Somalia: Auxilliary Nurse

The Auxilliary Nurse will take up the following responsibilities:

• Assist the Doctor and Nurses during consultations.
• Conduct duties like dressing of wounds and helping the midwives during delivery.
• Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition.
• Identify and manage as appropriate treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition.
• Prioritize health problem and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion IRC strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care.
• Deliver opportunistic health promotion using opportunities such as new-patient medicals.
• Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side effects and interactions.
• Assess and care for patients presenting with uncomplicated wounds.
• Support and advise women requesting information relating to family planning needs.
• Support and manage health needs of women presenting for cervical cytology consultation.
• Implement and participate in vaccination and immunization programmers for both adults and children.
• Carry out additional duties as may be required.

Required Qualifications

• Diploma in provision of basic nursing services from a recognized institution. Relevant regular trainings from a credible health organization.
• Minimum of two years of relevant experience in health program set up.
• Willing to travel and live in difficult and remote areas.

Required Competencies

• A mature person of high professional discipline and moral integrity.
• Knowledge of local Somali language
• Previous experience within a humanitarian aid organization, in particular working in primary health care programs and conducting nursing.
• Strong counselling skills.
• Good Organizational skills.
• Competent to work under stress as the situation may dictate.
• Ability to work with displaced communities with diverse cultural and ethnic background.

Full description of this position and application details can be viewed through our website:
http://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj04/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=IRC&cws=1&rid=12209

Somali Nationals are encouraged to apply.

International Allowances are not available for this position.