Nurse

Job Description

Clinic Service delivery

· Provide direct clinical care, working closely with the other mobile team clinical staff to ensure the delivery of high quality comprehensive primary healthcare services.

· Triage, screening and assessment of patients (in line with COVID protocols)

· Provision of inpatient and outpatient treatment, ensuring medications are given to patients as prescribed by the Medical Doctor.

· Delivery of hygiene promotion, health education and patient/care giver counselling.

· Ensure adherence to infection prevention and control measures.

· Ensure accurate recording of information in the clinic registers, and timely completion of summary reports.

· Mobile clinic areas are appropriately stocked with essential equipment and supplies.

Staff Supervision & Development

· Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and provide guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.

· Provide nursing support and mentorship to other mobile clinic staff, providing on-the-job training where needed.

Project Management

· Plan and implement outreach activities with the rest of the team to access vulnerable clients to increase service utilization.

· Work with and support community volunteers to provide health promotion, community mobilization and awareness raising.

· Ensure regular inventory and consumption tracking of medical drugs and supplies.

· Work with relevant staff to ensure prompt requesting of medical drugs and supplies.

Coordination and Representation

- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with local communities, local government agencies and other implementing partners.

· Hold meetings with local communities and represent the program in local stakeholder meetings.

Monitoring and Reporting

· Ensure all patient consultations are documented and patient records completed.

· Submit reports in a timely manner.

Other Duties

· Ensure non-disclosure of any information whatsoever about practices and IRC activities to any other person or organization without permission, except in the normal performance of the service.

· Consistently and proactively monitor/assess the safety and security of the team; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to IRC management and liaising with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for IRC programs.

Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs.

Qualifications

· Qualified Nurse with a nursing diploma from a recognized medical university registered with local Ministry of Health

· At least 2 years clinical nursing experience in primary health care

- Previous experience and training in sexual gender-based violence and clinical care for sexual assault survivors (desirable) - Ability to lead, train, supervise and facilitate other nursing staff and community health workers in their respective tasks.

· Ability and flexibility to understand the cultural and political environment and to work well with the local health representatives.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

· Skills to provide sensitive and appropriate medical counseling.

· Must be a team player with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure in a stressful environment, displaying patience, compassion and diplomacy.

· Ability to be innovative, flexible, adaptive, and willingness to work out of hours, sometimes throughout the night.

· Ability to live in challenging conditions and ability to work under difficult, high pressure situations.

· Fluency Spoken and written English

Desired qualifications:

- FEMALE applicants are strongly encouraged to apply

- Previous work with IRC is an advantage