Medical vacancies at Médecins du Monde (MdM). Médecins du Monde (MdM) is an international humanitarian organization whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations, the world over, including France. It seeks to stimulate voluntary commitment from doctors, other health care providers, and from those whose expertise in other fields is needed for its activities, to enlist all competent support required for the achievement of its projects, and to seek at all times to encourage close working relationships with populations in its care.

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Open Jobs
Mobile Clinic Medical Doctor
Sexual Reproductive Health Supervisor (Midwife Supervisor)
MHPSS Counsellor
Method of Application
Mobile Clinic Medical Doctor
Job Type Full Time
Qualification BA/BSc/HND
Location Borno
Job Field Medical / Healthcare

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Supervisor: Medical supervisor

Main Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the medical supervisor, the Mobile Clinic Medical Doctor will be responsible for the following main activities in order to ensure the quality of care in the mobile clinics:

Provision of free of charge curative health consultations
Admission, weekly medical follow-up and discharge of the malnourished children in OTP program
Collection, computerization and analysis of weekly epidemiological data
Reporting and attendance to different meetings
Tasks Description

Provision of free of charge curative health consultations
Prepare all the necessary drugs, material and equipment for mobile clinics and ensure that everything is ready before to leave MdM office
Follow the basic medical rules of hygiene when performing curative health consultations
Participate actively in triage activities before to start curative health consultations
Perform curative consultations:
Take a proper medical history including:
Reason for consultation
Duration of the illness or complaints
Main symptoms
Past medical history and treatment.
Perform a correct physical examination:
Inspection, auscultation, percussion, palpation
Systematic checking of signs of severity
Diagnose and treat the diseases according to protocols in use (i.e. clinical guidelines)
Write the most important complaints, signs, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment on the patient’s registration form.
Explain the treatment to the patient
Give individual health education related to the patient’s disease
Manage emergency cases according to MdM protocols and regulation
Fill in the registration form for each patient, according to the diagnosis of the morbidity surveillance form
Check the immunization status for all EPI targeted children and referred the unvaccinated children to the vaccinator
Investigate any information regarding unusual health events or diseases outbreak, provided through any source
Ensure patient confidentiality is respected and treat all the patients with respect and dignity
Admission, weekly medical follow-up and discharge of the malnourished children in OTP program
Ensure that all the 6-59 months children have been screened (MUAC, H/W and edemas)
Admit new cases in OTP program according to the criteria’s of national nutrition protocol and give systematic treatment for SAM cases
Ensure weekly follow up of SAM cases and adapt RUTF doses
Discharge cases according to the criteria’s of national nutrition protocol
Refer complicated SAM cases to identified Stabilization Center
Fill in the specific OTP form
Collection, computerization and analysis of weekly epidemiological data
Perform the daily data collection regarding curative consultations
Participate to the weekly computerization and analysis of the medical data
Reporting and attendance to different meetings
Prepare a weekly activities report to submit to team leader
Participate in a pro-active way to MdM internal meetings (medical, security…)
Participate to all the trainings organized by MDM
Others:

Give suggestions to improve the functioning of MDM mobile clinics
Participate to the loading and unloading of the vehicles and to the setting up of the mobile clinics
Participate to weekly physical inventory of mobile clinic pharmacy
Be flexible in performing his/her duties to ensure that beneficiaries are getting good quality services
Perform other additional duties on request of the team leader
Inform immediately the security focal point in case of any security problem in the field
Working Conditions
Because of the emergency relief nature of MDM’s work, working hours may be irregular and employees are expected to be flexible in their approach to working hours under emergency conditions.

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Sexual Reproductive Health Supervisor (Midwife Supervisor)
Job Type Full Time
Qualification BA/BSc/HND
Experience 2 years
Location Borno
Job Field Medical / Healthcare

Locations: Damboa/Maiduguri
Supervisor: Health Programme Coordinator
Line Reports: SRH Trainer/ Health Programme Coordinator

Functional Summary

As SRH Supervisor with MDM, you are responsible for implementation of both curative, preventive and referral pathway through mentorship and on job training of the midwives to ensure quality activity services is being rendered in line with project target and protocol under the supervision of the Health Program Coordinator.
Specific Duties
SRH Supervisor is responsible:

Organize referral for obstetric complications, including implementation of clinical pathway for treatment of sexual assault survivors and daily activities of SRH.
Ensure all RH activities are in line with national protocols and RH policies and guidelines are well understood by midwives;
Participate to RH sector meetings and any other relevant meeting at provincial level.
Ensure training, mentorship and capacity building of the midwives in collaboration with other trainers.
Support reproductive health interventions, including Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) and establishing integrated RH activities
Monitoring Progress of activities according to work plan, identify gaps and propose solutions.
Ensure all the midwives follow the IPC standards and international standard of infection prevention protocols.
Ensure the services are rendered according to protocols ie ANC, PNC and FP and risk factors are identified with proper referral pathway.
Ensure patient privacy and confidentiality is respected according to MDM policy.
Ensure appropriate health education is offered to clients according to service delivery.
Ensure submission of accurate data on weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.
Regularly contribute to the innovation of MdM’s Nigeria mission.
Qualifications, Desired & Preferred Characteristics
The SRH supervisor will be expected to:

