ITP Nurse at the Taimaka Project - 2 Openings

The Taimaka Project runs a treatment program for acute malnutrition in children younger than five years in Gombe state, Nigeria. Within our treatment program, we incubate innovations to make malnutrition treatment better, cheaper, and simpler so that scarce resources can save more lives. Our research team is preparing to launch a study on the mental health of caregivers of children who are acutely malnourished.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: ITP Nurse

Locations: Deba and Bajoga - Gombe

Main Purpose

• Provide nursing care, and institute treatment of patients according to national protocols, universal hygienic standards, and other procedures, to ensure a good delivery of care in the Inpatient Therapeutic Feeding Program (ITP)

Responsibilities

• Implement and follow the universal hygiene standards, biohazard, Prevention and infection control, security rules, and other protocols and procedures regarding nursing and children's nutrition matters.
• Organize and carry out care and treatments according to medical prescriptions and assist them during consultations/ daily rounds and other medical procedures.
• Supervise the daily activities of the nutrition assistants to ensure patients are given the right feed, quantity, and timely.
• Ensure triage of patients in waiting areas, detect the priority acute cases, carry out first aid care when necessary, and refer them to the physician where necessary.
• Carry out all patient-related tasks for admission, weighing and measuring the children, identifying the degree and types of malnutrition, administration (patient card, register, etc.
• Ensure that medical and nutritional care is properly delivered to the patients and to daily follow the progress of the patients.
• Follow-up on patients’ medical and nutritional evolution, identifying possible emergencies arising, and keeping doctors informed if necessary.
• Provide advice and inform children’s families about everything concerning the hospitalization, participate in the health education of the mothers, and/or treatment process.
• Participate in department-related pharmacy and medical equipment control and maintenance
• Control all pharmacy, food, and medical equipment (carrying out inventories, checking its quality and functioning, storage conditions, doing follow-up of expired drugs, etc.).
• Carry out and supervise administrative procedures and documents (fill in patients' files, forms, statistics, etc.), ensure an appropriate written/oral handover, and report any problematic situations and cases arising.
• Cover the gap of nurse colleagues when required in the project.
• This position profile can be modified, depending on the evolution of the job
•  In addition to the tasks listed above, the nurse may be required to perform other tasks assigned by the supervisor as required by the mission

Requirements

• Education: Nursing diploma/BSc Nursing with nutritional training essential.
• Experience: Previous experience required. Experience with NGO desirable.            
• Languages: English and the local language are essential.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: hiring@taimaka.org using the the location and job title as the subject of the mail. e.g "Deba - ITP Nurse"