OSS Nurse at Excellence Community Education Welfare Scheme (ECEWS) Full Time

Job Title: OSS Nurse

Locations: Ebonyi
Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

• Provide comprehensive triage (in-clinic and/or mobile) and clinical assessment service to clients resulting in safe and appropriate clinical decisions that reflect their healthcare needs.
• Facilitate the triage process using clinical knowledge and appropriate interpersonal skills, demonstrating empathy, and understanding.
• Initiate appropriate nursing interventions (e.g. first aid and emergency interventions) to improve client outcomes and secure the safety of clients and clinic staff
• Make recommendations for care utilizing approved SOPs and protocols.
• Ensure continuous reassessment and management of clients who remain in the waiting room commensurate with their condition and time frames determined by the assigned care category.
• Schedule client appointments for routine or follow up care and treatment.
• Where referrals for other healthcare services are necessary, support arrangements for the appropriate service via the appropriate referral system.
• Provide accurate healthcare information and self-care/health improvement advice to meet the holistic and therapeutic requirements of the client.
• Provide appropriate education to clients regarding medical terms and procedures.
• Act as the client advocate during the assessment process, identifying potential risk factors for clients (including GBV and other welfare issues) for referrals to the appropriate service following agreed processes.
• Deal professionally and sensitively with highly personal, delicate, confidential, and sometimes complex issues.
• Create new medical records including clients’ demographic information and other relevant parameters.
• Maintain master client index by completing assigned sections of daily audit trail; correct and communicate problems according to established procedures.
• Document accurate and concise clinical summary that outlines reasons for visit, decisions reached, relevant client history and follow up appointments with timescale given to client.
• Monitor and report weekly enrolment.
• Maintain records availability by processing files into the department; using file mark-off procedures; facilitating file location activities.
• Retrieve medical records by following file-out procedures.
• Deliver files to assigned areas of the hospital by following established routing procedures including computerized/automated file sharing.
• Maintain accurate computerized and paper triaged assessment records.
• Maintains quality results by following data SOP.
• Maintain client confidence by keeping client records information confidential.
• Serve and protect the clinic by adhering to professional standards, clinic policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements.
• Track file-out procedures and document reasons files cannot be retrieved for statistical and follow-up purposes.
• Keep health care providers informed by communicating availability or unavailability of the record.
• Maintain continuity of work operations by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs
• Support the monitoring and reporting of medication errors, suspected adverse reactions to medicines, and other medication-related events.
• Actively participate in identifying Health and Safety risk issues
• Participate in quality improvement through ongoing involvement in internal and external clinic quality assurance processes.
• Participate in research processes to audit and evaluate triage practices.
• Provide support to the Strategic Information (SI) unit to conduct research (qualitative and quantitative) surveys on service delivery outcomes for HIV prevention, care and treatment.
• Ensure timely submission of quality reports to the Head Quarters on monthly and quarterly basis or as required.
• Support the development of budgets and work plans, as appropriate, for clinical services in the state.
• Support the accountability process in compliance with GF financial rules and regulations.
• Carry out any assignment as may be decided by the PR/SR

Required Qualifications

• Degree in Nursing / Midwifery and a Degree in Public Health is an added advantage.
• Robust clinical experience in HIV/AIDS care and treatment
• Experience in providing Key Population services and or comprehensive Reproductive Health services (2 years + preferable)
• Excellent grasp of clinical issues and current literature in HIV/AIDS and SRH
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• KP Experience will be an added advantage.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Send a detailed resume and a one-page cover letter as one (1) MS Word document explaining suitability for the position to the Human Resources Unit by email to: [email protected] Application must explicitly state your full names, the position of interest with preferred location as the subject of the email.