Nigerian Red Cross Society Community Health Nurse Jobs
Nigerian Red Cross Society Community Health Nurse Jobs
Job SummaryCommunity Health Nurse will assist the individual, family and community in attaining their highest level of holistic health.
He/She will provide and promote healthy lifestyle choices through education, public awareness and community outreach activities to refugees and the host community.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Work collaboratively with PHC personnel to provide patient care, patient advocacy and planning of care
Identification of outreach sites and referral of clients for continuity of care and other health services
Conduct planning, execution and monitoring of community engagement and outreach activities.
Ensure the involvement and active participation of persons of concerns and host community through a range of community-level activities.
Schedule weekly meetings with all outreach teams to address gaps identified, verifying records for service data, referrals, and inputting data into approved service tools.
In collaboration with other Protection staff, ensure that regular assessment is conducted to ascertain community view of protection activities and how best to ensure that the condition of women, girls and children are improved at the community level.
Actively participate in planning and facilitation of feedback, learning and consultation meetings or sessions with target population and communities.
Support documentation of best practices and lessons learnt
Compile and submit weekly progress reports to the line manager.
Carry out any other task as assigned by the line manager.
Core Clinical duties
Record medical history and symptoms
Collaborate with team to plan patient care
Monitor patient health and record signs
Administer medication and treatments
Educate patient about management of Illnesses
Examining and monitoring of Pregnant women (Pre-natal, delivery of new born and post-natal care).
Helping patient to cope with Miscarriage, Termination, still birth and neonatal death.
Responsible for HIV counseling and Referral of Patients.
Handle all malnutrition cases and make referral when necessary
Responsible for Family planning counseling and make referral when make necessary.
Observe and manage all SGBV cases and make referral when necessary
Serve as Refugee focal person in the PHC
Undertake any other responsibility as designated by PO, PM, NRCS Management
Qualifications / Experience
Must be a
Registered Nurse or Midwife
Ability and willingness to stay at the LGA is required
Demonstrate knowledge and experience of working in a PHC setting
Demonstrate experience in management and supervision of outreach services
Demonstrate experience working in a multi-cultural/religious setting.
Must possess a minimum of 2-3 years’ experience in a community-based setting
Knowledge, Skills & Attributes
Ability and willingness to stay at the project sites is required
Ability to respect and maintain medical secrets and confidentiality at all times
Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions like long distance walking to distribution sites.
High level of integrity
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Excellent written and oral proficiency in the local language.
Excellent Advocacy skills
In-depth Knowledge of MNCH
Technical knowledge of reproductive health and modern contraceptive methods.
Excellent report writing
Coordination and team-building skills
Strong interpersonal communication and collaboration skills
Ability to multitask and work with minimal supervision
Excellent MS Office skills (including Word, Excel, Power-point etc.)
How to Apply
Interested candidates should email their Applications to recruitment@redcrossnigeria.org with the Position applied for as the subject of the mail and candidates full name as the title of attachment.
Note
Only qualified candidates will be contacted.
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