•      Participating in the definition of the IPC objectives and in collaboration with the IPC committee, defining, implementing, and monitoring the IPC annual plan Based on a Stepwise Infection Prevention and Control Approach (SIPCA) assessment (together with the IPC supervisor).

•      Setting up regular monitoring mechanisms for IPC activities, analysing the results, identifying priorities and proposing solutions when necessary. Establishing, maintaining, and improving surveillance systems for health care associated infections in the facility. Participating and contributing to the elaboration of the contingency plan regarding the IPC aspects depending on context and possible scenarios.

•       In collaboration with each service activity manager, ensuring and maintaining the implementation of the standard precautions and transmission-based precautions in health structures in all departments including sterilization, laundry, kitchen, hygiene agents and providing technical supervision and expertise, support, training, and guidance to the staff on IPC related issues using existing tools such as audits, checklist, surveillance, etc. and developing training plan and materials as required.

•       Setting up mechanisms for the implementation and monitoring of the adherence to additional precautions for air, droplet and contact transmissible diseases when indicated, adapting general guidelines to the health facility realities, putting isolation algorithms in place, and ensuring adequate nosocomial outbreak detection and response.

•       Designing and ensuring the implementation of correct ‘clean and dirty flows’ inside the health facility. Ensuring that the environmental standards in the facility are respected and together with the Hospital Facilities Manager and WHS Supervisor, that the essential requirements are available in the health structures.

•       Guaranteeing compliance to aseptic care techniques and to the correct use of antiseptics, disinfectants, and detergents.

•       Monitoring and analysing the consumption and the quality of IPC materials and equipment.

•       Planning and supervising, with the support of HR department, the associated HR processes (recruitment, training/induction, evaluation, potential detection, motivation, development, and internal communication) of the staff in the project under his/her responsibility, to ensure having the appropriate team in terms of size, capabilities, and skills.

•       Reporting any irregularities to the PMR (as functional manager) in addition to NAM, MAM, supervisors… and proposes immediate actions when necessary. Producing reports with information and recommendations for the monthly medical reporting. Follows up and consolidates IPC data from different departments/units.

•       IPC standard precautions include Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), hand hygiene, prevention of accidental exposure to body fluids, safe and appropriate treatment of re-usable medical devices, waste management, cleaning and disinfection of surface and environment, respiratory hygiene and individual hygiene for staff, caretakers and patients IPC essential requirements include water supply, solid waste and waste water treatment/disposal, latrines and shower facilities, dead bodies management, vector control and medical waste management.

•      Transmission-based Precautions (TBP): are the second level of basic infection control and are to be used in addition to standard precautions for patients who may be infected or colonized with certain infectious agents for which additional precautions are needed to prevent infection transmission (contact, droplet, airborne).

context specific accountabilities

•       The project team support the paediatric department in Mazar Regional Hospital.

•      The project team is based in Mazar-i-Sharif, capital of Balkh Province.

•      The project provides support to the Paediatric Department in Mazar Regional Hospital (MRH), ER, Neonatology including NICU, PICU, with in total 209 beds. And began to support GPW, ARI and ITFC within 83 beds from November 2025.

•      The main focus is the IPC in all the services within the Paediatric department with focus in triage, ER, the complete Neonatal ward, including NICUs; and PICUs.

•      Training to the MSF and MoPH staff with focus in the team under his/her supervision will be the most important part of his/her work. In all aspects of IPC.

•      Close collaboration with MAM and NAM will be important for the improvement of the quality of care.

•      Close collaboration with MRH IPC Manager to improve IPC standard in paediatric department, involving him to take the lead in negotiations related to IPC improvement in the Department.

•      The respect of IPC measures is compulsory.

•      Using the IPC monitoring tools with correspondent update is recommended to monitor progression of achievements.

•      Support in drafting and assessing the IPC needs for the paediatric department, with trainings and recommendations according to MSF protocols and guidelines.

•      Working in collaborations with other medical managers and supervisors in improve the IPC standards.

Continuous, structured, and realistic review of IPC needs, for both material and/or human resources