Emergency SRH Nurse
Job By: Marie Stopes International Ethiopia
Source: Ethio Jobs
Job Overview
- Job Title: Emergency SRH Nurse
- Location: Kelwan Hospital, Gulina/Galikoma & Yallo/Gubidar, Afar
- Experience Level: Mid level (2-4 years)
- Number of Position: 03
- Employment Type: Contract
- Salary: As per MSI Ethiopia Reproductive Choice Salary Scale
- Deadline Date: March 2, 2023
Job Description
JOB SUMMARY
Under the general supervision of the MSIE Area Programs Manager, the job holder performs nursing duties, mobilization activities, ensuring efficient delivery and client care in accordance with accepted standard medical practice and professional codes of conduct.
Key Responsibilities
General
- Provides nursing services, within defined scope of practice, to clients based on client’s assessment and care planning procedures.
- Performs SRH interventions such as client counseling, family planning service provision, comprehensive abortion care, taking vital signs, applying aseptic techniques, ensuring infection control
- Administers medication and observes and documents therapeutic effects
- Provides pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care
- Monitors Clients’ progress, evaluate effectiveness of SRH interventions and consults with appropriate members of outreach team
- Provides reproductive health/family planning education to individuals and the communities.
- Plan implement and document demand creation activities.
IDP Clinical Nurse Role
- Organize and conduct demand creation at IDP communities
- Closely work with stake holders at IDP intervention areas
- Provides family planning counseling services to make clients to make informed voluntary decision on their contraceptive choice.
- Provides counselling on preventing unwanted pregnancies, correct use of pregnancy termination procedures.
- Prepares all surgical instruments, sets and medical supplies required for operation in accordance with accepted standards,
- Cleans and sterilizes the operating room and instruments.
- Carries messages, reports, requisitions, and specimens between departments
Related Duties/Tasks
- Plan and conduct community engagement activities for the SRH uptake
- Made and set up referral linkages for GBV survivors
- Ensures the maintenance of high-level standards and applies universal precautions to prevent infection (e.g., Hepatitis, HIV/AIDS) from blood or other body fluids of Clients
- Accounts for all assets under his/her custody during regular stock taking and audit as and when required.
- Prepares and submits periodic reports as required.
- Participate in demand creation activity
- Made close follow up for post procedure clients
- Maintain inventory of supplies; accounts for all assets under his/her custody during regular stock taking and audit as and when required.
- Handling client’s belongingness properly
- Performs related tasks as required
Job Requirements
Qualification and Experience:
- BSc/Diploma in Nursing
- Two Years’ experience for BSC nurse and four years for Diploma nurse.
Skills, Attitudes and Attributes
- Good Communication and Interpersonal skills
- Conscious of Government, MSI and MSIE regulations
- Counseling skill and ability to provide FP and SA services
- Good knowledge of the area and the culture
- Ability to work under insecure and stressful situation
How to Apply
Interested and qualified applicants should mail only their motivation letter and C.V, within ten (10) days from the date of this announcement to: Talent Acquisition and Development Department, MSI Ethiopia Reproductive Choices through the following e-mail address: HumanResource@mariestopes.org.et
Due to the volume of applications, we will only contact shortlisted candidates, and we are unable to provide any feedback on unsuccessful applications.
Please mention the title of the position and workplace you applied for on the subject line of your email.
CANDIDATES WHO DO NOT FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
MSI ETHIOPIA REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES STRONGLY ENCOURAGE FEMALE CANDIDATES TO APPLY!
