Nurse Aid (Teknaf Base)
Job Description
Title: Nurse Aid (Teknaf Base)
Company Name: Terre des hommes
Vacancy: 4
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf)
Employment Status: Full-time, Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Diploma in Nursing, Course in nursing or equivalent
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s):
Hospital, Nurse, Nurse Aid, Ward Boy
Job Context:
∎ About Terre des hommes:
∎ Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is the leading Swiss INGO focusing on child rights. It is active in more than 30 countries with development and emergency projects. Tdh interventions are focused on the three programs: Health, Migration and Access to Justice particularly for vulnerable children. Tdh Foundation has a transversal approach towards Child Protection programming and it cuts across all the thematic areas while also has been considered as one of the key value propositions in its business model. The Child Protection expertise within Tdh Foundation aims to develop high quality, evidence-based knowledge and know-how adapted to fragile contexts, conflict zones, and development to improve the protection of children`s rights and their right to protection from all forms of violence (art 19, 34 CRC) in collaboration with and in support of the three core programs. The Tdh Foundation global strategy 2021-2024 specifies that the will have demonstrated that rights-based participation, empowerment, and active involvement of children and communities in defining and implementing responses are essential to improve child protection.
∎ Context:
∎ Tdh is working in Bangladesh since 1974, with operations in Kurigram district, Dhaka district and Cox Bazaar district. Currently, Tdh is implementing programs on Health, Access to Justice (social cohesion and conflict resolution) and Migration, integrated by the transversal expertise WASH and Child protection. Tdh interventions in Bangladesh are both in development and emergency context.
∎ Following the massive displacement of more than 800,000 people into Bangladesh since the end of August 2017, Tdh has put in place an important emergency response plan to provide relief to the Rohingya refugees, notably on Health, WASH, Child Protection and Social cohesion. Alongside, Tdh is implementing the CLARISSA project in Dhaka slums aiming to build a strong evidence base and generate innovative solutions to the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) and will explore how to take these solutions to scale.
∎ Tdh in Bangladesh has started the process of integration of emergency and development approaches and aims to capitalize its institutional learning for further programme expansion and to create critical pathways for evidence-based advocacy.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Reception and follow up of patients :
∎ Receiving and installing the patients on their arrival in the service
∎ Informing patients of how the service functions and the modalities to be followed
∎ Helping the nurse to take and interpret vital signs (temperature, heart and respiratory rates, artery pressure, state of consciousness, weight, etc)
∎ Carrying out all care delegated by the nurse: damping down, changing urine collectors, parachecks, etc.
∎ Taking daily measures to ensure the hygiene and comfort of bed-ridden patients: washing, installation for eating meals, changing position, etc
∎ Seeing to patients’ security
∎ Helping to position patients correctly during medical acts
∎ Watching over food intake and helping during meals if necessary
∎ Watching over adequate liquid intake
∎ Referring to the nurse in the case of all abnormal changes in patients’ health status
∎ Reassuring and informing patients and the persons accompanying them throughout their hospitalisation
∎ Setting up health education sessions according to needs
∎ Supporting the reporting requiremts e.g., EPI, COVID and other infections
∎ Assist nurses in data entry of Electronic Medical Record
∎ Act as back up of nurses duty while in emergency and other changing circumstances
∎ Hygiene in the service :
∎ Ensuring adequate hygiene conditions in the patients’ environment: Follow up bed making procedures, clean beds, , clean furniture, IPD consumption tracking for drugs and consumables, etc
∎ Carrying out the sorting and correct disposal of waste
∎ Ensuring the availability of water, soap, and disinfectants for hand washing and general hygiene in the service
∎ Preparing disinfectant solutions following doses, dilution and usage conditions
∎ Cleaning and decontaminating used instruments according to the protocol in use
∎ Ensuring autoclaving of equipments and keep documentation for tracking the sterilization procedure.
∎ Setting up a laundry follow up system
∎ Supporting proposal disposal of clinical and non-clinical waste
∎ Liaison between the different services :
∎ Ensuring the transfer and transport of patients between the different services and departments
∎ Collaborating with the teams to ensure the care of patients.
∎ Transporting samples destined for the laboratory and collecting the results on a daily basis
∎ Helping the dispenser and storekeeper to keep tracking the drugs and consumables in observation and emergency room.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Essential: Bengali, Rohingya language
∎ Desirable: English
∎ Person with disability are encouraged to apply
Salary: Tk. 55400 (Monthly)
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Health Insurance
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 2 Oct 2022
Company Information:
∎ 25 Sep 2022
∎ Terre des hommes
∎ Business : Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is an International Non-Profit Private Organization operating in Bangladesh since 1974 in the fields of Child Protection, Healthcare, Nutrition, Emergency Relief, Water/Sanitation and Hygiene.
Category: NGO/Development
: Tdh is committed to Gender balance & inclusion and these will be important selection criterias. We strongly encourage applicants from the Teknaf sub-district and Cox's Bazar district.Tdh and Tdh employees are required to abide by the values and principles outlined in Tdh Global Code of Conduct and Risk Management Policies.Fully complies with Tdh's Global Code of Conduct and systematically reports any breach to the Code through the whistle-blowing procedure: raises awareness within the Foundation on abuse and violence and the rights deriving therefrom, respecting the rights and dignity of children, members of the communities and our own Staff.Commits to respecting Risk Management Policies including:Safeguarding Policies (Child Safeguarding Policy, Policy on the Protection against Sexual Exploitation and the Directive on Staff Misconduct at the Workplace), Safety and Security Policy and Anti-Fraud/Corruption and Prevention of the Financing of Criminal Activities Policies.Commits to reducing the risk of abuse and harm by developing a culture of open and informed leadership within the organization and in our work with children and the communities in which we intervene.Gender Equality & Equal OpportunityWe are committed to narrowing the gender gap in all positions. We welcome and strongly encourage qualified female professionals to apply.We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.We offer exciting and varied work, useful and meaningful, in a team that wants to make a difference for vulnerable children. Are you interested to join our committed team to face this challenge?
Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 2nd Oct 2022
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