Registered Nurse - 2 Posts at Kenya Medical Research - KEMRI

Key Responsibilities:

• Put in place a plan for overall efficient day-to-day community engagement with facility-based data collectors, including work plans and support supervision
• Coordinate and support data collection of end-of-pregnancy CRFs at maternity and post-natal clinics
• Coordinate home visits with the field workers and community health promoters to collect missing end-of-pregnancy assessment data for home deliveries.
• Review/develop the study Case Record Forms (CRFs) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), ensuring standardised methods are used.
• Training and supervising data clerks supporting health facilities
• Ensure facility-level recruitment is progressing as planned and to predict and plan any changes that warrant changes in recruitment strategies to meet study enrolment timelines.
• Train and support ANC staff on using Kenya EMRs and ensure study-specific variables are well-captured in Kenya EMRs.
• Liaise with relevant stakeholders to ensure data linkage between Kenya EMR and eCHIS for trial participants is well captured.
• Monitor and evaluate participant recruitment, retention, and completeness of data capture in collaboration with facility-level data clerks and take immediate remedial action as and when required.
• Maintain excellent relationships with community health promoters, ANC staff, study participants, and their communities.
• Ensure adherence to regulatory and ethical requirements, study protocols, and administrative requirements among field data clerks and community health volunteers.
• Ensure accurate documentation of project activities and provide training and ongoing monitoring of field activities.
• Work with the project team on the development project documentation,
• To organise monitoring of the study and address queries raised by the study data manager, internal monitors, trial manager and co-investigators.
• To work closely with the data team, field data clerks and trial manager to ensure field data is received promptly from the site(s) and is of high quality.

 Requirement Type

• Be fluent in English and Kiswahili,    
• Be proficient in computer application skills    
• Be willing to reside within the study site    
• Communication Skills    
• Diploma in any of the following disciplines: Kenya Registered Community Health Nursing, Nursing, Kenya Registered Midwifery, Nursing/Midwifery, Nursing/Mental Health and Psychiatry or any other equivalent qualification from a recognized institution; 
• Female candidates are encouraged to apply    
• Interpersonal skills    
• Minimum experience of two years of direct patient contact in a hospital setting  
• Minimum experience using hospital EMRs 
• Must have a valid Practising Licensing from Nursing Council of Kenya;