The Nursing Team Supervisor will be part of the Emergency Surveillance team of the MSF-Spain mission. He/She will be in charge, with support from ESS and Medical Coordination, of leading all the medical aspects of rapid assessments undertaken for emergency verification in the country. Besides that, he/she will be in charge of the management of medical aspects and assets of the ESS team. Upon request, he/she may be requested to support medical management during emergency response activities.
In general, the Nursing Team Supervisor will be in charge of planning, organizing, and evaluating the activities concerning his/her field of action (Nursery, laboratory, midwifery, anesthesiology) and the team associated, according to MSF values, policies and protocols and universal health standards, in order to warrant the quality and continuity of the health care and the development of the plan of action.
• Plan and carry out, taking the lead on medical aspects, rapid assessments to be conducted in the country in response to different alerts: epidemics, displacement of population, malnutrition and other emergencies
• Whenever requested, supporting emergency response actions by carrying out the tasks associated to his/her speciality and/or taking the leadership of the nursing team in charge of the medical response.
• Carry out the functions and tasks associated to his/her speciality, i.e. perform as a nurse, midwife, labtech and 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.
• When requested, carry out and/or supervise the ( decentralized) pharmacy and medical equipment management (drugs orders, follow-up of the stock, storage conditions, inventories, follow-up of expired drugs and their destruction, drugs consumption, etc.) in his or her department, in order to satisfy the needs of material with efficiency and effectiveness.
• Carry-out and/or coordinate administrative, information and data collection tasks, and elaborate regular reporting, in order to have updated and reliable information about epidemiological surveillance and the day-to-day activity in the project.
Give feedback/ reports to medical focal point.