Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. Médecins Sans Frontières aids populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Anaesthetist Nurse
Location: Gwoza,Borno
Job Tybe:Fixed Term Contract Starting With 6 Months /level 7)
Main Purpose:
Performing all anesthetic medical activities according to MSF policies, protocols and universal hygiene standards, in order to ensure the quality of pre, during and post-operative care of patients.
Job Description
- Performing consultations to patients due for surgery, evaluating of the risks of operating (in collaboration with the
- surgeon), obtaining patient’s written authorization for their operation, providing patients with appropriate information
- on their illness and treatments, and deciding on what type of anaesthetics to be used
- According to set procedures, carrying out all nursing anaesthetics related activities during surgery in order to
- collaborate in patient’s adequate anaesthetized state and safety during the process. Preparing the drugs, material, and equipment required for the surgery. Monitoring patients throughout the whole intervention and administering and maintaining anaesthetics following the rules of hygiene and asepsis in force.
- Providing post-operative care, including immediate post-operative surveillance in the recovery room and special patients present in the intensive care unit, in order to adapt the prescriptions, with special focus on patient’s pain relief, during the stabilization and recovery process. Does round consultations with the Surgeon Doctor once or twice a day, discussing therapeutic orientations with the department manager, renewing prescriptions and ensuring they are followed.
- Systematically evaluating patients’ pain to adapt prescriptions and/or therapies for their relief.
- Respecting, promoting and ensuring medical confidentiality and implementing and following hygiene rules, procedures and protocols at all times as well as looking after the integrity of anaesthesia material (decontamination, sterilisation, storage conditions, etc.) and other equipment, in order to ensure the safety and protection of patients and other staff.
- Knowing accidental blood exposure policy and procedure and implementing them when necessary.
- Ensuring that all staff using medical devices are qualified and trained. Ensuring cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols. Reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.
- Carrying out all pharmacy related activities (stock control, station’s re-stocking, inventories, expired drugs, etc.) and other equipment of anaesthetic ward, doing special follow-up of narcotics and sedatives (register, consumptions, empty phials, etc.), ensuring enough stock-up and the good functioning to carry-out the medical activities. Drawing up pharmacy orders according to needs.
- Collaborating with other departments and supporting other medical services in order to support the overall MSF project with his/her expertise and capabilities. Training other medical staff when applicable and working particularly in close collaboration with the accident and emergency department and midwifery and obstetrics team in the maternity department (especially to resuscitate new-borns).
- Carrying out administrative procedures and documents (fill in of patient’s files, forms, statistics, data base, etc.), in order to have updated and correct information about the day-to-day activities. In collaboration with the Surgeon Doctor, carrying out quantitative surgical-anaesthesia data collection, drawing up and sending out reports for the monthly follow up of peri-surgical mortality and for the quality of anaesthesia/pain management and informing the direct supervisor immediately in the event of medical error.
MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities
Supplies Monitoring and Control.
- Ensure proper control, consumption monitoring, and follow-up of all anaesthetic supplies in the theatre
- Frequent inventory and timely request of anaesthetic consumables to avoid ruptures or expiry of anaesthetic consumables
- Ensure good storage conditions of all Anaesthetic consumables in the theatre
Preoperative and postoperative follow-up.
- Ensure you evaluate all preoperative patients and that they are fit for any surgical procedures.
- Ensure close monitoring of patient vitals/condition and document all patients’ evaluations and condition preoperatively, during, and postoperatively.
Training/Capacity building.
- Ensure regular capacity building and on-the-job training are in place to ensure staff compliance to protocols.
- Department support.
- You are expected to provide support to other departments such as ER or wards whenever called upon or in the absence of surguries.
IPC and Quality of Care
- Ensure compliance with aseptic practice at all times while in the theatre.
- Supervise and support the sterilisation team to ensure they align with SOPs for cleaning, disinfection, and sterilisation according to MSF standard procedures
Monitoring and Reporting
- Ensure the data collection system is in place in the theatre and all procedures are updated in the theatre registers.
- Participate and support regular data collection and reporting to NTS
Requirements:
Education
• Nursing diploma with specialisation as anaesthetics nurse is essential).
Experience
• Essential 1 year of previous supervised work experience as an anaesthetist nurse
• Experience in other NGO’s and /or developing countries is desirable,
• Experience with MSF in the same field is an asset
Languages
• Mission language and local language essential
Knowledge
• Desirable basic computer skills
Competencies
• Results and Quality Orientation L2
• Teamwork and Cooperation L2
• Behavioural Flexibility L2
• Commitment to MSF Principles L2
• Stress Management L3
Contract
208 working hours per month
Remuneration
As per MSF salary scale (National contract)
Application Deadline:14th July 2026
METHOD OF APPLICATION
Interested and Qualified candidates should use link below to Apply.
NOTE
MSF is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, race, nationality, and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. We are committed to achieving a balanced gender distribution and therefore encourage women to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
MSF provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, teamwork, integrity and a healthy balance of work and life. MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment and discrimination.
Women and People with Disabilities are encouraged to Apply.
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