Nurse in Charge

Job Description

Title: Nurse in Charge

Company Name: Friendship

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

Published: 2025-12-23

Application Deadline: 2025-12-29

Education:

Requirements:

Skills Required:

Additional Requirements:

Responsibilities & Context:

Responsible for:

Clinical Care and Service Delivery

• Oversee and ensure quality nursing care for obstetric and newborn patients, including all emergency cases

• Ensure proper triage, admission, monitoring, referral, and discharge of patients

• Supervise nursing care during normal delivery, assisted delivery, caesarean section, and post-operative care

• Ensure compliance with national and organizational CEmONC protocols (PPH, eclampsia, sepsis, obstructed labor, neonatal resuscitation, etc.)

• Ensure strict infection prevention and control (IPC) practices in labor room, OT, wards, and newborn care units

Leadership and Supervision

• Supervise all nursing staff and ward support staff under nursing services

• Prepare and manage duty rosters ensuring adequate coverage for all service areas

• Provide on-the-job coaching, mentoring, and performance feedback to nursing staff

• Support the orientation and capacity building of newly recruited nursing staff

Coordination and Teamwork

• Coordinate with pharmacy, laboratory, blood bank, sterilization unit, and support services

• Act as the focal person for nursing-related communication with facility management

Documentation and Reporting

• Ensure accurate, complete, and timely nursing documentation and patient records

• Review and validate nursing notes, medication charts, and shift handover reports

• Compile and submit daily, weekly, and monthly nursing service reports

Stock and Equipment Management

• Oversee stock management of nursing supplies, medicines, and consumables

• Ensure proper storage, usage, and documentation of drugs and supplies

• Report stock shortages, expiries, and equipment malfunctions promptly

Quality Improvement and Compliance

• Ensure compliance with SOPs, clinical guidelines, and donor or organizational requirements

• Support internal and external audits, assessments, and supervision visits

Training and Capacity Building

• Identify training needs of nursing staff and support capacity-building initiatives

• Participate in drills, simulations, and refresher trainings related to CEmONC services

Other Responsibilities

• Provide counseling and health education to patients and attendants on postnatal care, newborn care, family planning, and danger signs

• Perform any other relevant duties assigned by the supervisor or senior management

Skill and Competencies:

Education and Experience:

• BSc in Nursing with valid BNMC registration

• Minimum 3–5 years of clinical nursing experience, preferably in maternity, OT, or emergency care

• Prior experience in CEmONC/EmONC or maternity hospital setting is highly desirable

• Experience working with NGOs or in humanitarian or remote settings is an added advantage

• Working experience in hard to reach areas for marginalized communities will add value.

• Willingness to work in remote settings.

 Read Before Apply

Please note that applications via any other method will not be considered.

“FRIENDSHIP is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults, and employees, Donors, visiting Doctors, visiting Journalists, visitors, beneficiaries including communities where we work and volunteers/interns. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with, has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation - regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure fully include background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding. 

FRIENDSHIP is an equal opportunity employer and will do everything possible to ensure that those who are suitable to work within our values and beliefs are recruited to work for us. Any personal persuasion will result in a disqualification of candidature”.

Photograph must be enclosed with the resume.