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.

Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of neutrality and impartiality.

A worldwide movement

MSF was founded in Paris, France in 1971. Its principles are described in the organisation’s founding charter. It is a non-profit, self-governed organisation.

Today, MSF is a worldwide movement of 24 associations, bound together as MSF International, based in Switzerland.

Thousands of health professionals, logistical and administrative staff – most of whom are hired locally – work on programmes in some 70 countries worldwide.

Humanitarian action

MSF’s work is based on humanitarian principles. We are committed to bringing quality medical care to people caught in crisis, regardless of race, religion or political affiliation.

MSF operates independently. We conduct our own evaluations on the ground to determine people’s needs. More than 90 per cent of our overall funding comes from millions of private sources, not governments.

MSF is neutral. We do not take sides in armed conflicts, we provide care on the basis of need, and we push for independent access to victims of conflict as required under international humanitarian law.

Bearing witness and speaking out

MSF medical teams often witness violence and neglect in the course of their work, largely in regions that receive scant international attention.

At times, MSF may speak out publicly in an effort to bring a forgotten crisis to public attention, to alert the public to abuses occurring beyond the headlines, to criticise the inadequacies of the aid system, or to challenge the diversion of humanitarian aid for political interests.

Quality medical care

MSF rejects the idea that poor people deserve third-rate medical care and strives to provide high-quality care to patients. In 1999, when MSF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the organisation announced the money would go towards raising awareness of and fighting against neglected diseases.

Through the Access Campaign, and in partnership with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, this work has helped lower the price of HIV/AIDS treatment and stimulated research and development for medicines to treat malaria and neglected diseases like sleeping sickness and kala azar.Main Purpose

Provide outpatient and/or inpatient medical care to patients/beneficiaries according to adapted and updated medical knowledge, MSF protocols, values and universal hygiene standards to improve the patients/beneficiary’s health conditions.

Job Description

Apply medical knowledge and skills to diagnose and prevention. Carry out outpatient and in patient 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, prescribing 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 standards.
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 proper functioning of the department, equipment, or material.
Ensure ongoing training of the medical/paramedical multidisciplinary team to optimize the quality of care.
Knows and ensures all MSF medical protocols are followed and implemented, checking universal precautions are always followed and reducing bio-hazard risks and improving infection control. Ensures professional confidentiality 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

Provide personal, family and community orientated comprehensive medical care to individuals. As part of the general practice team, he/she is responsible for providing patient-centered, culturally appropriate, and individual holistic care to the target population.
Follow MSF’s medical guidelines, protocols, and ethical principles in all clinical practices.
Work closely with the nursing team, the Sexual and Reproductive Health, the Mental Health, protection and the health promotion teams to provide clinical guidance, assistance education and support.
Manage emergency cases, ensuring timely stabilization and resuscitation of critically ill patients.
Ensure that patients files are completed appropriately and legibly, with good documentation of clinical findings, vital signs monitoring, investigations, referrals and treatments. Contribute to medical data collection, analysis, and reporting to support evidence-based decision-making, and maintain accurate and complete patient records, ensuring confidentiality.
Adhere to safety protocols, including IPC measures, to protect both patients and healthcare workers
Identify patients with acute surgical conditions during consultations and ward rounds, prepare those meeting criteria for surgery, and assist/perform surgical interventions when required, in collaboration with surgeon.
Escalate complex evolution with surgeon and line manager, to ensure quality care and follow up for surgical cases.
Ensure the active use of the Telemedicine service, follow up cases, update the team, to incooporate specialist recommendations in patient management.

Requirements
Education: 

Medical Doctor Diploma Essential.
Diploma in Tropical Medicine desirable.

Experience:

2-years 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,
Obstetrics – Gynaecology, paediatrics, infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS/STDs, TB, general practice, general medicine or minor surgery.

Language:

Mission language essential. Hausa language desirable and any other local language.

Knowledge:

Desirable computer literacy (word, excel and internet)
Competencies:
People Management
Commitment
Flexibility
Results
Teamwork.

Remuneration

As per MSF salary scale (National contract).

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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.

Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of neutrality and impartiality.

A worldwide movement

MSF was founded in Paris, France in 1971. Its principles are described in the organisation’s founding charter. It is a non-profit, self-governed organisation.

Today, MSF is a worldwide movement of 24 associations, bound together as MSF International, based in Switzerland.

Thousands of health professionals, logistical and administrative staff – most of whom are hired locally – work on programmes in some 70 countries worldwide.

Humanitarian action

MSF’s work is based on humanitarian principles. We are committed to bringing quality medical care to people caught in crisis, regardless of race, religion or political affiliation.

MSF operates independently. We conduct our own evaluations on the ground to determine people’s needs. More than 90 per cent of our overall funding comes from millions of private sources, not governments.

MSF is neutral. We do not take sides in armed conflicts, we provide care on the basis of need, and we push for independent access to victims of conflict as required under international humanitarian law.

