Save the Children Nurse Job Vacancy in Rwanda

POSITION
ANNOUNCEMENT

Rwanda
Country Programme, Kigali Rwanda

BACKGROUND:

Save the Children is
the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120
countries. We work together, with partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way
the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their
lives. Save the Children works in thirteen districts in Rwanda with a current
staff complement of approximately 94 staff. SC is implementing an emergency
response programme to support the Burundi refugees in Mahama Refugee Camp.

SC Rwanda Country
Office seeks to hire qualified, committed and experienced nationals to
fill the following positions: 

Nurse

Tentative
start date: 
                   January
2016

PURPOSE OF
POSITION:

The Nurse will work
to contribute to an improvement in the overall health of the targeted refugee
population of Mahama Camp through the provision of quality primary health care.
(Curative OPD, Promotive and Preventive Health Care)

KEY AREAS OF
ACCOUNTABILITY

• Responsible
  for the general running of the OPD in Diagnosis and treatment as per
  MOH/WHO guidelines.
• Review
  all patients  requiring referral to secondary level Health facilities
  for further management
• Undertake
  minor surgical procedures like I&D, Suturing of deep wounds etc
• To
  conduct Nursing care of patients as per Doctors guidelines &
  Instructions
• Ensure
  compliance to MoH/WHO guidelines of rational drug use
• In
  collaboration with  the consulting staff ( MD,s Midwife &
  Fellow  Nurses) provide treatment as per MOH/WHO treatment guidelines
  and protocols
• Follow
  disease surveillance and trends through review of weekly and monthly
  morbidity data generated from the clinic
• Work
  with other Medical Team PHC Nurse to operationalize emergency preparedness
  to be able to responding to any potential outbreaks
• Monitor
  medical consumptions and re-supply based on the data collected at the
  service delivery to minimize stock rupture.
• Together
  with other Medical Team review and analyze all compiled data before submission
  to Management,  ARC, MoH & UNHCR
• In
  additional to the above listed responsibilities the Nurse will also be
  responsible for any other duty deemed necessary by the Line Manager.

Capacity
Building:

• Identify
  learning and training opportunities for Save the Children health staff and
  partners and work as a mentor and role model for less experienced staff.

General:

• Comply
  with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child
  protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other
  relevant policies and procedures.

CORE
BEHAVIOURS

Understanding
humanitarian contexts and application of humanitarian principles:

• Able
  to assess and analyse key issues in the humanitarian situation and
  formulate actions around them
• Actively
  engages in disaster coordination mechanisms and interagency cooperation
• Leads
  on the development of an organisational response based on an understanding
  of the contexts

Achieving
results effectively:

• Ensures
  beneficiary and partner feedback is incorporated into programme design,
  planning and learning
• Demonstrates
  flexibility to adapt plans and make decisions in rapidly changing
  environments
• Actively
  manages risk and takes action to reduce risk
• Makes
  changes to improve performance as a result of information received
• Documents
  lessons learned and applies them to future projects

Maintaining and
developing collaborative relationships:

• Develops
  strategies for teams to work across traditional boundaries, working in
  diverse environments
• Establishes
  clear objectives with teams and individuals and monitors progress and
  performance
• Fosters
  collaborative, transparent and accountable relationships through partners
• Uses
  negotiation and conflict resolution skills to support positive outcomes

Operating safely
and securely:

• Demonstrates
  an understanding of wider UN/NGO security coordination and how the
  organisation can benefit from, and contribute to, those mechanisms
• Undertakes
  effective risk assessments and develops contingency plans
• Takes
  appropriate, coordinated and consistent action to handle situations of
  personal risk and risk for others
• Reduces
  vulnerability by complying with safety and security protocols set by the
  organisation

Managing you in
a pressured and changing environment:

• Helps
  team members to practise stress management through prioritisation of
  workloads and modelling of appropriate self-care
• Remains
  focused on the objectives and goals in a rapidly changing environment
• Remains
  effective and retains perspective in the face of difficult or demanding
  situations

SKILLS AND
BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds
  self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently,
  achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds
  the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities –
  giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing
  the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate
  consequences when results are not achieved
• Creates
  a managerial environment across the Region to lead, enable and
  maintain our culture of child safeguarding

Ambition:

• Sets
  ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes
  responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their
  team to do the same
• Future
  orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale

Collaboration:

• Approachable,
  good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective
  relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and
  supporters
• Values
  diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work
  cross-culturally.

Creativity:

• Develops
  and encourages new and innovative solutions

Integrity:

• honest,
  encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence
• displays
  consistent excellent judgement

QUALIFICATIONS
AND EXPERIENCE

1. A
   qualified Registered Nurse  with tropical medicine experience,
   registered / licensed by medical practitioners board
2. Experience
   in working in PHCU’s and health center/hospital setting.
3. Experience
   working with international NGO.
4.  Excellent
   liaison abilities and good communication skills (French, Kiswahili and
   English preferred).
5. Willingness
   to work in resource poor environment and be culturally sensitive.
6. Ability
   to produce basic reports in English
7. Ability
   to work in a remote area and in context of insecurity issues.
8. Experience
   managing  Referral of patients  from Primary Health Care centres
   to secondary level facilities

Desirable

• Language
  skills in Kinyarwanda,  French and Swahili
• An
  area of particular expertise within humanitarian health
• Experience
  of working on HIV programmes
• Specific
  experience of working in consortia projects.

Interested
candidates should send an application letter plus updated Curriculum Vitae in
English, including 3 names of professional referees to HR-Rwanda@savethechildren.org.
The deadline for receiving applications is 26th November 2015.

*Note that
only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.