Job Title: Community Nurse
Organization: Adara
Development
Development
Duty Station:
Uganda
Uganda
Reports to: Sydney-based
Monitoring and Evaluation Manager
Monitoring and Evaluation Manager
About US:
Adara Development is
committed to improving Maternal Newborn Child Health (MNCH) services in Uganda,
by supporting holistic programmes that ensure women and children have access to
services across the continuum of care.
committed to improving Maternal Newborn Child Health (MNCH) services in Uganda,
by supporting holistic programmes that ensure women and children have access to
services across the continuum of care.
Job Summary: The Community Nurse will lead the home follow-up
component of the H2H programme, which provides support, care, and advice to
families during the first six months following discharge from the Kiwoko
Hospital NICU. This involves supervising 10 Chief village Health Teams (vHTs),
recruiting 100 VHTs, providing continuous training and development, and
conducting home visits alongside VHTs for high-risk cases. The role requires a
passion for providing support to newborns and families during the postpartum
period, excellent management and clinical skills, and the ability to assist the
H2H study team in collecting data to inform the H2H programme.
component of the H2H programme, which provides support, care, and advice to
families during the first six months following discharge from the Kiwoko
Hospital NICU. This involves supervising 10 Chief village Health Teams (vHTs),
recruiting 100 VHTs, providing continuous training and development, and
conducting home visits alongside VHTs for high-risk cases. The role requires a
passion for providing support to newborns and families during the postpartum
period, excellent management and clinical skills, and the ability to assist the
H2H study team in collecting data to inform the H2H programme.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate must hold a Diploma in Nursing or Midwifery, or
Comprehensive Nursing - Knowledge of public health, newborn health and community midwifery,
and relevant professional experience - Able or willing to learn to ride a motorcycle, and work in
hard-to-reach areas - Strong project management skills, and experience managing and
motivating a team - Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a wide variety of
stakeholders, including children - Computer literate with excellent documentation and administration
skills - Fluency in Luganda and in spoken and written English to the tertiary
level
How to Apply:
All suitably
qualified and interested persons should submit their applications together with
relevant academic documents, copy of national ID, and an updated CV, indicating
three recognised referees, their addresses and functioning telephone
contacts, to: [email protected], or by mail or hand-delivered to the
undersigned address.
qualified and interested persons should submit their applications together with
relevant academic documents, copy of national ID, and an updated CV, indicating
three recognised referees, their addresses and functioning telephone
contacts, to: [email protected], or by mail or hand-delivered to the
undersigned address.
The Country
Director,
Director,
Adara Development
G/0 Kiwoko Hospital
G/0 Kiwoko Hospital
P.O. Box 149,
Luweero, Uganda
Luweero, Uganda
Deadline: 5th December 2018
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