Inpatient Head – Career Opportunity

Job Summary

Working with and reporting to the MCH Specialty Centre Manager, the MCH Specialty Centre Inpatient Head plans, organizes, directs, controls and coordinates the activities of the MCH Centre inpatient services and ensures the effective and efficient delivery of clinical MCH services, ensures that the Inpatient section has all the required supplies.

Responsibilities

Strategy and Planning

• Participates actively in MCH Specialty Centre management team and facilitates quarterly performance reviews of service uptake;
• Contributes to annual business plans and facilitate the business planning process (service target setting and activity planning in MCH Centre);
• Participates in MCH services annual targets setting and when approved, ensures the implementation of targets;
• Prepares and submits work plan and budget for Inpatient services.

Team Leadership

• Provides overall leadership and direction to the Inpatient staff in ensuring the achievement of MSI Ethiopia’s mission and strategic objectives as well as targets of the centre;
• Coordinates the Inpatient unit (delivery, OR, Bed service, 2nd trimester) and organizes, deploys and supervises the Inpatient staff in accordance with MSIE personnel policies;
• Sets up effective communication system within the Inpatient staff and other units of the MCH Speciality centre, technical and operational teams;
• Establishes the priorities and focuses of the Inpatient services under the MCH centre and ensures proper alignment with overall priorities of the MCH centre;
• Coaches and provides expertise in developing strong technical skill amongst the team;
• Monitors and tracks MCH services provided by the Inpatient staff and control the quality;
• Ensures that Inpatient staff are motivated in their service provision;
• Ensures all human resource issues for the Inpatient staff in handling according to the MSIE procedures;
• Assesses training needs and arranges training in consultation with the MCH Centre Manger in building the capacity of Inpatient staff regularly;
• Conducts performance appraisals for the Inpatient staff.

MCH Services

• Ensures the maintenance of efficient delivery of client care and the confidentiality of all cases, in accordance with accepted standard medical practices and professional code of conduct;
• Performs nursing duties, as required, including providing MCH services and disseminating health education/information at Inpatient unit;
• Facilitates subsidized/free services for eligible clients, as per the organization's standing regulations;
• Ensures clients' cards and medical records are properly filled in making that it is readily retrievable for reference and inspection;
• Prepares and submits both quantitative and qualitative reports of Inpatient services periodically.
• Make an on-time report for the clinical incident happened in the center as per the guideline of MSIE.
• Collaborates in the evaluation of clinical programmes and research undertaking and the subsequent application of research findings.

Resource Management

• Ensures Inpatient level acquisition of medical supplies for their proper receipt, storage, safe keep, issuance/dispensary and regular replenishment by pre-establishing re-order level and reconciliation;
• Assists in the reviews of MCH centre service charges;
• Performs other administrative duties essential for the day-to-day running of the MCH centre;
• Identifies, proposes and when approved implements improved MCH service management system designed for the enhancement of client load, the provision of quality of care and the sustainability of the programme;
• Undertakes any other relevant duties that may be assigned to you by the MCH centre manager.

Qualification

• BSc Midwifery/BSc in Nursing
• Four years hands on experience

Skills, Attitudes and Attributes

• Good appreciation of the issues of provision of reproductive health care services;
• Understanding major policies/issues of government health policies, regional policies
• Strong technical skill in customer services;
• Ability to proceed on own initiative using independent judgement within MSIE Authority delegation;
• Good facilitation, presentation, team building, and coordination skills;
• Strong personal commitment to the goals of MSI and to put it into practice;
• Good interpersonal/communication (both oral & written) and time management skills

Skills Required:

• Health / Medical