Nurse (for Afghan female only)

Job Description

General Duties:

Clinic Service delivery

- Provide direct clinical care, working closely with the IRC midwife and in close relation with other members of the FSP centre to ensure the delivery of high quality comprehensive primary healthcare services. - Triage, screening, and assessment of patients - Provision of outpatient treatment, ensuring medications are given to patients as stated in the Afghan Medical Protocols of Treatment of Common Diseases. - 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. - Ensure that the FSP centre is stocked with minimum essential equipment and supplies.

Specific duties

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 the Midwife and basic and confidential information to other FSP centre staff, 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 if any attached to the FSP Center to provide health promotion, community mobilization and awareness raising. - Ensure regular inventory and consumption tracking of medical drugs and supplies. - Work with Midwife and with other 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, other 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 at the FSP center 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

Qualification and Requirements:

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

Job Requirements

- At least 2 years clinical nursing experience in primary health care - 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.

Key Qualifications

- 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