Job Description

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is an International Humanitarian Organization providing medical aid to populations in distress, victims of natural and man-made disasters and victims of armed conflict, regardless of race, religion and political believes. For more information, visit our Arabic website, www.msf-me.org

Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium is looking for Yemeni nationals to recruit for the following position:

PEDIATRICIAN

Location: ATAQ PROJECT, Shabwah 
Contract duration: 6 Months (Extendable)
Contract type: Full time contract
Reporting to: Project Medical Referent

Main Purpose:

Providing outpatient and/or inpatient pediatric care to patients/beneficiaries according to adapted and updated medical knowledge, MSF protocols, values and universal hygiene standards to improve the new-born and child/beneficiaries health conditions.

Key of responsibilities:

• Applying medical knowledge and skills to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of children, ensuring integrated new-born and paediatric care through Emergency, OPD, and IPD services in New-borns and cases of malnutrition. Prescribing the necessary treatment, respecting MSF protocols.
• Collaborating closely with the different department of the hospital (e.g. Maternity), Knowing and ensuring all updated MSF medical protocols and universal precautions are followed and implemented, reducing bio-hazard risks and improving infection control.
• As an expert in paediatrics, proposing strategy (modification on current new-born and paediatric care management) and implementing them after validation of Project medical Referent and Paediatric Advisor.
• Ensuring on-going new-born and paediatric training (formal and bedside) of the medical/paramedical multidisciplinary team in order to optimize the new-born and paediatric quality of care. Reviewing and discussing selected complicated cases or mistakes and giving technical input.
• Keeping patients and their families informed of the illness and the treatment to follow, checking that they have been understood. Ensuring professional autonomy and confidentiality are respected and a good attitude and proper bedside manner towards the patient and their care takers and the rest of the medical team.
• Following up the evolution of the hospitalized/IDP patients through daily visits, consultations, and examinations, prescribing the necessary treatment following MSF protocols, deciding whether they can be discharged or transferred to other departments – in collaboration with other paediatrician, and doctors- and informing their family about the patient’s evolution.
• Monitoring the proper functioning of the department, equipment or material and addresses the list of the missing item for new-born and paediatric activities. Providing inputs about general organization of the different paediatric wards, including the admission, transfer, and discharge criteria + referral procedure from Maternity and post-delivery wards
• Checking and controlling the rational distribution of medicines and equipment under his/her responsibility and taking care the quality, disinfection, and sterilization of the medical material. Assuring general compliance with standing hygiene standards.
• Participating in the introduction / improvement of the collection and analysis of epidemiological new-born and paediatric data, checking its validity and informing the line manager or Project Medical Referent about any problems or complications of the patient’s illness and medical errors. Collecting Clinical cases for further trainings and list a series of comments to improve the current MSF protocols.
• Managing the team under his/her direct responsibility according to MSF HR policies and procedures, supervising their performance, organizing and scheduling shifts and rotations, directly participating in emergencies and on calls if necessary.
• Designing and providing training to staff as required.
• Debriefing with coordination, headquarter (including Paediatric Advisor) and providing written report on main findings, activities, conclusions and further recommendations.

MSF Ataq/Context Specific Accountabilities

• Provide clinical leadership and technical capacity building to the Pediatricians and other medical team. 
• Support and facilitate morbidity and mortality reviews with the medical teams in monthly basis with providing continues feedback to the team. 
• Ensure the rationale laboratory investigations and radiology such as CT scan, X-ray < white blood cell count, electrolyte. CRP, ERS, and others ……
• Provide consistent implementation of the agreed admission, referral, and discharged criteria for your respective departments and escalate any exceptions requests to the clinical team lead (if any), medical activity manager, referral doctor and/or Project Medical Referent respectively.
• Promote and encourage the ‘Medical Incident Reporting’ process within your respective departments, as a means for learning and further systems/training development to improve on patient safety and the clinical care activities.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILL REQUIREMENT

Education

• Medical Doctor diploma in a recognized university
• Pediatrics qualification essential

Experience:

• 2 years’ experience minimum as a Medical Doctor in paediatric hospital
• 2 years MSF experience as pediatrician, is preferable.
• Outbreak and emergency experiences is preferable

Languages:

• Fluency in English & Arabic languages is required.

How to Apply

Médecins sans Frontières – Ataq Project 

Applications must be in English language. Candidates should submit a Cover Letter and CV.

Only online Application will be accepted. Please send your application to

 MSFOCB-Ataq-jobs@brussels.msf.org

Please write in the subject of the email: “PEDIATRICIAN” 

Deadline for application: 04 March 2025

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews. No face-to-face contact or phone contact will be considered. Any documents sent to MSF-OCB (CV, cover letter, copies of diploma, recommendations letters) will not be returned by MSF-OCB.