Head Nurse at International Rescue Committee (IRC) Tanzania

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Head Nurse
Kibondo, Tanzania, United Republic of | eq52025
Requisition ID: req52025
Job Title: Head Nurse
Sector: Health
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: Not Applicable
Location: Kibondo, Tanzania
Work Arrangement:

Job Description
Background/IRC Summary:
Founded
in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the International Rescue
Committee (IRC) responds to serious humanitarian crises around the world
and helps victims to survive and rebuild their lives.

For over
half a century, Tanzania has been a country of asylum, hosting one of
the largest refugee populations in Africa. Currently, the country hosts
approximately 287,903 Burundian and Congolese refugees, many of whom
arrived in 2015 as the crisis in Burundi increased. To date, refugees
continue to co-exist with the host communities in Kigoma region
expressing multiple reasons and needs. Within this context, IRC provides
protection and basic assistance in the areas of Safety (comprises of
Protection and Rule of Law, Women Protection and Empowerment, and Child
Protection), Health (mental health and psychosocial support services and
reproductive health), and Education.

Job Overview:
The
Head Nurse is a senior member of the IRC health team, responsible for
coordinating and overseeing the implementation of IRC’s Primary
healthcare activities in Nduta Camp. They will ensure the provision of
high-quality primary healthcare services, including child health and
sexual and reproductive healthcare services.

Under the direction
of the Clinical Officer and in collaboration with other healthcare
staff, the Head Nurse is responsible for the supervision and delivery of
essential nursing care and, in particular:

• Oversee
  and apply nursing knowledge and skills in the prevention, diagnosis,
  and treatment of primary healthcare issues, ensuring appropriate patient
  follow-up and referral as needed.
• Facilitate health promotion and counseling for patients and caregivers.
• Ensure that primary healthcare services are implemented following relevant Ministry of health or international guidelines.
• Supervise
  and ensure timely and accurate recording of patient information and
  consultations in relevant patient registers and facilitate the timely
  submission of required health reports.

Major Responsibilities: Key Areas
Clinical Supervision:

• Supervise
  direct clinical care, working closely with the health facility/mobile
  team clinical staff to ensure high-quality comprehensive primary
  healthcare services.
• Supervise and participate in the triage, screening, and assessment of patients.
• Oversee
  the provision of outpatient treatment, ensuring medications are
  administered as prescribed by the Clinical Officer/ Medical Doctor.
• Facilitate hygiene promotion, health education, and patient/caregiver counseling.
• Ensure adherence to infection prevention and control measures.
• Monitor the accurate recording of information in the clinic registers, and the timely completion of summary reports.
• Ensure wards/clinic areas are appropriately stocked with essential equipment and supplies.
• Supervise and conduct night/day duties as per duty roaster.
• Ensure patient confidentiality is respected, and that all consultations are conducted in a dignified and respectful manner.

Team Management & Development:

• Foster
  open and professional relationships with team members, encouraging a
  robust team spirit and providing mentorship to help staff succeed in
  their roles.
• Provide nursing leadership and mentorship to other
  health facility/mobile clinic staff, offering on-the-job training where
  needed.

Project Management:

• Coordinate
  outreach activities with the rest of the team to reach “hard to reach”
  and vulnerable beneficiaries to increase service utilization.
• Work with and support community volunteers to provide health promotion, community mobilization, and awareness-raising.
• Supervise regular inventory and consumption tracking of medical drugs and supplies.
• Work with relevant staff to ensure timely requesting of medical drugs and supplies.

Coordination & Representation:

• Develop
  and maintain effective working relationships with local communities,
  local government agencies, and other implementing partners.
• Represent the program in meetings with local communities and local partner meetings.

Monitoring & Reporting:

• Ensure all patient consultations are documented and patient records completed.
• Oversee the submission of weekly/monthly/quarterly reports in a timely manner.

Other Duties:

• Continually
  assess the safety and security of the team, promptly reporting concerns
  or incidents to IRC management, and liaise with community leaders and
  other external parties as required to maintain/improve the security
  environment for IRC programs.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs.

Key Working Relationships:

• Position Reports to: Senior Health Manager
• Position directly supervises: All Nurses
• Other Internal and/or external contacts

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Qualifications

• Qualified Nurse with a Nursing Degree.
• Registered with local Nursing Council.
• At least 5 years of clinical nursing experience in primary healthcare, including at least 2 years in a supervisory role.
• Previous
  experience and training in sexual gender-based violence and clinical
  care for sexual assault survivors (desirable). Women are strongly
  encouraged to apply.
• Leadership skills to supervise, train, and facilitate nursing staff and community health workers in their respective tasks.
• Ability
  and flexibility to understand the cultural and political environment
  and to work well with the local health representatives.
• Skills to provide sensitive and appropriate medical counseling.
• Excellent communication skills, proficient in spoken and written English.
• A
  teammate with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work
  under pressure in a stressful environment, displaying patience,
  compassion, and diplomacy.
• Ability to be innovative, flexible, adaptive, and willingness to work out of hours, sometimes throughout the night.
• Ability to live in challenging conditions and work in difficult, fast-paced situations.

Demonstrated Skills and Proficiencies

• Oversees basic nursing care.
• Coordinates outreach activities.
• Facilitates patient/caregiver health promotion and counseling.
• Ensures weekly/monthly/quarterly data collection, compilation, and report submission.
• Ensures health facilities are clean and meet infection prevention and control standards.

Language: English and Swahili

Partnership:
The
IRC is committed to working with partners as our preferred operating
model and adhering to our six partnership principles: equality,
complementarity, mutuality, solidarity, results orientation, and
humility.

Commitment to Client Responsiveness:
By
committing to Client-Centered Programming, at the IRC Tanzania, we place
the people we serve – our clients – at the center of our programming
and services. The IRC Tanzania Staff have an important role to play in
supporting the implementation of client-responsive programming through
raising awareness to the community and clients about the existing
feedback mechanisms and how to use them including the response
processes, access, and eligibility to services, and contribute to
building an institutional culture that prompts staff to listen to
clients and to communicate and respond to their requests, feedback, and
complaints.

Professional Standards:
The IRC and IRC
workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way
– Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and
Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and
enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse,
Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and
Anti-Retaliation.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusivity:
IRC
is committed to building a diverse organization and a climate of
inclusivity. We strongly encourage applications from candidates who can
demonstrate that they can contribute to this goal.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer:
IRC
considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race,
sex, color, national origin, religion, age, marital status, veteran
status, or disability.
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We will ensure that individuals with disabilities
are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job
application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and
to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.