Objectives: Ensure the access to healthcare for the project beneficiaries while guaranteeing high standards of support from the beginning to the end of the treatment.

Responsibility 1: Contribute to the smooth running of the beneficiaries’ integration into the project.

Activities 1.1: Evaluate the medical conditions of the new beneficiaries according to the admission criteria. As necessary, bring relevant cases to the Project Manager’s attention and call upon the medical committee to make appropriate decisions. Register the new patients with accurate data collection and record.

Activities 1.2: Coordinate with the partners when needed, before and/or at the time of the referral. In case of reject, provide the partner and the beneficiaries with full information about the reasons and other existing options.

Activities 1.3: Work as part of a team while collaborating with the Social Care Facilitators for a comprehensive approach. Participate in the daily morning reports and share relevant information with the whole team.

Activities 1.4: Provide regular health system (public and private) analysis and suggest appropriate project’s orientations regarding the context evolution. Take part in healthcare facilities assessments (at capital, province or country level) that will be used to adapt CDE activities. Identify new potential partners according to the needs.

Responsibility 2: Ensure the implementation of the medical treatment for the project beneficiaries.

Activities 2.1: Take all necessary appointments (OPD and IPD) in liaison with the FMIC. Organize the surgeries’ monthly planning in accordance with budget availability (in close coordination with the Project Manager), the beneficiaries’ medical conditions, the CDE missions, the FMIC doctors’ recommendations, and the waiting list. Anticipate and adapt the activities’ planning in accordance with the Public Holidays or any special event.

Activities 2.2: Bring the CDE missions’ needs to the Project Manager’s attention for further planning. Monitor the beneficiaries’ medical conditions with the Nurse team and report immediately to the Project Manager in case of critical conditions, ICU admission need, or decease.

Activities 2.3: Participate in meetings with partners for MoU renewal (cases review, admission criteria explanation…) and support the partner as primary contact. Communicate as much as needed to ensure continuity in the beneficiary’s treatment.

Activities 2.4: Guide the beneficiaries during their treatment and explain them each step. Adapt the initial plan in case they cannot attend, in coordination with the FMIC doctor.

Activities 2.5: Keep good record of the beneficiaries’ data in the hard files and the databases while respecting strict confidentiality principle. Monitor closely the archiving system (hard and soft). Report accurate data for donors’ monitoring systems and audit.

Responsibility 3: Ensure the Nurses team management.

Activities 3.1: Take part in the recruitment processes, conduct appraisals, organize the monthly duty roster, identify gaps and training needs… Raise any issue to the Project Manager.

Activities 3.2: Control the files filling and archiving (hard and soft) to maintain accurate data reporting, especially during the project manager absence.

Activities 3.3: Conduct daily short meetings as for the Nurses day and night shift handover.

Activities 3.4: Assign specific targets for each Nurse as focal point for the pathologies (cardiac, orthopaedic, gynaecology, ophthalmology, reconstructive, neurosurgery…). Develop appropriate action plans and follow-up measures.

The responsibilities and activities of the Nurse Supervisor as described above are not exhaustive and might progress according to the project needs.