2 New Various Jobs at MSF Tanzania February 2025

ACCOUNTABILITIES
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Apply medical knowledge and skills to diagnose and prevention. Carry
out outpatient and inpatient consultations, prescribing the necessary
treatment respecting MSF protocols.
· Keep the patient and/or his/her
family informed about the illness and provide appropriate explanations
about the treatment to follow, checking they have understood.
·
Follow up the evolution of the hospitalized/IDP patients, through daily
visits , consultations and examinations, pre-scribing the necessary
treatment following MSF protocols, deciding whether they can be
discharged or transferred to other departments – in collaboration with
other doctors- and informing their family about the patient’s evolution.

· Check and control the rational distribution of medicines and
equipment under his/her responsibility and take care the quality,
disinfection and sterilization of the medical material. Assure general
compliance with standing hygiene stan-dards.
· Participate in the
collection and analysis of epidemiological data, checking its validity
and informing the line manager or project coordinator about any problem
or complication of the patients illness, medical error and monitors the
prop-er functioning of the department, equipment or material.
· Ensure ongoing training of the medical/paramedical multidisciplinary team in order to optimize the quality of care.
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Knows and ensures all MSF medical protocols are followed and
implemented, checking universal precautions are followed at all times
and reducing bio-hazard risks and improving infection control. Ensures
professional confidentia-lity is respected.
· Manage the team under
his/her direct responsibility according to MSF HR policies and
procedures, supervising their performance, organizing and scheduling
shifts and rotations, directly participating in emergencies and on calls
if necessary.

MSF SECTION/CONTEXT SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES
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Provide clinical care to refugees and displaced populations, treating
common illnesses, acute conditions, emergencies including trauma cases
(e.g., accidents, violence-related injuries) and other urgent health
concerns, adapting to the limitations of available resources, infectious
dis-eases (e.g., malaria, respiratory infections).
· Ensures
adherence to MSF protocols, enforces universal precautions, reduces
biohazard risks, and improves infection control. Maintains strict
professional confidentiality while serving pa-tients.
· Supervising a team of Clinicians and nursing teams especially during weekend, night shift and public holiday.
·
Ensures the rational use of hospital resources, including medicines, by
following established protocols, avoiding waste, and prioritizing
treatments based on patient needs and available sup-plies.
·
Actively participates in emergency preparedness by helping develop and
implement response plans, ensuring the readiness of medical teams,
supplies, and infrastructure to handle potential crises efficiently.
·
Provides comprehensive care for survivors of sexual violence, ensuring
timely medical treat-ment, psychological support, and referral to
appropriate services, while maintaining confidentiali-ty and a
compassionate, non-judgmental approach. Participates in legal
proceedings when re-quired, ensuring accurate documentation and
testimony in support of the survivor.
· Ensures timely and accurate
incident reporting, documenting any medical, security, or ethical
issues, and following MSF protocols to ensure proper follow-up and
corrective actions are taken.
· Participates in training staff as
needed, ensuring they are equipped with the necessary skills and
knowledge to respond effectively to specific demands, including medical,
psychological, and le-gal aspects of care.

Minimum Educational Qualification:
· Bachelor degree in Medicine ( Doctor of Medicine) from an institute recognized by the relevant government body in Tanzania.
· Must be registered and allowed to practise under Medical Council of Tanganyika.

Experience:

• 2
  year experience minimum as a Medical Doctor or in clinical work (can be
  within medical training). Desirable in tropical medicine, or
  post-registration experience in Public Health , obs and gynae,
  paediatrics, A&E, infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS/STDs, TB, general
  practice, general medicine or minor surgery.

Knowledge:
· Computer literacy (word, excel and internet)
Languages: Essential mission language: English and Swahili (Kirundi and/or French will be a plus.)

Competencies
· People Management
· Commitment
· Flexibility
· Results
· Teamwork

NURSING TEAM SUPERVISOR
JOB VACANCY –- FULL TIME – 100%, FOR NATIONAL STAFF ONLY.

