Nurse - Midwife at Jacaranda Health

Overall Purpose: Responsible for providing and maintaining high standards of professional nursing care to expectant mothers while ensuring consistent provision of efficient and ethical care to support it in achieving quality health service delivery.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work requirements and tasks will be guided by the department’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and hospital protocols, and which are reviewed periodically but will fall broadly in the following Key Responsibility Areas (KRAS)
• Work in collaboration with the clinical team and the management to implement effective procedures, rules, regulations that are consistent with the organization’s values and policies.
• Ensure adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and protocols for nursing services.
• Ensure compliance with established professional and institutional policies, procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Provide comprehensive antenatal care, postnatal care, family planning, deliveries, and other services for clients at the facility based on Jacaranda Health’s clinical protocols and processes
• Provide friendly, helpful service, advice, guidance, and education to all clients
• Maintain client and clinic operational data using our electronic medical records and other information systems
• Maintain a good relationship with the community.
• Work closely with peer educators, CHWs, and traditional birth attendants for outreach and education within the community

Minimum Qualifications

• Hold a diploma or degree in nursing from a recognized university/(medical training) college
• Position holder should have at least 3 years’ experience working as a licensed Nurse/Midwife in a busy maternity institution.
• Position holder should also have experience as a scrub nurse including in hospital surgical departments and clinics.
• Hold an active Nursing license from the local Nursing Council.
• Basic skills in neonatal/paediatric nursing an added advantage