Senior Nurse, Health & Nutrition, Bhasan Char, HCMP

Job Description

Title: Senior Nurse, Health & Nutrition, Bhasan Char, HCMP

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Noakhali (Hatiya)

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 1 year
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

• Diploma or BSc in Nursing from any reputed university or institute

• BNMC Registration is required

• At least 1 year
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

KNOWLEDGE:

• Sound understanding and experience of primary healthcare.

• Knowledge of Humanitarian Principles and SHPERE standards

• Knowledge of training design and execution

SKILLS:

• Good communication skills.

• Have excellent writing, reporting and analytical skills.

• Have excellent knowledge and skill in Office applications.

• Self-motivation, goal/result-orientation and team work.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) are other pre-requisites

COMPETENCIES:

• Demonstrated competency to work independently with minimum supervision.

• Demonstrated skills in clinical planning and decision making.

• Demonstrated effective skills in leadership, communication, team building and conflict resolution.

• Ability to work with people of various backgrounds, culture and religion.

• Ability to work under pressure, be flexible in challenging situation.

• Willingness to visit fields and remote places.

BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh in 1972 that partners globally with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty to create opportunities to realise their potential.

To ensure effective community health service, she/ he will evaluate each patient at the triage station based on severity, and to provide daily follow-up care and any necessary treatment to patients who have been admitted to the Rohingya Camps. According to the rules, she or he will offer EPI. Reports and daily and weekly overviews will be provided by the technical assistant (nurse).

• Assessing patients at triage including vital signs measurement (BP, weight, Temp, MUAC).

• Segregating patients following the triage tool and prioritizing the category according to severity.

• Guiding community Health workers to follow up patients at the community level.

• Assisting doctors in emergency management and patient referral.

• Assessing IPD patients by providing necessary treatment routinely.

• Organize daily, weekly, and monthly overviews and reports of ANC, PNC, EPI, family planning services, and health education.

• Linkages to other services and sectors like; MHPSS, GBV, Child Protection, WASH, shelter, and nutrition through site management.

• Provide basic health services including community IMNCI/ICCM, safe motherhood, emergency services, referral, health education, and EPI as per guideline.

• Knowledge of medical and non-medical waste disposal procedures.

• Knowledge of hygiene management and IPC protocol.

• Ensure daily reporting of cases.

• Monitoring of Community Health workers.

• On-job support of Community Health Workers for providing quality home-based care for any disease outbreak.

• Coordinate with CHW supervisors for the follow up of the regular patients.

• Conducts regular monitoring of the program and provides reports.

Safeguarding

• Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organisation and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme`s goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment

• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action

• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so

• Mobile bill

• Weekly 2 holidays

• Free accommodation

• Festival Bonus

• Health & Life Insurance

• Paternity/ Maternity leave

• others as per Organisation policy.