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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare.
Experience
Location Jigawa
Main Purpose
- Following a multidisciplinary team approach, the physiotherapist designs and delivers comprehensive, patient-centred preventive and rehabilitative interventions by assessing patients’ condition and exposure to risk factors, aiming to maintain and/or improve their physical well-being, for optimal autonomy and participation in all life dimensions.
Accountabilities
- Assess the obstetric patient’s physical condition and capacity, ensuring the use of the physio form to gather the subjective history and physical findings, set up the treatment objectives and plan, based on clinical reasoning and the relevant MDT clinical records.
- Elaborate and implement patient-centred physiotherapy interventions applied to the context of ob-stetric fistulas and other obstetric complications, including the critically ill patient, by delivering education, therapeutic exercise, manual therapy, and electrophysical agents, with particular emphasis on non-pharmacological pain management.
- Ensure that informed consent is offered to each patient before any physio intervention.
- Actively monitor and report on the delivered physiotherapy activity, by committing to timely and complete clinical records and data collection, critically analysing the data, aiming to improve the quality of the physio services.
- Ensure patient data protection and confidentiality.
- Organise and maintain the physiotherapy premises, equipment, and consumables stock.
- Report to the line manager any problem arising in the service, especially related to patient care and the loss/ robbery/damage of medical equipment or medicines, facilitating the implementation of the appropriate measures.
MSF Section / Context Specific Accountabilities
- Ensure a professional, welcoming, and compassionate atmosphere as a pillar for patient care.
- In the VVF:
- Participate in the relevant clinical rounds and meetings, fostering an MDT approach to care and facilitating the identification of patients in need of physiotherapy, in line with the referral criteria.
- Deliver physiotherapy services from Sunday to Thursday, according to the weekly activity plan.
- In the ICU:
- Ensure participation in the daily clinical rounds (Monday to Friday).
- Deliver physiotherapy services following the established referral criteria for physiotherapy.
- Ensure to work within the framework of MSF protocols, and to be equipped with information that is relevant to improving knowledge, pursuing continuous professional development.
- Communicate innovative ideas and any proposals on procedures, equipment and materials that can support and upscale the quality of the physio services
- Comply with hygiene and infection protection and control (IPC) standards, always.
- Debrief with the rehab specialist in women’s health on a bi-weekly basis, when under remote support.
Requirements
- Education Essential: Physiotherapist official degree/diploma.
- Experience: Not required (the one from the study period is considered as an experience).
- Languages: Essential: Hausa; Desirable: mission working language (English), Fulani.
- Competencies: Results, teamwork, flexibility, commitment, service.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should attach their motivation letter, CV with at least two references and academic documents/work experience certificates to msff-nigeria-recruitment@paris.msf.org using the job title as the subject of the mail.
Or
To the MSF Admin Manager at
MSFF Jahun,
Unguwar Turaki,
Along Kafin Hausa Road,
Behind Upper Sharia Court Jahun,
Jahun Local Government Area (“Application Box” outside the front gate),
Jigawa State.