Nursing Services Specialist at Caritas Nigeria

Caritas Nigeria was established in September 2010 by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), as a specialized national development agency with a mandate for overall coordination of development programs for the Catholic Church in Nigeria. Although independently registered, Caritas Nigeria is an arm of the Church and Society Department of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN). Caritas Nigeria also provided care, treatment and support to over 39,921 patients in ten service delivery health facilities under the CHARIS program which was supported by the United States of America through the Centre for Disease Control and prevention (CDC).

CN invites applications for her "SUSTAIN Project" in the position below:

Job Title: Nursing Services Specialist

Job Code: 00062015
Location: Abuja
Job Type: Full Time
Department: Sustain Project
Category: Health Care

Job Descriptions

• Provide on-site hands-on mentorship for facility Nursing staff and other Health care workers across program areas in HIV care and treatment with direct patient nursing care at site level.
• Carry out Nursing related needs assessment both technical and programmatic at facilities and offer solutions in line with CCFN organizational goals and objectives.
• Build and maintain current HIV/AIDS knowledge of nurses and other health care workers to improve patient’s standard of care at the treatment facilities through organization of regular didactic sessions, mortality reviews, case reviews etc.
• Ensure integration of prevention of MTCT services into all ante natal care services and effective mentoring and supervision of health care workers at newly activated PMTCT sites.
• Build capacity of facility nurses to take on new roles such as task shifting of ART refill for stable patients
• Strengthen facility based patient health education curriculum.
• Follow up on implementation, monitoring and evaluation of continuous quality improvement strategies.
• Participate in all desk time related activities including making presentations, journaling, organizational research and abstract writing.
• Ensure participation in national Nursing and Midwifery Council Programs and activities.
• Participate in the activities of national technical working group of designated program areas and other stakeholder meetings.
• Working closely with the community services team, build capacity of community based health workers to provide community based care.

Preferred Skills

• A Bachelor's of Science degree in Nursing plus 4 years’ working experience in HIV care and treatment.
• Experience in Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission, nutrition care and support and demonstrable technical training capacity.
• Experience in mentoring RN’s or other Community Healthcare Workers.
• Experience in using Microsoft Office suite for word processing, presentations, publication and spreadsheet management.
• Experience: working with diverse populations and communities.
• Experience in developing and maintaining effective working relationships with healthcare workers, community members, colleagues and supervisors.
• Evidence of effective written and verbal communication; attention to detail, organizational and problem solving skills.

Application Closing Date
Friday, 17th July 2015.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their application and updated Curriculum Vitae, to: [email protected]

Click here to view the Overview of Sustain Project