamwork and a professional relationship between maternity and other departments.
•
Supervising the clinical activities in all the maternity departments
and activities such as ante-natal consultations, delivery and after
delivery follow up, post-natal consultations, family planning
consultations, new-born vaccinations and liaising with the Medical
Doctor about the patients who need special care times, visiting hours,
etc.
• Ensuring that the staff on duty knows, implements, and always
follows the universal hygiene standards/ precautions, bio-hazard
prevention and infection control in the medical premises ensuring high
standards of hygiene in the working environment.
• Ensuring that all
staff using medical devices are qualified and trained, cleaning and
minor maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols,
reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.
• Being
responsible for the department-related pharmacy activities (stock and
consumption monitoring) as well as maintenance of the medical equipment
•
Being responsible for ensuring that all the administrative procedures,
patients’ data and documents are filled in correctly and registered for
compiling monthly reports reflecting the activity in the department.
•
In certain contexts, being responsible for ensuring that the maternity
staff is able to identify, receive and provide care to the victims of
the SGBV in collaboration with the Obs Gyne MD and following the
protocols.

Liwale Specific Accountabilities
•
Planning, organizing and supervising activities in maternity to ensure
that staff adhere to implemented guidelines, protocols, and SoPs for
patient care.
• Involve in patients file review, data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Assessing maternity team to identify training needs and plan trainings with Midwife activity manager (MWAM) accordingly.
•
Supervising the appropriate distribution of drugs and other medical
materials, involving in inventory and orders, keeping track of
consumption patterns to ensure there is always a minimum level of stock
to carry out the activities of maternity department.
• Strict follow up on patients and participates actively in ward rounds with doctors or gynaecologist.
• Reports to MWAM any patient safety incident and involve in in-depth analysis of all incidents.
• Responsible for arranging induction and orientation session for new staff assigned to maternity in collaboration with MWAM.
Visit peripheral facilities for supervision when needed.

Minimum Educational Qualification:

• Diploma of Midwife (or any Diploma recognized in the country and /or the Ministry of Health to practice as such)

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Experience:

• Minimum 2 years experience as Midwife

Knowledge:

• Essential computer literacy (word, excel, internet)

Languages:
English and Swahili

Competencies:
• Results and Quality Orientation L2
• Teamwork and Cooperation L2
• Behavioural Flexibility L2
• Commitment to MSF Principles L2
• Stress Management L3

Women, people living with disability or any persons feeling like being part of a minority is encouraged to apply.

APPLICATION DETAILS
All
interested candidates shall submit their motivation letter, CV and copy
of relevant professional certificates not later than Tuesday, July 30th 2024 at 5:00 PM .
Please quote on the email subject “Liwale_Midwife Supervisor YOUR NAME
”. Emails with a different subject line may not be sorted correctly and
therefore not received. Only candidates who have been short-listed will
be contacted.

Please send your application to the email address MSFCH-Tanzania-Recruitment@geneva.msf.org
The
applications can also be submitted at MSF offices situated at Victoria,
Uporoto Street, House No 22, Ursino Estate Dar es Salaam or in Nduta
Refugees Camp, Kibondo District or MSF Guest House Kibondo or at MSF
office situated in Liwale, Lindi.

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people part of the recruitment process have access to your data. MSF
does not sell your data under any circumstances. If you have any
questions or requests, you can contact msfch-tanzania-hrmanager@geneva.msf.org
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