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MOBILE HEALTH TEAM ACTIVITY MANAGER – MHT AM

Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organization. Our teams are committed to supporting civilians’ victims of marginalization and exclusion, or hit by natural disasters, wars and economic collapses, by answering their fundamental needs. Our aim is to provide emergency relief to uprooted people in order to help them recover their dignity and regain self-sufficiency.

The association leads, on average, 190 projects each year in the following sectors of intervention: food security, health, nutrition, construction and rehabilitation of infrastructures, water, sanitation, hygiene and economic recovery. PUI is providing assistance to around 5 million people in 21 countries – in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe and France.

PUI has started implementing operations in East of Libya since 2017. To date, PUI’s interventions is focusing on health care through the deployment of Mobile Health Teams (MHT), which deliver direct services to internal displaced populations and their host communities, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the eastern cities of the country. Thus, PUI enhances access to primary health care services via the provision of comprehensive primary health care package free of charge including a range of curative and preventive medical services. This consists on general practitioners consultations on both common communicable and non-communicable diseases, adequate treatment provision, sexual and reproductive health services, integrated management of Childhood Illness, psychosocial support interventions including individual consultations and group sessions. Furthermore, PUI is reinforcing sensitization, communication and prevention on health and hygiene related topics within the abovementioned communities.

Under the supervision of the Health Program Manager (HPM) and in collaboration with deputy field coordinator programs (DFCP) and the Medical Coordinator (MedCo), the Mobile Health Clinic Team Manager (MHT AM) Supervises the implementation of the Mobile Health Teams’ activities in target areas. The MHT AM is the responsible of the accomplishment of the predefined objectives, the quality of the interventions and the implementation of the PUI and other Universal (WHO, MSF, ICRC) protocols.

Human Resources: Supervises the mobile health Teams falling under his/her responsibility.

Logistics and Administration: Ensures compliance of activities falling under his/her responsibility with logistical and administrative procedures.

Representation: represents the association before partners, authorities and local actors involved in the implementation of medical programs.

Safety: contributes to efforts aimed at ensuring compliance with safety rules at the site, and transmits all information relating to safety concerns to his/her immediate supervisor.

Strategy: contributes to the development of new interventions on the basis of identified needs.

·      Oversees and ensures the quality of the technical activities of PUI’s MHTs in the areas of intervention, under the supervision of the HPM and MedCo. He/she must guarantee the appropriateness of all clinical activities in the MHTs and their respect for the health policy and framework of operations of PUI.

·      Ensures the proper functioning of MHT activities falling under his/her responsibility, and ensures compliance with goals defined in the project proposal/s. Notably, signals on a timely manner any difficulties encountered in activity implementation, and proposes improvements on an as needs basis.

·      In collaboration with the HPM and the MedCo, Ensures that proper clinical protocols are implemented in the MHTs according to international and national recommendations and guidelines.

·      Ensures, in collaboration with the MHT team leaders, that patient care is optimal, and ensures that patients have appropriate management plans.

·      Ensures follow-up of epidemiological data recorded in the MHTs, in collaboration with the MedCo and the HPM. The records should respect confidentiality rules. In case of any trends or tendencies suspecting any outbreaks or unusual morbidities, this should be reported immediately to the HPM and Medco, measure should be taken for investigation and notification.

·      Undertakes MHT needs assessments in relation to medical equipment, medications and medical consumables, in collaboration with the MHT leaders.

·      Ensures the implementation of MHT monitoring and evaluations tools and procedures, according to the defined needs of the project/s, and under the supervision of the HPM. Undertakes data analyses in collaboration with the MEAL department, and transmits the analysed data to the HPM and the MedCo. Depending on the needs of the projects and/or the data collected, produces and disseminates reports of the monitoring and evaluation exercises to the relevant people.

·      Ensures proper archiving of all the documents, in collaboration with the MEAL department and the MHT team leaders, produced in the context of the MHTs, and ensures the availability of the verification sources mentioned in the proposals.

·      Supervises the referral process from the MHTs to relevant facilities. In the case of issues with the referral mechanism, is to report problems directly to the HPM, and assists HPM and MedCo in solving these problems as directed.

·      Makes sure that the team leaders are providing their weekly activity reports that he is analysing and giving feedback on. He/she is responsible of preparing the data, the analysis and the narrative parts for the regular reports to be submitted in time to the coordination. The HPM is the final responsible of this reporting mechanism but the activity manager is responsible of the medical part of the activities, the indicator follow up and the data analysis.

·      Under the supervision of the MedCo and HPM, oversees the technical components of the rapid response mechanism in relation to health staff, medicines and medical supplies that fall under his/her responsibility. Makes sure that the contingency stock is separated, monitored and protected, that the emergency response team is trained and ready to be deployed in case of need. These activities should be part of a coordinated response plan with other stakeholders, the MHT AM is also responsible for the communication when the technical inputs are required.