OPD – Healthcare Trainer at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

OPD – Healthcare Trainer

OPD – Healthcare Trainer at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) July 2024

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: OPD – Healthcare Trainer
Direct Reports: OPD clinical mentor
Location: Liwale, Lindi Region

MAIN PURPOSE
The
main objective of the OPD Healthcare Trainer is to ensure the
facilitation, mentoring and implementation of the MSF Academy OPD
learning activities in the selected MSF projects in the country
according to MSF’s protocols, standards and procedures to ensure the
delivery of quality medical care for patients and their communities and
to improve the health condition of the population. The
OPD Healthcare Trainer prepares, organizes and delivers learning
activities in the clinical areas and trains the learners in the MSF
projects as part of a continuing education process. The OPD Healthcare
trainer will also be required to propose adaptations to the training
content, to deliver and evaluate it, as well as to assess the
acquisition of skills by the learners..

ACCOUNTABILITIES
•
Implements on the long-term clinical mentoring activities and tools,
monitors MSF Academy OPD Learning activities in the projects, according
to MSF protocols, standards and procedures.
• Participates in the Training of clinical Facilitators (TOF) and Training of clinical Mentors (TOM) as part of their induction
•
Provides active clinical mentorship to the assigned learners by
facilitating mentoring sessions and providing side-by-side teaching to
the learners based on the training objectives, the specific trainee
needs and the material provided by MSF Academy, with largest percentage
of time in the Health Centers, coaching and training at the bedside
•
Monitors closely the progress of the learners, provides regular
feedback to the OPD Clinical Mentor and OPD Referent. Performs
assessment of learners using competency gap assessment
• Regularly
visits the OPDs and attends relevant meetings to collaborate with
projects in implementing best practices taught in the curriculum
•
Plans learning sessions, support the project in allocating learning time
and collaborate with Clinical Mentor to update and share the chronogram

• Keeps the database up to date, ensures proper storage of
confidential learning documents and reports according to pedagogical
manager instructions
• Carries out supply management on the project
(orders, follow-up of the stock, storage conditions, inventories,
consumption, security of the stock, etc.) for the training activities
•
The MSF Academy for Healthcare aims to professionalize the training of
health care workers in MSF projects. The need to improve the
competencies of the staff carrying out ambulatory consultations was
identified in the countries where MSF works as one of the main factors
that can bring improvements to the quality of the care provided.
•
The Outpatient Care Programme was developed to deliver the adequate
training content for improving the quality of outpatient care
consultations, but also to pilot this through innovative pedagogical
approaches to the frontline health workers in the primary level of care.
•
The curriculum is competency based and has been developed following the
syndromic approach adopted by WHO for primary care services which is
also in line with MSF and most of the National Guidelines. The training
includes didactic classroom sessions and bedside mentoring.
• Until
beginning of 2023 the OPD programme has been implemented in 4 countries,
7 MSF projects and 22 Health Centers with 237 learners and 129
graduates. Tanzania will be the 5th country in which the programme will
be roled out.
• Liwale is located in the southern region of Lindi,
bordering with Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado. The recent conflict in that
neighbouring region has increased the humanitarian needs in Liwale where
access to health care is not yet equitable, and quality health services
are not yet provided in every ward. For this reason, MSF-OCG has
launched this project by the end of 3rd quarter of 2022 to contribute to
reducing morbidity and mortality among children under five and pregnant
women in Liwale District – Lindi Region.

• The activities are focused on 7 MSF supported health facilities:
Ø
3 health centres (Liwale A, Kibutuka and Mpengere) where Primary health
care and CEmONC activities are delivered as well as admissions for
under 5.
Ø 4 Dispensaries (Barikiwa, Kimambi, Lilombe and Mlembwe)
in primary health care, BEmONC activities for pregnant women and under
5.
• The main objective is improving access to free and quality primary and secondary health care services.
• The OPD Learning Programme is foreseen to be implemented at all the health structures.

Minimum Educational Qualification:
· Professional diploma in Clinical medicine (MD)
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Asset
· Training of Trainer or any other pedagogy or education certificate/diploma is an asset
· Any additional medical specialization is an asset

Experience:
· Five years’ experience as healthcare profession (if possible, in different services)

Knowledge:
Essential computer literacy (word, excel, internet)

Languages:
English and Swahili

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