Head Nurse – IPD

MAIN OBJECTIVE OF POSITION

Main purpose:

Plan, organize, and evaluate the activities in the Surgical IPD and the team associated, according to MSF values, the hospital 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.

Accountabilities:

• Carry out the functions and tasks associated in the Surgical IPD 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 the Surgical IPD.
• 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 Surgical IPD 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 the department, in order to satisfy the needs of material with efficiency and effectiveness.
• Carry-out and/or coordinate administrative (admission-paper, discharge-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 Nursing Director.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

Education

• Registered Nurse.
• Advanced Diploma in nursing would be an asset.

Experience                                                                                       

• At least 2 years of Hospital nursing experience.
• Experience in a management position is an asset.

Languages

• Fluent in English and Arabic is mandatory

Knowledge

• Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)

APPLICATION PROCESS

Send to the MSF e-mail msfocb-barelias-admin@brussels.msf.org your motivation letter with updated CV, highlighting in the subject the post you are applying to. Example: “Name Surname – Head Nurse – IPD” 

Or

You can put your motivation letter with updated CV to MSF Bar Elias project CV Box highlighting in the envelope the post you are applying to. Example: “Name Surname – Head Nurse – IPD”. The CV Box is located at: 
MSF Bar Elias Hospital 
Old municipality building at Bar Elias center
Next to the PHC Bar Elias, Bekaa

** Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted **

DEADLINE: Completed applications must be received by: Monday, June 4th  2018