Job Description:

About the Job

Permanent position responsible for providing holistic care, performing comprehensive physical examinations, assessing, formulating, planning and implementing evidence-based nursing care, creating and maintaining a safe nursing care environment, carrying out clinical audits, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, documenting interventions and nursing outcomes, conducting community health risk assessment, participating in quality improvement and quality assurance procedures, referring patients and clients appropriately, facilitating patients’ admission and initiating discharge plans, maintaining records, following up convalescing patients, conducting assessment of school health needs, conducting occupational health needs assessment, conducting community diagnosis, and conducting desk review, collecting data and implementing recommendations.

Responsibilities

Providing holistic care by carrying out risk identification and assessment of an individual throughout the lifespan.
Performing a comprehensive physical examination within various settings.
Assessing, formulating, planning and implementing evidence-based nursing care for client/patient.
Creating and maintaining a safe nursing care environment for client/patient.
Carrying out clinical audits to improve client/patient care.
Collaborating and maintaining effective working relationships among interdisciplinary teams to support client/patient and their families.
Documenting interventions and nursing outcomes.
Conducting a community health risk assessment and providing outcome based interventions.
Participating in quality improvement and quality assurance procedures.
Referring patients and clients appropriately.
Facilitating patients’ admission and initiating discharge plans.
Maintaining records on patients/clients personal and health condition/care.
Following up convalescing patients referred from higher facilities for continuity of care.
Conducting assessment of school health needs, plan, implement interventions, and preparing periodic reports.
Conducting occupational health needs assessment, planning, implementing, evaluating, making recommendations and preparing periodic reports.
Conducting community diagnosis and providing feedback.
Conducting desk review, collecting data and implementing recommendations of the findings for improvement of nursing care.

Requirements

Be a Kenyan citizen.
A relevant working experience of at least three (3) years in the public or private sector.
Bachelor’s Degree in either Nursing or Midwifery from a recognized institution.
Registration Certificate issued by the Nursing Council of Kenya.
Valid practicing license from Nursing Council of Kenya.
Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.
Shown merit and ability as reflected in work performance and results.