Clinical Nurse

Job Description

INTRODUCTION 

Save the Children has been working in Rwanda since 1994 in partnership with the Government of Rwanda (GoR) and local stakeholders to promote a bright future for children. We have experience working in all 30 districts across the country. The main areas of focus are education, child protection, child rights governance, and health and nutrition in humanitarian and development contexts.

GENERAL BACKGROUND

Save the Children (SC) is the world’s largest independent child rights organization, underpinned by a vision of a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation. Our mission to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Save the Children implements both development and humanitarian assistance programs in Rwanda and Burundi.

ROLE PURPOSE

In light of the ongoing Marburg virus response in Rwanda, the Nurse will contribute to the provision of quality primary health care (Curative, Promotive, and Preventive) in SCI’s supported health facilities, assisting in the humanitarian preparedness and response efforts. The nurse will play a critical role in ensuring infection prevention and control, providing safe patient care, and supporting ongoing surveillance, triage, and case management activities tailored to the Marburg response.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

1. Clinical duties

• Assist clinicians, midwives, lab, vaccination, and pharmacy teams in the delivery of general duties, following MOH/WHO guidelines.
• Manage triage, take vital signs, and organize patients for consultation, prioritizing Marburg-related symptoms.
• Conduct vaccinations for children and pregnant women, with adherence to outbreak prevention protocols.
• Perform wound care, including dressing and suturing, and provide nursing care according to doctor’s instructions.
• Ensure compliance with MoH/WHO guidelines for rational drug use, especially concerning infection prevention for Marburg.
• Collaborate with consulting staff to provide treatment per MOH/WHO guidelines, with focus on outbreak protocols.
• Collect laboratory specimens, including any necessary for Marburg screening, and prepare for testing.
• Monitor medical supplies, ensuring adequate stock of essential items required for outbreak preparedness.
• Provide pre-referral and referral nursing care, ensuring that protocols are followed when transferring potential cases to secondary and tertiary hospitals.
• Promote health and well-being, using health promotion, health education, and therapeutic communication skills tailored to the outbreak context.
• Maintain infection prevention control measures within the working environment and ensure strict adherence during the response.
• Follow disease surveillance protocols, tracking trends from weekly and monthly morbidity data in line with the outbreak response.
• Collaborate with the Medical Team and Primary Health Care (PHC) Nurses to enhance emergency preparedness.

2. Professional role      

• Promote personal development and clinical excellence.
• Work with the nursing team and others in developing new roles, responding to changing healthcare needs.
• Facilitate and participate in multi-disciplinary education  like continous medical education and clinical supervision/mentorship
• Maintain own professional development in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council Regulations.
• Promote evidence-based practice through the use of the latest research-based guidelines.
• Monitor the effectiveness of the clinical practice through the quality assurance strategies such as the use of audit and peer review.
• Participate in continuing professional development opportunities such as CME to ensure that up-to-date evidence-based knowledge and competence in all aspects of the role is maintained
• Pro-actively promote the role of the nursing professional within the practice, and externally to key stakeholders and other agencies.
• Assessing, planning, implementing nursing interventions and evaluating patient’s outcomes
• Engage in professional development activities, especially those relevant to Marburg preparedness.
• Participate in continuous medical education, including outbreak-specific training.
• Monitor the effectiveness of clinical practice, focusing on quality assurance through audits and peer reviews.

3. Team role

• Support other healthcare team members and accept referrals from other team members.
• Participate as a key member of the multi-professional team through the development of collaborative and innovative practice.
• Collaborate with other team members to support integrated healthcare responses.
• Act as a key member of the multi-professional team, especially during the outbreak response

4. Organizational role

• Complete records, audits, and reports and respond to appropriate questions and requests.
• Support effective communication channels between the whole team and attend meetings as requested.
• Ensure that common patient complaints might also be the catalyst for change within practice procedures.
• In additional to the above listed responsibilities, the Nurse will also be responsible for any other duty deemed necessary by the Line Manager.

5. Nutrition support 

• Ensure identification, admission, and discharge of malnourished children, pregnant women, and lactating mothers, with adjustments as required for the Marburg response.
• Establish referral pathways for malnutrition cases.

6. Provide specific care services in specialized services (as annexed)

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability

• holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity

• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS 

• Advanced diploma(A1) or Bachelors degree(Ao) in General Nursing  registered by from National Council of Nurses and Midwifes (with VALID license)
• Significant nursing experience working in public or private health facilities.
• Experience of working in humanitarian settings is an asset.
• Having training in hygiene and  tropical medicine is an asset.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Comprehensive knowledge and skills in nursing care processes
• Excellent liaison abilities and good communication skills (French, Kirundi and English preferred).
• Excellent knowledge of patients rights and health professional rights
• Knowledge of aseptic and sterilisation methods;
• Strong capacity of nosocomial infection prevention
• Organisation and hygiene skills, knowledge and behaviour.
• Computer knowledge (Microsoft office, M.S Word, MS Excel)

Desireable

• Language skills in Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, English, and French
• Experience of working in remote health centers preferably in Refugees settings.
• Excellent knowledge of patient’s rights and health professional rights.

Apply through the Following Link No Later than 06th November 2024

CHILD SAFEGUARDING

This position is Child Safeguarding Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ANTI-HARASSMENT POLICY

We are committed to ensuring a safe working environment for all those who work for us and for all those who come into contact with our staff and representatives, including children and members of the communities with whom we work.

SCI takes a zero-tolerance approach to sexual harassment and any other conduct that is discriminatory or disrespectful to others.

We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Disclaimer: Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process.