Community Health Nurse at EHA Clinics

EHA Clinics, a subsidiary of eHealth Africa, is a health care network operating across Nigeria that provides high-quality, innovative, data-driven, and technology-enabled services. EHA Clinics delivers a comprehensive range of state of the art health care services in each location, e.g,  general consultations, laboratory investigations, pharmaceuticals, annual medical checks, child wellness checks, ultrasonography, and specialized services (urgent care, telemedicine, home care, dental care, and ophthalmology).

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Community Health Nurse

Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time

Purpose of the position 

• The CHN will deliver quality community and home-care based, preventive, promotive and selected basic curative health services within the assigned clusters.
• The CHN will be deployed to expand the clinic’s reach through EHA Clinics homecare model, and will be provided with homecare kits and a means of transportation to provide health services to people who cannot access care due to proximity or incapacitation.
• They will also serve as a referral point to EHA Clinics for medical cases beyond their capacity.
• The CHN will work in close collaboration with stakeholders to create awareness and increase demand for healthcare services and products, social insurance, and other products/services to improve health and wellbeing. 

Requirements
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required to successfully perform this job:

• A minimum of Nursing certificate
• 1 - 2 years relevant work experience.
• Active membership of Community Based Organizations (CBO)  and/or work within the private health sector is highly desirable. 
• Must come from the assigned community and must be able to communicate proficiently in appropriate language of the assigned cluster.
• High level of patience and tolerance in dealing with community people 
• Experience in conducting interpersonal communication.

Application Closing Date
15th September, 2023.