Position: Family Planning Outreach Team Nurse
Supervisor: Family Planning Outreach Team Lead
Position Summary:
The incumbent who should be an effective team player will report directly to the Outreach Team Leader to ensure improved access to the under-served and hard to reach population with an improved method mix that includes LARC (long acting reversible contraception) and will be responsible for comprehensive quality Family planning services with appropriate method –mix across all sectors including in a special way to achieve high coverage in the hard to reach populations and groups.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provides efficient, effective, and responsive family planning services in line with the set policies and protocols.
- Ensures complete and effective records according to National and program requirements.
- Provide care to the client that contributes to their optimum sexual and reproductive health outcomes.
- Maintain records and statistics as required, ensuring accurate statistics are supplied within required time frames.
- Participate in supervision of nurse aides/ drivers and act as a role model for team members within Family Planning Outreach team.
- Assist in the induction, integration, and assessment of new clinical and non-clinical staff.
- Assist in skills building of external health professionals.
- Assist in identifying learning needs of the team and acting as a resource.
- Ensures continuous quality improvement into all activities.
- Contributes to meeting the objectives of MHURI/IMULI FP quality plan.
- Complies with all health and safety procedures to ensure their own safety and the safety of others in the workplace and actively participates in maintaining a safe working environment at outreach.
- Give health education on Family planning services and methods.
- Provides in depth counselling and support clients in selecting their method of choice,
Knowledge, skills and abilities:
- Effective written and oral communication skills.
- Initiative and the ability to anticipate situations, create opportunities or avoid problems
- Demonstrated skills in the effective management of resources
- Demonstrated teamwork and networking abilitiesComputer literacy
Qualifications and requirements:
- Current Practicing Certificate.
- Diploma in Nursing
- Midwifery Certificate
- Minimum of one-year recent, full-time, post-basic nursing experience.
This job description summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.
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