Medical Nurse Supervisor, Emergency Health Unit

Emergency Response: Clinical Management (40%)

• Work with Team Leader and clinical team to conduct rapid assessments to identify medical needs and possible/appropriate interventions;
• Oversee medical activities; including ensuring consultations, treatment, referral and follow up activities follow Save the Children/World Health Organization/Ministry of Health diagnosis and treatment guidelines;
• Supervise nursing and vaccination teams to ensure the maximum use of their skills and their full and effective participation in project site and to monitor the quality of care in the clinic.
• Lead the timely collection and analysis of medical data, including preparation of medical data reporting on daily, weekly, or monthly basis – input into IMPACT system;
• Facilitate and lead weekly medical meeting with national staff sharing the overview of programme activities and receiving feedback;
• Facilitate clear communication with EHU WASH and logistic team to ensure medical activities can be supported;
• Represent Save the Children at health meetings, together with CO Health focal point, as needed;
• Regular communication with CO Health Focal point to ensure synergy and ways of working;
• Review and facilitate all referrals of patients following agreed referral protocols and ensure all referrals are documented and reported and where possible followed up;
• Input together with the Team Leader into the accurate forecasting for budget and award management;
• Ensure patients records and clinic registers are completed according to both Save the Children and Ministry of Health requirements. Ensure use of established reporting formats for data collection, analysis and report on daily & weekly activities to the clinical lead as required and to follow notifiable disease protocols as directed by the clinical lead;
• Ensure accountability activities as per protocol and beneficiary feedback;
• Contribute to donor proposals, and both donor and internal reports;
• Ensure all consultations with patients are in a dignified and appropriate manner in keeping with the standards and principles set out by SC;
• Ensure systems in place to strictly maintain patient confidentiality;
• Support the EHU Doctor with staff health requirements;

Emergency Response: Nursing Activities (40%)

• Support HR with the recruitment of nursing, midwifery, vaccination, and outreach staff, and ensure their clinical orientation and training;
• Oversee (together with WASH) the  recruitment, training, and management of outreach and health promotion team;
• Deliver and supervise the delivery of high quality nursing care and medical care in the clinic and adherence to SOPs;
• Ensure rapid nutritional screening and treatment or referral of children and mothers attending OPD;
• Training of clinical staff in the delivery of high quality patient care and management, including triage management and stabilisation of those patients requiring stabilisation and referral;
• Ensuring the safe management and delivery of oral IV and IM medication;
• Overall responsibility for patient data ensuring adherence to SC clinical  governance protocol;
• Working with pharmacist to ensure a quality medicine management system; ensuring patient safety, adherence to WHO/MOH protocol, storage, management of controlled drugs;
• Vaccination Module
  • Delivery of safe vaccination and adherence to SOP;
  • Management  of  adverse reaction;
  • Ensuring all staff have accurate case definition and access to referral pathway;
  • Co-ordination of patient referral;
  • Training of clinical staff in vaccination activities;
  • Working with WASH ensuring clean and safe vaccination area including sharp and waste disposal;
  • Assisting to prepare appropriate stocks;
  • Providing health education and to support outreach health promotion teams with or without the WASH team.
• Cholera
  • Oversee the nursing and medical activities in the cholera treatment centre or unit;
  • Overall responsible for high quality care and management of all patients receiving care in  SC, CTU, CTC, or ORP;
  • Training and management of national and locally recruited staff to ensure high quality care;
  • Accurate data collection procedures in place including, bed status and manage bed occupancy;
  • Responsibility for the accurate data collection and circulation using IMPACT;
  • Adherence to hygiene and infection control SOP in all clinical areas;
  • Working with WASH to develop and deliver training package for hygiene promoters, outreach teams and clinical staff with accurate case identification, referral and community health and hygiene promotion;
  • Oversee and facilitate the safe discharge care of patients with correct documentation, information and follow up;
  • Develop appropriate referral pathway identifying health structures and local capacity.

Emergency Preparedness (20%)

• Become familiar with the overall content, function and deployment of each module (primary health care, immunization and acute watery diarrhoea management);
• Be familiar with organograms and budgets for each scenario;
• Together with the EHU Doctor, develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for required medical activities and community outreach activities related to primary health care mobile services, immunization and management of acute watery diarrhoea;
• Identify ongoing training needs and capacity gaps of nursing, vaccination and outreach staff, provide relevant training and supervision as required;
• Lead medical team in e-prep activities, including country scenarios and preparedness plans;
• Support country teams to prepare for emergencies;
• Provide training and assistance in development of emergency preparedness plans;
• Contribute to the creation of effective project plans for the deployment & return phases.