Midwife / Nurse Supervisor

Job Description

Title: Midwife / Nurse Supervisor

Company Name: Relief International

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Diploma in Midwifery or Nursing

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ The main aim of the nurse/midwife supervisor is to support the organization in scaling up health care services in the camp, ensuring the provision of comprehensive quality services in the community.
∎ Department: Health
∎ Expected Start Date: April 1, 2020.
∎ Contract length: Up to December 31, 2020.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Lead and participate in clinical quality initiatives focused on improving the patient experience, patient safety, clinical outcomes, enhancing systems to assure timeliness and efficiency and assuring quality while maintaining fiscal responsibility. Areas of responsibility include Labour and Delivery, Postpartum, Obstetric Triage, and outpatient clinical sites
∎ Promote and oversee development of critical pathways, protocols and practice guidelines that promote quality, cost-effective care for the patient population.
∎ Ensure that appropriate quality improvement standards/metrics are established, maintained, and reported and updated regularly.
∎ Establish and maintain high standards of professional practice. Oversee and drive a superior patient safety and peer review program.
∎ Establish appropriate communication channels with the community, nurses, and administration that result in trust, alignment and collaborative working relationships, making patient access to resources a high priority.
∎ Establish oneself as a credible, trusted and highly collaborative clinical leader among the medical staff, administrative leaders in the facility/ community through effective professional performance
∎ Cultivate critical relationships inside and outside the community in order to enhance clinical quality, education, leadership and commitment. It is essential that the Supervisor be visible and quickly gain credibility.
∎ Help to decrease infant mortality rates and preterm birth and take all initiatives which are necessary in case of need and carry out where necessary immediate resuscitation.
∎ Help to decrease maternal mortality rate and pregnancy related sufferings.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Only females are allowed to apply
∎ 1-2 years of experience in midwifery and Registered by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Bangladesh.
∎ Experience with other NGOs-INGOs desirable.

Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh.

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ T/A, Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
∎ Salary Review: Yearly
∎ Two festival bonuses in a year equivalent to one basic salary.
∎ Severance (8.33% of the monthly basic salary) goes with the monthly release of the salary.

Application Deadline: February 10, 2020

Company Information:
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: House: 451 , Road: 8 West, DOHS Baridhara, Dhaka-1206; Head Quarter: 5455 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1280 Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
∎ Web : www.ri.org
∎ Business : Relief International, hedquatered in USA, is a leading international non government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.

Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact.

Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International has been working in Bangladesh since 2004. The Bangladesh portfolio of Relief International has strong focus on emergency response, economic opportunity and livelihoods rebuilding, traficking in persons, sustainable tourism, human rights and protection, refugee crisis response and public health. RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar. RI currently employs over 1000 local and international staffs in Bangladesh.

Relief International is currently implementing large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID/OFDA, EU ECHO.
For more information on Relief International: www.ri.org

Category: NGO/Development