Nurse Referral ( Cox`s Bazar and Chattogram)

Job Description

Title: Nurse Referral ( Cox`s Bazar and Chattogram)

Company Name: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Vacancy: 10

Age: Na

Job Location: Chattogram (Chattogram Sadar), Cox`s Bazar (Cox's Bazar Sadar)

Salary: Tk. 56000 (Monthly)

Experience:

Published: 2025-08-07

Application Deadline: 2025-08-16

Education:

Requirements:

Skills Required:

Additional Requirements:

• Essential Bachelor's in Nursing with BNMC registration with training in a Government Hospital.

• ALS/BLS preferrable.

• 2 years working experience as Nurse

• Desirable 1 years of experience in other NGO’s

• Local language essential, Chittagonian language preferred.

• English desirable

• Knowing, promoting, implementing and following up the universal hygiene standards/ precautions, bio-hazard pre-vention and infection control, security rules and other protocols and procedures in the medical premises and ensu-ring high standards of hygiene of his/her working environment. Respecting medical secrets and confidentiality at all times.

• Organizing and carrying out care and treatments according to medical prescriptions, and assisting during consulta-tions, daily rounds and other medical procedures. Participating in health education of the patient (and family) when necessary.

• Identifying Sexually Gender Based Violence victims and referring them to the medical team so they can receive the necessary treatment (PEP Kit).

• Ensuring patients are properly received and installed and that those with lack of autonomy are assisted, especially regarding their feeding, personal hygiene, movements and comfort. For ER and OPD nurse, ensuring triage of pa-tients in waiting areas, wards or during emergencies, detecting the priority acute/emergency cases, carrying out first aid care and referring them to the doctor when necessary.

• Carrying out admission, monitoring and follow-up of patients (i.e. assessment, and early identification of deterioration and actively responds according to MSF standards.

• Carrying and supervising administrative procedures and documents (fill in patient’s files, forms, consumptions, sta-tistics, registers, health files, etc.), ensuring an appropriate written/oral handover, and reporting any problematic si-tuations and cases that may arise. Participating in data collection and keeping doctors/supervisors informed.

• Participating in the department-related pharmacy and medical equipment control and maintenance (quality and its functioning, storage conditions, follow-up of expired drugs inventories, stock takes of medicines and material at eve-ry team changeover ensuring no material is taken out of nursing area/wards without prior authorisation, etc.) Sen-ding medical equipment to be sterilized and retrieves it from sterilization.

• Supervising and training nurse-aids, nutritional assistants, cleaners and other related staff under his/her supervision, ensuring teamwork and adherence to all appropriate protocols and procedures.

The focus of this position is on patients that are referred to Partner Facilities:

Care and Treatment

• Receive patients referred in different sites and help them to get OPD consultation,help on admissions in desinated ward,orient patients about the facilities, services proving from the referal hospital according to MSF policy.

• Ensure that MSF referrals aptients receive necessary quality care; immediately to ensure MSF patinet seen by the referral hospital consultant,to ensure proper treatment and as well as making follow up on the patients during their stay at referral sites. RN must be present at hospital during consultatnt visit and while any surgical procedure will be performed.

• Organize pharamcy requests based on treatment sheet and collect medicines,organaised blood,medical & surgical material and authorised those as per MOU / policy

• Notify the line managers about the use of external facilities (private laboratories and pharamcies) with which MSF does not have specific MoUs, for the purpose of prior approval/accountablity.

• Provide Food cost to patient and their one attendamt ,transport fees only for host pateint as per policy.

• Follow up on quality of care and treatment of the referred patients, adequate quantity and quality of of medicines, unnecesaary and duplication of investigations, patients readmission

• Ensure that MSF as well as the referral partners follow the activities as agreed on in our MOU’s.

• IPC need to be monitored strictly.

Administration

• Complete all paper work regarding the advance money and expenses for each individual patients correctly and complete daily according policy.

• Cross check and authorized all individual medicines bills at pharmacy, investigations bills, hospital bills daily and correct with the respective facility before handing them in to the Cox’s Bazar Office.

• Hand in all filled payment overview sheets covering the advances taken to Cox’s Bazar Office, who will re check and send it to Hospital Diretor/Hospital Clinic Lead

• Documention and notify the patient arrival date and time at referral site with properly filled referral form, attendant, blood donor when required,status of patient clinical status and about appointment for follow up.

• With the support from the Hospital coordinator or Medicall coordinator, remind the management of the referral facilities of any devaition from the MoUs, (e.g. incorrect charges in the invoices, refusal of refferals,too many fruther referral despite responsibilities otulined in the MoUs) etc..

Communication/Collaboration

• Informs the line managers, Hospital coordinator or Medco of challenges that affect/prevent beneficiaries from accessing servces from identified referal facilities.

• Update the projects teams of the the changes in the admission and exclusion criteria ,holidays or orhers issues of different referal facilities, to avoid sending patinets from one facility to another.

• Works in close collaboration with the other referral nurses.

• Ensure close collaboration with the medical teams ,authorities of the referral facilities.

• Responsible for the management of the assigned caregivers, quality of care and their time sheets, in the respective sites when needed.

• Ensure close collaboration with functional & hierarchical supervisors in CXB & Kutupalong,wekly and monthly report any observations or behavior not in line with MSF protocol, those that contravene our MOUs with respective referral facilities.

• Weekly and monthly reporting of patinets data (Log Book,Referral part-2),regulary attend in the metting.

• Ensure close collaboration with the focal point in Cox’s Bazar Office, and ask for technical support when needed on site.

• Notify the reception and discharge of our patients to KTP PSI.

Permanent Contract. Salary according to level Five (5) of the internal MSF salary grid (BDT 56000). Salary is not negotiable. Income tax deduction from salary based on current income tax rule. 2 annual leave days per month worked. Medical insurance for employee and direct dependents based on Health Care Policy- Locally Recruited Staff.

There is no provisions for relocation. 2 Festival Bonuses after completion of one year of uninterrupted continuous service.

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