Midwife Supervisor - Arsal

- Starting date: February 2022
-Type of contract: Fixed Term Contract for 1 year, renewable
- Activity rate : Full time 100%
-Place of work: Bekaa - Arsal
- Salary : LBP 2,807,000

Main Purpose

Supervising the clinical activities and guaranteeing the quality of midwifery care in the department, according to MSF protocols, values and universal hygiene standards in order to provide a high-quality Mother and Child Health (MCH) care to the population.

Accountabilities

• Supervising, supporting and evaluating the team under his/her responsibility particularly midwives, midwife assistants and other related staff in her team such as cleaners. Planning and organizing their work (areas, days, absences, visits, holidays, etc) and coaching them in their work with special focus in following all appropriate protocols and procedures
• Ensuring teamwork and a professional relationship between maternity and other departments.
• Supervising the clinical activities in all the maternity departments  and activities such as ante-natal consultations, delivery and after delivery follow up, post-natal consultations, family planning consultations, new-born vaccinations and liaising with the Medical Doctor about the patients who need special care times, visiting hours, etc.
• Ensuring that the staff on duty knows, implements and follows at all times the universal hygiene standards/ precautions, bio-hazard prevention and infection control in the medical premises ensuring high standards of hygiene in the working environment
• Ensuring that all staff using medical devices are qualified and trained, cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols, reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.
• Being responsible for the department-related pharmacy activities (stock and consumption monitoring) as well as maintenance of the medical equipment
• Being responsible for ensuring that all the administrative procedures, patients’ data and documents are filled in correctly and registered for compiling monthly reports reflecting the activity in the department.
• In certain contexts, being responsible for ensuring that the maternity staff is able to identify, receive and provide care to the victims of the SGBV in collaboration with the Obs  Gyne MD and following the protocols

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities

• Organising induction trainings for new staff in the unit.
• Responsible of the Monthly Roster for the staff and management of Annual leaves.
• Monitoring the Pharmacy inventory and ordering according to the needs of the unit.
• Organising and facilitating trainings for the staff with the help of the Midwide Activity Manager.
• Performing yearly staff appraisals, setting individual objectives and assessing training and learning needs.
• Managing medical equipments in the Mother and Child Health Centre & Sexual and Reproductive Health unit and reporting to line manager any malfubctioning equipment.
• Ensuring medical data collection and proper reporting is done as per MSF standards with the support of the Midwife activity manager.
• In collaboration with Midwife activity manager, implementing and supervising the activities in the unit.
• Supporting the team in patient management when necessary.
• Be present during handover from night-shit team to day-shift team.
• Ensuring colaboration with other departments in the facility for a smoother operation.
• Organising Monthly meeting with staff to discuss issues affecting them.
• Providing monthly report for the unit.
• Providing monthly orders for stationary, hygiene materials.
• Ensuring infection prevention control and COVID-19 mitigation measures are respected by all staff and at all time.

Requirements

Education

Essential: Bachelor in Midwifery or Midwifery qualification/specialization

Essential: Ministry of public health practice license as midwife in Lebanon

Essential: Certificate of registration at the Lebanese order of Midwifes

Experience

Essential: Minimum 2 year of experience as Midwife

Languages                      

Essential: English and Arabic language

Knowledge

Essential:  Computer literacy (word, excel and internet)

Competencies

• Results and Quality Orientation
• Teamwork and Cooperation
• Behavioural Flexibility
• Commitment to MSF Principles 
• Stress Management