Bearing witness and speaking out

MSF medical teams often witness violence and neglect in the course of their work, largely in regions that receive scant international attention.

At times, MSF may speak out publicly in an effort to bring a forgotten crisis to public attention, to alert the public to abuses occurring beyond the headlines, to criticise the inadequacies of the aid system, or to challenge the diversion of humanitarian aid for political interests.

Quality medical care

MSF rejects the idea that poor people deserve third-rate medical care and strives to provide high-quality care to patients. In 1999, when MSF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the organisation announced the money would go towards raising awareness of and fighting against neglected diseases.

Through the Access Campaign, and in partnership with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, this work has helped lower the price of HIV/AIDS treatment and stimulated research and development for medicines to treat malaria and neglected diseases like sleeping sickness and kala azar.Main Purpose

Provide outpatient and/or inpatient medical care to patients/beneficiaries according to adapted and updated medical knowledge, MSF protocols, values and universal hygiene standards to improve the pa-tients / beneficiaries’ health conditions.

Job Description

Coordinating, assessing and supervising the proper functioning of the medical activities (HIV, TB STIs, SGBV, etc.), according to MSF protocols, standards and procedures and through the correct compilation and analysis of medical data regarding patients’ health conditions.
Participating in the definition of annual planning and budget for the project and in the follow up of the programs / project. Supervising and ensuring that medical activities objectives under his/her responsibility are achieved, reporting to the technical referent any problem arising in the service
Checking all administrative procedures related to patients’ follow-up (individual card filling, registers, paper exit, discharge, transfers …) are carried out correctly and according to MSF procedures.
Ensuring an efficient pharmacy management and monitoring the rational use of them. In coordination with the project biomedical service supervising the appropriate use of medical devices and anticipating future needs. Preparing the medical orders needed to implement the medical activities under his/her responsibility, and identifying and reporting to the line manager, non-medical support needs (material, infrastructure, transport, etc.)
Coordinating and monitoring the daily working plan of the team under his/her responsibility (absent personnel, vacations, tracking leaves …). Participating in shifts and replaces a doctor, if necessary
Planning and supervising, in close coordination with the HR department, the associated processes (recruitment, training, performance evaluation, development and internal communication) of the staff under his/her responsibility in order to improve staff capabilities and to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required
Participating in the monthly reports according to guidelines (i.e. SitReps, medical statistical reports, etc.)
Ensures that newly recruited Medical Doctors are inducted into the team with provision of proper orientation on various tasks needed to empower their work in the project.
Support in collaboration with other Managers and Activity managers in the induction of other medical and paramedical staff according to the need.
Ensures that every Medical Doctor in the project under his/her supervision has a well-defined objective set and Bilan review follow-up for every Bilan Cycle.
Plan and follow-up the routine implementation of Continuous Medical Education in the project and ensure continuous participation of all medical staff to promote the technical skill within the medical team.
Ensure the planning and conduct of regular mortality analysis in participation of the medical team in the project and adapt various outlined recommendation to the medical activities to ensure a quality care provision to the patients.
Ensure the availability of updated medical protocol to the medical team and follow-up with medical/pharmacy prescription in the project in line with MSF protocol.
Participate actively in various committee meetings in the project (IPC, Blood transfusion; project management, etc) and ensure that medical recommendations made by the committees are effectively carried out by the medical team.
Perform regular medical file audits in collaboration with the Pharma and Nursing Teams to ensure that medical standards are maintained within the team.
Participate and if possible, lead the investigation of medical errors in collaboration with the Nursing Team and profer appropriate mitigation measures.
Ensure that staff Health provision is offered to all MSF staff in line with the Staff Health Policy.
In collaboration with other managers promote good health practices within the project in line with MSF recommendation.
Knowledge of other partners and their activities for purpose of appropriate referral.
Participate in the investigation of epidemic prone diseases and alerts in the context around the project site.
Actively participate in the weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, etc. sitreps and in collaboration with the Data Team, ensure the quality of medically generated data in the project.

Requirements
Education:

Medical doctor or paramedical degree. Desirable specialization or training in Tropical Medicine or related studies (for OCB OCBA, this is essential too)

Experience:

2 years’ experience minimum as a Medical Doctor/General practitioner in clinical work (consultations, admissions, ward rounds, lab tests request and results interpretation). Desirable in tropical medicine, experience in pediatrics (Triage, Resuscitation, ICU, IPD, SAM, Infectious Diseases).

Languages:

Fluent English (oral and written English), Hausa, Kanuri are Essential

Knowledge:

Essential computer literacy (word, excel)

Competencies:

People Management
Commitment
Flexibility
Results
Teamwork.

Remuneration

According to MSF salary scale plus 13th month allowance equivalent to 1 month of gross salary

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9jabook

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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.

Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of neutrality and impartiality.

A worldwide movement

MSF was founded in Paris, France in 1971. Its principles are described in the organisation’s founding charter. It is a non-profit, self-governed organisation.

