Nurse (Maternity Cover) Employment Opportunity

Job Description

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports Directly to: Head of Nurse

Reports indirectly to: Clinical lead and one clinical medical officer

Staff reporting to this post: None

Budget responsibility: N/A – Responsibility of equipment utilized in healthcare services delivery.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

1. Management of patient/client, health and illness
   • Assist clinicians, midwives, lab, vaccination, and pharmacy in running of general duties as defined per each department as per MOH/WHO guidelines.
   • Manage triage, taking vital signs, and organize patients for consultation.
   • Conduct vaccination for children and pregnant women.
   • Undertake dressing, suturing of deep wounds, etc.
   • Conduct nursing care of patients as per doctors' guidelines and instructions.
   • Ensure compliance with MoH/WHO guidelines of rational drug use.
   • In collaboration with the consulting staff (MD, midwife, and fellow nurses), provide treatment as per MOH/WHO treatment guidelines and protocols.
   • Follow disease surveillance and trends through review of weekly and monthly morbidity data generated from the clinic.
   • Work with other medical team and PHC nurses to operationalize emergency preparedness to be able to respond to any potential outbreaks.
   • Collect laboratory specimens and prepare them for tests.
   • Monitor medical consumptions and re-supply based on the data collected at the service delivery to minimize stock out of medicines.
   • Provide pre-referral and referral nursing care and ensure nursing care process is respected during referrals to secondary and tertiary level hospitals.
   • Promote health and well-being through the use of health promotion, health education, screening, and therapeutic communication skills.
   • Clearly communicate the health status of the patient using appropriate terminology, technology, and format.
   • Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualized patient care.
   • Set, practice, and maintain infection prevention control measures within his/her working environment.
   • Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records, utilizing computer or tablet systems where appropriate.
2. Professional role
   • Promote personal development and clinical excellence.
   • Drug dispensing.
   • Reporting (HMIS, monthly or quarterly drug consumption, monthly inventory report), and complete all tools of drug or medical equipment management.
   • Work with the nursing team and others in developing new roles, responding to changing healthcare needs.
   • Facilitate and participate in multi-disciplinary education like continuous medical education and clinical supervision/mentorship.
   • Maintain own professional development in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council Regulations.
   • Promote evidence-based practice with the latest research-based guidelines.
   • Monitor the effectiveness of the clinical practice through the quality assurance strategies such as the use of audit and peer review.
   • Participate in continuing professional development opportunities such as CME to ensure that up-to-date evidence-based knowledge and competence in all aspects of the role is maintained.
   • Proactively promote the role of the nursing professional within the practice, and externally to key stakeholders and other agencies.
   • Assessing, planning, implementing nursing interventions, and evaluating patient outcomes.
3. Team role
   • Support other healthcare team members and accept referrals from other team members.
   • Participate as a key member of the multi-professional team through the development of collaborative and innovative practice.
4. Organizational role
   • Complete records, audits, and reports and respond to appropriate questions and requests.
   • Support effective communication channels between the whole team and attend meetings as requested.
   • Ensure that common patient complaints might also be the catalyst for change within practice procedures.
   • In addition to the above listed responsibilities, the nurse will also be responsible for any other duty deemed necessary by the line manager.
5. Nutrition support
   • Ensure all children, pregnant, and lactating women are identified, admitted, and discharged from emergency nutrition programs as per national nutritional protocol and guidelines.
   • Establish referral mechanisms for both moderately and severely malnourished children and women.
   • Conduct health and nutrition education sessions, screening children for malnutrition, systematic treatment, supplementary, and therapeutic food distribution.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

• Accountability:
  • Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling Save the Children values.
  • Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance, and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
• Ambition:
  • Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development, and encourages their team to do the same.
  • Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.
  • Future-oriented, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
• Collaboration:
  • Builds and maintains effective relationships with their team, colleagues, members, and external partners and supporters.
  • Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength.
  • Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
• Creativity:
  • Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
  • Willing to take disciplined risks.
• Integrity:
  • Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates the highest levels of integrity.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced diploma (A1) or bachelor’s degree (A0) in General Nursing registered by the National Council of Nurses and Midwives (with VALID license).
• Significant nursing experience working in public or private health facilities.
• Experience of working in humanitarian settings is an asset.
• Having training in hygiene and tropical medicine is an asset.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Comprehensive knowledge and skills in nursing care processes.
• Excellent liaison abilities and good communication skills (French, Kirundi, and English preferred).
• Excellent knowledge of patients' rights and health professional rights.
• Knowledge of aseptic and sterilization methods.
• Strong capacity for nosocomial infection prevention.
• Organization and hygiene skills, knowledge, and behavior.
• Computer knowledge (Microsoft Office, M.S. Word, M.S. Excel).

Desirable

• Language skills in Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, English, and French.
• Experience of working in remote health centers, preferably in refugee settings.
• Excellent knowledge of patients' rights and health professional rights.

Additional Job Responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive, and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within the reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Skills Required:

• Health / Medical