Nurse Supervisor

Supervise health nurse teams, provide training and technical support.

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Overview

Supervise health nurse teams, provide training and technical support.

You have:

  • Licensed Nurse with Bachelor of Nursing or diploma of nursing
  • At least 3 years of experience working with UN/INGO/LNGOs
  • Experience and skills in managing, supervision and capacity building to health staffs
  • Good communication skills
  • Good written and verbal Myanmar and English skills (local ethnic language skill is favorable)
  • Basic computer literacy
  • Ability to work under stressful conditions
  • Have ability to travel extensively to program implementing hard to reach areas

Work Arrangement:

Job Description

Scope of work: The Nurse Supervisor will provide technical support and competency based supportive supervision to partner(s) health nurse staffs which include both mobile and static team. In additional to this, Nurse Supervisor will also assist to Health Manager and Capacity Building Team for partner(s) health staffs’ capacity development plan. S/ He will ensure that partner(s) health nurses are provided clinic care in accordance with standard protocols and guidelines. S/ He will also assist in monitoring and evaluation of project quality under the direct supervision of Health Manager.

Main Responsibilities:

I. Program Implementation, Supervision & Development

- Provide clinic technical and capacity building to partner(s) health nurse staffs in accordance with standard protocols and guideline. - Conduct regular competency based supportive supervision and technical support to partner(s) mobile/ static clinic nurse staffs. - Organize and provide regular on the job training to partner(s) health nurse staffs based on the result of competency based supportive supervision check list. - Assist Health Manager and Capacity Building Team to identify essential technical capacity building plan for partner(s) health nurse staffs. - Assist Health Manager and partner in drug stock management.

II. Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting

- Participate in program monitoring and evaluation. - Participate in partner(s) mobile and static mobile clinic monthly work plan. - Monthly program narrative report to Health Manager.

III. Other

- Coordinate with program support teams to implement project activities in time. - Assist Health Manager to provide procurement documents in advance as needed. - In collaboration with other members of the health project team, participate in the design and implementation of formative assessments and baseline studies. - Assist Health Manager for establishing diseases surveillance system and outbreak response as needed. - Remain flexible to perform other duties as required or requested.

Qualifications

Position Requirements:

- Licensed Nurse with Bachelor of Nursing or diploma of nursing - At least 3 years of experience working with UN/INGO/LNGOs - Experience and skills in managing, supervision and capacity building to health staffs - Good communication skills - Good written and verbal Myanmar and English skills (local ethnic language skill is favorable) - Basic computer literacy - Ability to work under stressful conditions - Have ability to travel extensively to program implementing hard to reach areas

Myanmar nationals with relevant skills sets and proven experience of working at international level are strongly encouraged.

The IRC Core Values and Commitments. The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons. IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff are suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy. Level of interaction with children: Frequent direct contact with children. IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback. IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.

Potential interview questions

Can you describe a situation where you provided training to a nurse staff? The interviewer wants to assess your experience in capacity building and your teaching skills. Share a specific example where you trained a nurse and the impact it had on their performance.
How do you approach situations when a team member is underperforming? This question evaluates your management and supervisory skills. Pro members can see the explanation.
What systems do you use to evaluate the effectiveness of a health program? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
Describe your experience working in challenging environments or areas that are hard to reach. Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
How do you ensure effective communication within a diverse team? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
Added 1 year ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: rescue.org