Accountabilities:
- Supervising, supporting and evaluating the team under his/her responsibility particularly female doctos, midwives, community midwifes 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 team work 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
Context Specific Accountabilities:
- MCH supervisor is responsible for overall supervision of mother and child health activities in the MHTs as well as in the fix HFs and hospitals.
- MCH supervisor will ensure quality of the services through her regular field visits and giving feedback to field staff and reporting to her line manager.
- She is responsible to supervise the planned HIVA activities in the selected HFs, promoting institutional deliveries in those health facilities, and providing training to midwives to improve the quality of care for RMNCH services.
- She will assist in the design of curriculum and implementation of trainings for midwives and other staffs related to SRH activities (i.e MHT MD etc.)
- She is also responsible for crosschecking RMNCH data at Health facilities level to ensure consistency and accuracy.
- She will ensure that the SRH medical protocols and MoPH policies are respected by medical staff in their daily procedures in OPD (ANC, PNC etc.) and IPD .
- During the visit, she will ensure that infection prevention is respected in daily practice for the MCH units.
- She will make sure that the patients files linked to SRH are properly filled.
- To do continue need assessment either for the equipments/tools or for the capacity building of the staff.
- She will do follow up of planned trainings for SRH staff (midwife, doctors etc.).
- She will support the staff with provision of on-the-job trainings on SRH
- She will make sure that MAGNA provided kits and equipments are properly used and maintained.
- She will provide support to HR and program team during the recruitment process of female staff (questions for the test, interview attendance etc.)
- She will provide support in the SRH data collection tools designing and the good reporting towards SRH indicators.
- In partnership with the HMIS, she will ensure the accuracy of data with direct monitoring and supervision.
- In partnership with the HMIS, she will do follow up of data collection and archiving original copies of the reports on both HF and office level.
- She will make sure herself on the daily use of data collection’s tools and their proper filling.
- She will make sure that the collected data after its analysis, showed on the charts monthly wise. Recommendations for improvement will be provided.
- She will make sure that MCH reports are receiving timely to HMIS team
- MHC supervisor will do regular field supervision and monitoring visits to ensure quality in all the (Kunduz) if security allows.
- She will update her line manager with the field visit reports and action plans.
- MCH supervisor will identify challenges in the quality of implementation then she will do their follow up with line manager and relevant project team.
- MCH supervisor will make sure a good coordination between the HF staff for the better quality of the services.
- She will timely share information and/or feedback either verbally or written with the relevant team then she will do their regular follow up.
- She will make a good communication link between the HF and MAGNA management team (PM, pharmacy, field supervisors etc.).
- MCH supervisor will organize regular SRH staff meetings for sharing the feedback and attending their routine meetings.
- She will share HFs needs with the relevant managers.
- She will Supervise and strengthen referral systems for obstetric and neonatal emergencies.
- She will Support and participate in maternal and neonatal death reviews.
- She will Ensure lessons learned are documented and corrective actions followed up.
- She will Support health education and awareness activities targeting women and families
- She will Ensure compliance with MAGNA’s safeguarding, PSEA, and code of conduct policies
- She will Report any safeguarding concerns through appropriate channels.
- She will Analyze MCH/SRH data to identify trends, gaps, and priorities.
She Represent MAGNA in MCH/SRH-related coordination meetings at district/provincial level (if needed)
Education:
MD degree: specialization degree in Gyn/Obs is preferred.
Experience/Requirements:
At least 3 years of experience in BPHS/EPHS particularly in MNCH section.
Strong knowledge/familiarity in the eastern region.
Experience in the provision of training.
Good knowledge of MNCH standards
Strong capacity of supervision, monitoring, communication and reporting.
Excellent knowledge of Pashto and Dari
Good knowledge of English for the reporting purpose.
Rigorous, Autonomous, Adaptable and Polyvalent.
Interested and Qualified applicants can send their application and CV to the following email:
No other type of submission will be accepted.
Regarding MAGNA recruitment process, please note that!
· Recruitment is subject to project approval.
· MAGNA will conduct its recruitment on the basis of need only.
· MAGNA commits to a fair and transparent recruitment procedure.
· Only HR department will contact you during the recruitment process.
· MAGNA may keep data of your application for its pool of candidate and might propose to you another position than the one you applied for based on your qualification.
Only short-listed candidates whose application responds to the criteria will be contacted & local applicants from the same province are encouraged to apply and will be given priority.
MAGNA is a medical humanitarian organization that has been actively working worldwide and providing humanitarian aid for more than 20 years. Now our projects cover about 15 countries. The largest programs are deployed in Congo (DR), Syria, South Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine. We implement our humanitarian aid projects by working directly with the medical institutions and supporting doctors provided direct emergency medical care to patients who need it.
MAGNA operates internationally and provides assistance to children and their families in need, including victims of natural disasters, wars and conflicts. In the field we maintain doctors and medical staff but also technical and other specialists, providing humanitarian assistance and help to treat children and their families.
MAGNA focusing on Health, Nutrition and MHPSS projects, primarily aimed at saving lives and alleviating the suffering of those in need. Armed conflicts and unstable political situations have a devastating impact on ordinary people. Consequences, often associated with inadequate local health services, commonly include direct violence, forced displacement, epidemics, famine, and psychological trauma. Providing medical assistance to victims of conflicts and crises is MAGNA workers’ top priority. Alleviating suffering from infectious diseases neglected by local structures is another major area of MAGNA’s focus