BPDO is a leading national nonprofit making organization focusing on health, socioeconomic, Capacity Building & volunteerism. We place health care &treatment at the center of all that we do—believing that it is not only a fundamental human right, but is critical for expanding life opportunities for women, families, communities, and nations as a whole and paving the way for creating transformed societies. BPDO provides women, men, unemployed Youths, and adolescents with a range of quality health services—from contraception and maternal care to HIV prevention and AIDS care and treatment. 
BPDO strives to strengthen access to economic growth, ensure the availability of safe Health care services, advocate for sound reproductive health policies, and, through all our work, improve the rights and lives of the people we serve.

The Clinical Nurse creates and strengthens relationships and networking with respective donor staff, Government stakeholders, and other organizations, schedules, counsels, and implements an integrated clinical service, and the clinical nurse performs nursing duties ensuring efficient delivery and client/patient care in accordance with accepted standard medical practice and professional codes of conduct.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide Integrated clinical services, which include HTS, RH/FP, and STI, PrEP & CXCA services based on the service package in a friendly manner.

• Provide counseling and testing professionally following the national counseling protocols

• Provides nursing services, within the defined scope of practice, to patients based on patient assessment and care planning procedures

• Assure the client of the confidentiality of the counseling and testing process 

• Performs nursing interventions such as taking vital signs, applying aseptic techniques, including sterile dressing, ensuring infection control, monitoring nutritional intake, and conducting specimen collection

• Administers medication and observes and documents therapeutic effects

• Provides pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care

• Monitors patients' progress, evaluates the effectiveness of nursing interventions, and consults with appropriate members of the healthcare team

• Provides reproductive health/family planning education to individuals and their families. 

• Prepares all surgical instruments, sets, and medical supplies required for operation in accordance with accepted standards, 

• Assists doctors intra-operatively (as a Scrub Nurse, Circulating Nurse, etc.) and makes the instruments ready for other operations as required.

• Ensures proper receipt, storage, safekeeping, issuance, and timely placement of orders of surgical instruments and medical supplies for theatre by pre-establishing re-order level and regular replenishment of enough stocks.

• Cleans and sterilizes the operating room and instruments.

• Supervises patients' exercise routines, 

• Sets up and provides leisure activities for patients. Provide technical assistance for nurses

• Follow all ART-linked clients active on the service and take appropriate action before linking them to ART facilities 

• Accompanied patients on outside recreational activities and performed other duties related to patient care and comfort

• Transports patients by wheelchair or stretcher for treatment or surgery

• Carries messages, reports, requisitions, and specimens between departments

• Makes beds and maintains patients' rooms

• Takes blood pressure, temperature, and pulse of pregnant women throughout their pregnancy as part of regular follow-up.

• Carries out laboratory tests of patients as part of the evaluation of health conditions of pregnant women with unusual diagnoses and reports to the gynecologist

• Provides counseling to pregnant women having physiological or social difficulties.

• Observes or monitors pregnant women’s status and documents patient care on charts.

• Administers first aid in emergencies. 

• Administers suppositories, colonic irrigations, and enemas 

• Performs other procedures as directed by the supervisor

• Performs related tasks as reasonably required

Gender Equality   

• Demonstrate understanding of BPDO’s Gender Equality Strategy

• Contribute to ensuring that Beza Posterity Development Organization is a place where men and women are treated equally and with dignity and respect 

• Demonstrate gender equality awareness and gender sensitivity and an ability to integrate a gender equality perspective into tasks and activities.

Job Requirements

Person specification:  

Educational requirement

• BSc- Clinical Nursing.

• Certificate of the Center of Competence 

• Professional registration license   

Required Professional experience:  

• 04 years and above work experience, preferably with NGOs

• Experience of working with MARPs 

• Experience in developing a detailed implementation plan of activities, good computer usage skills, Good interpersonal communication, Certificate on HIV testing and counseling, Certificate on syndromic management of STIs 

• Certificate on both long-term & short-term family planning 

Competencies:

• Data Quality and Data Use

• Reporting & Documentation

• Good interpersonal skills and a team player with sensitivity to cultural diversity

• Ability to work under pressure

How To Apply

Interested applicants should submit to THIS LINK
What we offer   

A competitive salary and benefit package

Good medical benefits, including dependents, with a limited amount as per duration

18 days annual leave

17 weeks (paid) maternity leave, 5 days paternity leave

Note:
•    Only short-listed candidates will be contacted 
•    Female candidates will be contacted to apply