This position will be reporting to the Nursing Officer. The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

Key Responsibilities

·        Contribute to delivering a range of nursing, clinical and public/community health services that aim to promote health and enhance the quality of patient care services.

·        Provide optimal nursing care to inpatients and outpatients

·        Triaging, emergency and critical care

·        Collaborate with other medical staff to provide comprehensive patient care

·        Bedside nursing care

·        Counselling/ Information, Education and Communication (IEC) to relevant clients

·        Maternal Child Health service provision (pregnancy, childbirth & postnatal)

·        Conducting Employee and Community Wellness Programmes

·        Ensure patient safety and optimal well-being through recommended best practice

·        Stewardship of the environment patients are exposed to in the wards and outpatient department.

·        Maintain Inventory and drug supplies on the wards and in the clinics

·        Triage patients accessing care at the facility

·        Provide nursing care to both inpatients and outpatients

·        Conduct nursing procedures such as phlebotomy, IV cannula insertion, catheterization, wound dressing, oral and parenteral drug administration

·        Collaborate with the medical team for patient care

·        Provide basic bedside care

·        Document care interventions and patients’ condition.

·        Provide counselling, information, education and communication (IEC) to clients where necessary

·        Conduct antenatal assessments, monitoring foetal well-being and manage complications as they arise in line with midwifery best practice.

·        Manage the intrapartum period, including conducting deliveries, managing pain and providing emotional support to parents

·        Conduct postnatal assessments, monitor new-borns for signs of distress, and provide support and education to new parents

·        Conduct Maternal Child Health (MCH) activities e.g., immunizations

·        Participate in community health promotion activities

·        Adhere to the infection prevention and control (IPC) standard operating procedures including autoclaving/sterilizing of instruments and good housekeeping

·        Maintain inventory and order supplies. Making sure supplies are properly organized, accounted for and restocked on time to ensure the medical team has all the resources they need to provide quality patient care

·        Accompany critically ill patients transported in the ambulance to referral health facilities

·        Patient case management (i.e., consultation, prescribing and dispensing of medication), where appropriate and in line with stipulated country regulations

Qualifications and Experience

·        Full grade 12 Certificate.

·        Registered Nursing Diploma

·        Advanced Diploma in Midwifery

·        Valid practicing license from the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Zambia (NMCZ)

·        Preferably 5 years relevant work experience

·        Basic computer proficiency/literacy

·        Clinical skills and knowledge of best practice in nursing and midwifery care

·        Excellent interpersonal and community skills, team leadership qualities, good communications skills, good temperaments.

·        Suitably qualified applicants must provide certificates verified by Zambia Qualifications Authority (ZAQA).