Medecins Sans Frontieres –
Switzerland, Dadaab Programme
Various Vacancies
Based in Dagahaley Refugee Camp
Project Summary:
Health
services include curative, preventative, nutritional activities and emergency
preparedness and intervention with partners.
Package:
Attractive salary package on offer with additional benefits including
comprehensive health cover. Supportive learning environment within a large,
dynamic International Medical Humanitarian Organization with dedicated career
paths for staff.
Contract
duration: 6 months fixed term contract with possibility of extension based on
performance.
Nurses
Main tasks:
- Help to organize and carry out patient care and treatment according to Doctors’ and or medical assistants’ prescriptions and MSF guidelines
- Participate in surveillance of patients regarding alimentation, hydration, elimination and general health status
- Be proactive in identification of emergency situations.
Requirements:
- Nurses with diploma/degree recognised by the government.
- Must be a registered community nurse
- 2 year experience working in a busy hospital setup
- MSF experience an added advantage
Clinical Officer
Main Tasks:
- Carry out medical and surgical activities
- Ensure the quality of medical activities and hygiene are maintained
- Ensuring efficient use of resources and medical equipment utilization.
Requirements:
- Clinical officers with diploma/degree from recognized institutions
- Registration with the clinical officers board is a must
- 2 year experience working in a busy hospital setup as a clinical officers
- MSF experience an advantage
- Paramedic Team Supervisors
Main Tasks:
- Supervision of qualified and auxiliary nurses
- Assess and ensure quality care is given to all patients
- Ensure all administrative tasks regarding patients are completed correctly
Requirements:
- Nurses with diploma/degree from recognized institutions.
- Must be a registered community nurse
- 2 years managerial experience working in a busy hospital setup
- MSF experience an added advantage
Pharmacist
Main Tasks:
- Management of drugs and medical material
- Management in stock pharmacy
- Monitor prescriptions to ensure appropriate to diagnosis, consistent with relevant protocols, accurately and legible.
Requirements:
- Pharmacists with diploma/degree from recognized institutions.
- Must be a registered with the poisons board
- 2 years managerial experience working in a busy hospital setup
- MSF experience an added advantage
Director of Nursing
Main Tasks:
- Coordination of care and all nursing activities
- Human resource management of paramedical staff
- Work with the technical referents (expatriate staff) to ensure that the hospital is running well, and also to ensure that all necessary reporting is complete
Requirements:
- Nurses with diploma/degree from recognized institutions.
- Must be a registered community nurse
- 2-5 years managerial experience working in a busy hospital setup
- MSF experience an added advantage
- Due to the nature of the work, person with the right to work in Kenya and with ability to speak Somali will be highly advantaged.
If you meet
the above requirements, please send your CV, motivation letter outlining HOW
you fulfill each of the requirements in bullet points, copies of
certificates/diplomas and current registration documents on or before 2nd
September, 2013, to msfchkenya@gmail.com or by
mentioning on the envelope the position applied for to:
The Medical
Coordinator
MSF-Switzerland,
Kenya Mission
P.O. Box
25091 – 00603
Lavington,
Nairobi
or
Deliver the
application to:
Deputy
Field Coordinator
MSF Office
- Dagahaley Refugee Camp
Only
short-listed candidates will be contacted.