Nursing Team Supervisor at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) February 2025

Title: NURSING TEAM SUPERVISOR
Direct Reports: NURSING ACTIVITY MANAGER
Location: NDUTA KIBONDO

MAIN PURPOSE
ACCOUNTABILITIES
·
Carry out the functions and tasks associated to nursing i.e. perform as
a nurse or anesthetist, whenever required or needed, in order to
optimize the resources, contributing with his/her knowledge and
experience.
· Implement all the protocols and hygiene procedures,
and supervise his/her team follow the same standards, in order to
warrant the quality of the care and service in his/her speciality.
·
Organize and coordinate the activities of his/her team (week’s schedule,
annual leave, absences, etc.), evaluate their performance and define
and ensure the needs for training of staff, in order to ensure the
coverage of the human resources needs and maintain high standards of
quality.
· Carry out and/or supervise the ( decentralized) pharmacy
and medical equipment management (drugs orders, fol-low-up of the stock,
storage conditions, inventories, follow-up of expired drugs and their
destruction, drugs con-sumption, etc.)in his or her department, in order
to satisfy the needs of material with efficiency and effectiveness.
·
Ensuring that all staff using medical devices are qualified and
trained. Ensuring that cleaning and minor mainte-nance tasks are
performed according to the protocols. Reporting any malfunction to the
project biomedical service.
· Carry-out and/or coordinate
administrative (exit-paper, transfer-paper, etc.), information and data
collection (patient files, forms, statistics, etc.) tasks, and elaborate
regular reporting, in order to have updated and reliable information
about the day-to-day activity in the project, output/ outcome and
support decision-taking.
· Give feedback/ reports to medical focal point.

MSF SECTION/CONTEXT SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES
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Supervise all quality of care tasks in the department which include,
appropriate nursing care according to protocols, documentation of care
provided and quality of care assessment (Files evaluation and practical
clinical care) quarterly and bi-annually.
· Supervise, motivate, caoch and train the nurses in his/her department.
· Creation, monitor and evalution of the ojectives for the nurses.
· Monitor admission and discharge criteria in his/her department.
· Monitor morbidities trends in his/her department, analyze the situation and report the results to the supervisor
· Ensuring the flow of patients is respected and patients are admitted to the right ward.
· Daily, weekly, and monthly data are collected accurately, on time, and submitted to the data office.
IPC responsibilities
– Carry out the functions and tasks associated to infection prevention and control (IPC).
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In collaboration with each service activity manager/supervisor,
maintain and support the day-to-day implementation of infection
prevention and control practices includes standard precautions and risk
assessment in health structures in all departments including
sterilization, laundry and kitchen.
– Based on a given
patient-diagnosis, collaborates with the medical team to evaluate the
need and support for IPC implementation, if needed, for
transmission-based precautions (air, droplet and con-tact).
– In
collaboration with the service supervisor, implement transmission-based
precautions for air, droplet and contact transmissible diseases when
indicated, and monitor adherence.
– Provide regular clinical and
technical supervision, training and support to the staff on IPC related
is-sues using existing tools such as audits, checklists, or
surveillance.
– Ensure that organizational aspects in the facility
are respected (bed spacing, number of handwashing stations etc…), the
correct ‘clean and dirty flows’ inside the healthcare facility and
together with the Logistics Manager and Water and Sanitation Supervisor,
that the essential WatSan requirements are available in the health
structures.
– Improve compliance with aseptic care technique and the
correct use of antiseptics, detergent and disinfectants, through
training and audits.
– Ensure quality, correct and rational use of
IPC material and equipment and monitor consumption in-cludes cleaning
materials and equipment, PPE, etc.
– As core member of the Infection
Prevention and Control Committee, make sure the meeting is regular,
lively and pro-active, facilitating the development and following up the
Infection Prevention and Control Action Plan.
– Participate and coordinate actively in other group/ as Antimicrobial Stewardship and Quality of Care.
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Provide effective response in case of epidemics and MDRO alert/outbreak
and activation of contingen-cy plan and outbreak response committee.
– Active participation to nursing care regarding IPC aspects.
– Elaborate regular reporting, and meeting minutes to have updated and reliable information about IPC activities.
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Shares regular feedback/reports to IPC committee and concerned
Supervisors, NAM, MAM, MTL, PMR and staff as needed on positive and
points to be improved.

Minimum Educational Qualification:
· Essential: Diploma in Nursing.
· Desirable : Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Specialization or training in tropical medicine would be an asset.
· Must be registered and allowed to practise Under Tanzania Nurses and Midwives Council (TNMC).

Experience:
Essential: Working experience of at least two years in nursing activities related jobs.
Desirable: Working experience in MSF or other NGO’s in developing countries

Knowledge:
· Computer literacy (word, excel and internet)
Languages: Essential mission language: English and Swahili (Kirundi and/or French will be a plus.)

Competencies
· Results
· Teamwork
· Flexibility
· Commitment
· Stress management