Hold an associate or Bachelor's degree, preferably in midwifery field and have at least two years supervision experience.
Communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally.
Strong interpersonal and intercultural skills.
Assessment and analytical skills, especially within report writing and data collection and analysis.
Strong leadership, decision making and management skills.
Ability to work in stressful situations.
Problem solving skills.
Excellent computer proficiency including Microsoft and Excel.
Possess a valid practicing license and registered with the relevant board of council.
Previous experience with INGO will be of added value.
Fluent in English, preferably Hausa.
The SRH supervisor is expected to:

Be professional in communication and work quality.
Be organized and timely with deadlines.
Able to prioritize and be flexible.
Excellent team management skills.
Excellent organizational, training and mentorship skills in SRH related activities.
Adhere to professional practices standards.
Represent MDM in positive and professional manner in external sector meetings
Work independently as well as in a team.
Have excellent English and preferred local language.
Willingness to travel to areas outside of Maiduguri if needed.
Working Conditions

Because of the emergency relief nature of MDM’s work, working hours may be irregular and employees Will be expected to be flexible in their approach to working hours under emergency conditions.
The employee shall respect Médecins du Monde - France’s schedule and Terms and Conditions of Engagement for National Staff and is expected to be available anytime in order to answer to an emergency and be flexible and available beyond normal working hours if requested.
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MHPSS Counsellor
Job Type Full Time
Qualification BA/BSc/HND
Experience 1 - 2 years
Location Borno
Job Field Medical / Healthcare

Location: Maiduguri, Borno

Main Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Supervisor the MHPSS counsellor provides psychosocial and/or psychological interventions in an individual or group format.
The MHPSS Counsellor will liaise with the mental health team (MHPSS Supervisor and MHPSS Counsellors) on the implementation of MHPSS interventions and activities, more specifically:
Responsibilities

Deliver one-on-one (Individual) and group counselling sessions to identified clients within MdM Clinics, and in line with MdM integrated approach
Develop psychosocial activities; community mobilization, awareness raising, and any other related activity requested by MHPSS Supervisor.
Support MHPSS Supervisor in delivering training or workshops
Support in the creation of materials including publicity documents.
Engage with the community to deliver and promote MDM MHPSS project activities in the designated locations.
Assist in writing monthly, quarterly, annual reports, monitoring and evaluation activity and progress reports of project activities including monthly reporting to the MHPSS Supervisor.
Assist in the implementation of preventive MHPSS interventions at the community and PHC level.
Coordinate referrals
Tasks Description

Provide MHPSS consultations within PHC setting:
Provide individual or group consultations to beneficiaries presenting in PHC or referred and in need of MH interventions
Assist in the identification of psycho-social needs and proposition needed interventions in collaboration with the mental health team and PHC staff
Weekly reporting activities and data collection
Coordinate with MHPSS supervisor on cases requiring higher level interventions
Provide psycho-social support for mental health beneficiaries:
Work directly with MHPSS Supervisor to develop individualized treatment plans for MH beneficiaries
In coordination with community mobilizers use participatory methods to adapt activities in accordance to the needs of the different target groups (children, women etc)
Community mental health interventions:
Participate in defining effective and culturally appropriate approaches and interventions on the community level
Focus on information dissemination and collecting opinions to foster knowledge and self-care practices for communities in areas of intervention
Initiate and facilitate group interventions
Analysis, detection and reduction of risk factors influencing the mental health status at community level:
In collaboration with the mental health team, explore and detect potential risk factors influencing mental health status of the target population
Coordinate with other actors concerned to reduce and/or eliminate potential risk factors.
Others:

Any other related MDM tasks as assigned by the MHPSS Supervisor or MHPSS Coordinator
Under the guidance of MHPSS Supervisor and MHPSS Coordinator support in the collection of information related to behaviors of the community to reinforce quality of MHPSS services
Collaborate and participate, in any field survey, data collection and/or needs assessment organized by MDM in relation to MHPSS
Participation in MDM internal meetings, trainings and individual meetings with the MHPSS Supervisor or MHPSS Coordinator
The activities may change based on the changing context
To inform immediately security focal point in the case of any security problem
Eligibility Criteria
Essential:

Degree or HND in Psychology, Counselling, Social Works, Psychiatric Nursing, or related field from a recognized institution
At least 1 - 2 years of professional experiences in relevant field (clinical psychology, educational psychology, Psychiatric Nursing, or other related field)
Strong communication and facilitation skills
Experience working in humanitarian sector is an asset - specifically in MHPSS programs
Good knowledge of counseling and community mobilization methods and tools
Good spoken and written English
Good spoken and written Hausa , with at least one other local language: Kanuri and Marghi, Shuwa, Fulani,
Willingness to work long hours and weekends when necessary
Good computer skills (Microsoft word, Power Point and Excel)
Proactive and ability to work with multicultural team would be highly appreciated
Be committed to MdM’s values as an organization and motivated by its non-statutory, Not For Profit model
Desirable:

Experience in supporting medical team and community based organizations
Experience working with survivors of trauma, including GBV
Working in emergency and development project
Exposure to research
Good knowledge of Borno state


Method of Application


https://medfort.com.ng/medical-vacancies-at-medecins-du-monde-mdm/