Today, MSF is a worldwide movement of 24 associations, bound together as MSF International, based in Switzerland.

Thousands of health professionals, logistical and administrative staff – most of whom are hired locally – work on programmes in some 70 countries worldwide.

Humanitarian action

MSF’s work is based on humanitarian principles. We are committed to bringing quality medical care to people caught in crisis, regardless of race, religion or political affiliation.

MSF operates independently. We conduct our own evaluations on the ground to determine people’s needs. More than 90 per cent of our overall funding comes from millions of private sources, not governments.

MSF is neutral. We do not take sides in armed conflicts, we provide care on the basis of need, and we push for independent access to victims of conflict as required under international humanitarian law.

Bearing witness and speaking out

MSF medical teams often witness violence and neglect in the course of their work, largely in regions that receive scant international attention.

At times, MSF may speak out publicly in an effort to bring a forgotten crisis to public attention, to alert the public to abuses occurring beyond the headlines, to criticise the inadequacies of the aid system, or to challenge the diversion of humanitarian aid for political interests.

Quality medical care

MSF rejects the idea that poor people deserve third-rate medical care and strives to provide high-quality care to patients. In 1999, when MSF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the organisation announced the money would go towards raising awareness of and fighting against neglected diseases.

Through the Access Campaign, and in partnership with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, this work has helped lower the price of HIV/AIDS treatment and stimulated research and development for medicines to treat malaria and neglected diseases like sleeping sickness and kala azar.Main Objective and Responsibility of the Position

We are looking to fill four (4) Medical Doctor positions in our Sokoto Noma & Emergency Response Project.
Provide outpatient and/or inpatient medical care to patients/beneficiaries according to adapted and updated medical knowledge, MSF protocols, values and universal hygiene standards to improve the patients/beneficiaries health conditions.

Accountabilities

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, prescribing 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 standards.
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 proper functioning of the department, equipment or material.
Ensure ongoing training of the medical/paramedical multidisciplinary team in order to optimize the quality of care.
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 confidentiality 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

Flexibility in undertaking assigned tasks, due to the changing nature of MSF operations
Manage patients at an inpatient Therapeutic Feeding center (ITFC) in Sokoto specialist hospital in collaboration with MoH MDs, Matron, Nurses, and the MSF team.
Apply medical knowledge and skills for the prevention and treatment of complications of Severe Acute Malnutrition and Moderate Acute Malnutrition
Carry out inpatient and out-patient consultations, prescribing the necessary treatment while respecting MSF protocols and guidelines.
Ensure daily ward rounds for patient assessments and management.
Collaborate with the MoH team to achieve program objectives, ensuring 24-hour quality nutrition care for all admitted SAM patients.
Participate in nutrition assessment as required and manage patient’s nutritional and health needs.
Build the capacity of the medical team through training, on-the-job coaching, support, and supervision.
Evaluate if the meal plans have a positive effect on’ patients’ Health.
Coordinate patient referal for a specialist review and management in the Teaching Hospital, Sokoto(UDUTH) with approval from MAM/MTL
Ensure ongoing training of the medical/paramedical multidisciplinary team in rôder to optimize the quality of care.
Maintain and follow the IPC Protocols and ensure that universal precautions are followed by all medical staff.
Educates and counsels patients and families on nutritional issues, either individually or in groups.
Ensure a good working collaboration with the MoH team.
Keep the patient and/or his/her family informed about the illness and provide appropriate explantions about the treatment to follow, checking thés have understood.

Data Management:

Ensure patient data are collected and entered accurately and in a timely manner and, in collaboration with the Medical Data supervisor, ensure its completeness, and report any discrepancies to the Line manager.
Ensure timely daily, weekly, and Monthly updates on patients’ data, including mortality.
Share mortality coversheets with the data supervisor.
Participate in data presentation for the annual plan and Mid-year review.

Reporting:

Prepare Monthly medical report according to the epi calendar and submit to the MTL within the timeline.
Ensure a weekly Mortality review meetings and send mortality report to the MTL.
Ensure medical incidence reports are prepared and submitted promptly.
Daily reporting to Line manager with accurate patient statistics.

Meetings:

May represent the Project during meetings with stakeholders and other partners and send the minutes of the meeting to your line managers.
May participate in the ITFC medical meeting MSF/MoH and follow up on the action plans.
Be flexible in assigning tasks and responsibilities from the line manager.

Requirements (Qualifications / Experience / Knowledge)
To apply for this role applicants MUST meet the following criteria:
Education:

Medical Doctor (MBBS), Diploma in Tropical Medicine an added advantage

Experience:

2 – year experience minimum as a Medical Doctor or in clinical work.
Minimum one year of experience in any Nutritional Programme.
ITFC experience is an asset.

Languages:

Mission language essential. Local language is desirable.

Knowledge:

Essential computer literacy (word, excel).

Competencies:

People Management, Commitment to MSF principles. Teamwork and result oriented.

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9jabook

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