Professional Nurse

Professional Nurse

Brief details:

• Location: Tibú
• Vacancy No: JR00001819
  
• Salary: N/A
• Organization: IRC International Rescue Committee
  
• Deadline: Varies

Qualifications:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world’s largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you’re a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.

General Job Description:

The IRC is seeking a professional nurse for the health program with experience in:

• Health promotion and disease prevention activities in the community setting.
• Counseling and placement of family planning methods.
• Community work with highly vulnerable groups such as children, pregnant women and other women involved in the mixed migration flow.

Additionally, they must have knowledge and positive sensitivity towards sexual and reproductive rights, maternal and child health, the IMCI strategy, Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy and clinical care for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence.

Job Responsibilities:

• To guarantee daily and comprehensive care for users at the different points of care of the program, in accordance with the established services.
• Ensure the provision of health services in accordance with the technical, ethical and quality standards established by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the guidelines of the IRC.
• To guarantee timely and safe access to care for Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE), providing counseling and care under the current Colombian regulatory framework (Sentence C-355 of 2006 and associated regulations).
• Ensure a post-IVE contraceptive insertion rate equal to or greater than 90%, in accordance with the program guidelines.
• To provide comprehensive and timely follow-up to the people served, in accordance with the established clinical protocols and care pathways.
• Prepare drug referral orders in accordance with the list of medications authorized by the organization.
• Complete and sign the referral forms for diagnostic support at the time of care, as appropriate.
• To guarantee confidentiality, dignified treatment and respect for the rights of people who access health services.
• Record all care provided in the electronic medical record in a complete, timely and truthful manner, using the software defined by the organization.
• Consolidate and report daily statistics on care provided, including diagnoses, procedures, and services delivered. Submit the Individual Health Service Provision Record (RIPS) in a timely manner, in accordance with institutional guidelines.
• To correctly and promptly complete the notification forms for events of public health interest for subsequent uploading to the SIVIGILA platform.
• Prepare technical reports (daily, weekly and monthly), according to the requested frequency, including statistics on care and programmatic progress.
• To support the collection of data in an ethical, confidential and technically sound manner, contributing to the strengthening of the program’s information management systems.
• To ensure the programmatic quality of the implemented interventions, through the use, compliance and monitoring of the processes, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and institutional tools of the IRC.
• Comply with and enforce the protocols, technical guidelines, and procedures established by the program and the organization.
• Ensure the implementation of the recommendations issued by supervision, program coordination and management.
• Promote and support adherence to the program’s cross-cutting processes, such as referrals, complaints, claims, and requests (PQR), risk analysis, safeguarding, and other institutional mechanisms.
• Lead the on-the-ground implementation of the IRC’s Community Mobilization Strategy, ensuring proper documentation of activities and the dissemination of progress, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
• To accompany and support the educational days, promotional activities, prevention and continuous training provided by the program.
• Coordinate activities related to visits from donors, IRC staff, media and key stakeholders, ensuring proper organization and fulfillment of the visit objectives.
• Manage and strengthen IRC’s relationships with partner organizations and local actors on the ground, ensuring timely and relevant responses to emerging situations.
• Continuously map stakeholders and actors to identify opportunities for potential strategic alliances.
• Leading on-site sectoral or multi-sectoral needs assessments, contributing to the collection of relevant information for programmatic planning.
• Lead the team’s movements and activities in the field, coordinating with the Operations area to ensure compliance with IRC operational procedures and tools.
• Maintain an up-to-date understanding of the context, identifying relevant changes that may affect security, humanitarian access, or program implementation.
• Report any security incident promptly to your immediate supervisor, in accordance with institutional protocols.
• To be responsible for the proper use, custody and control of supplies, medical devices and other items assigned for the performance of their duties.
• Comply with the work plans, goals, indicators and the general schedule defined within the framework of the grant.
• Perform other duties as assigned by your immediate supervisor, according to the needs of the program.

Work modality and operational conditions in the field:

• The duties of the position will be carried out primarily in an extramural modality, within the framework of the activities programmed in the field.
• The position requires frequent travel to urban and rural areas within the municipalities where the project operates.
• The person must be available for continuous mobility within the territory, according to the operational planning and the needs of the program.
• Availability to travel and stay overnight in the intervention territories is required when the project activities so require.
• Community work with highly vulnerable groups such as children, pregnant women and other women involved in the mixed migration flow.

Donation Control & Reporting

• Submit weekly reports of activities performed in databases, and identify subsidies by service and point of care.
• Community work with highly vulnerable groups such as children, pregnant women and other women involved in the mixed migration flow.

Program Development

• Make contributions that help enrich the work environment.
• Contribute to the development of the strategic direction of the health program.
• Achieving the goals of each grant.
• Coordinate with the IRC areas (ERD, and Child Protection, Education and Protection and Empowerment of Women) as a complement to a holistic service to the initial care of the people served by the health program.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Complete and submit daily statistics based on care and diagnoses.
• Fill out health program databases.
• Ensure the quality of information reporting tools as standardized by MEAL.

Quality

• Ensure that the provision of health services by the IRC or its partners complies with the standard Resolution 3100 of 2019 of the Ministry of Health
• To support, document and update processes, procedures, clinical guidelines and care protocols enabled, in accordance with current regulations, including Resolution 3100 of 2019 and other applicable regulations.
• Support the development of activities to enable new services that the program seeks to implement.
• Accompany visits made by control bodies, respond to improvement plans and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Ensure timely and high-quality reports to regulatory entities in accordance with current regulations
• Support the creation, adjustment and implementation of pharmacovigilance and technovigilance manuals.
• Communicate INVIMA alerts and ensure the implementation of the Patient Safety Policy.
• Design, implement and monitor risk management plans and health committees.
• Audit clinical records to ensure quality of care and follow-up.
• Review and validate the medical record standard according to the Colombian standard.
• Ensure the implementation of informed consent procedures.
• Ensure the implementation of the required dissent form in healthcare in situations where the person refuses to receive prescribed care and treatments.
• Audit the records in the medical history of: anamnesis, health conditions, habits, medication use, general physical examination, education and warning signs, nursing notes, clinical records of procedures, educational components and follow-up.
• Submit the Individual Health Benefits Record – RIPS daily.
• To correctly and promptly complete the notification forms for events of public health interest for subsequent upload to the SIVIGILA platform.

Others

• Comply with the Colombian regulatory framework according to the requirements of the municipal and departmental regulatory bodies.
• Other tasks, as assigned by the supervisor, to enable and develop IRC programs.
• Community work with highly vulnerable groups such as children, pregnant women and other women involved in the mixed migration flow.

Requirements:

• Nursing professional, with professional card and registration in the Rethus.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in caring for pregnant women and preferably in clinical health settings.
• I work with highly vulnerable groups such as children, pregnant women, women facing migration flows and providing extramural care.
• Knowledge of sexual and reproductive rights, family planning, maternal and child health, IMCI, IVE, Clinical Care for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence, nutrition, health promotion and disease prevention, and public health.
• Skills for working with groups, community work, and teamwork
• Skills: for written and verbal communication, effective and affective interpersonal relationships, teamwork, ease of expression, fluent vocabulary
• Attitudes: Service to others, high level of tolerance in adverse situations, empathy, spontaneity to help and collaborate
• Principles and values: solidarity, respect for oneself and others, responsibility, integrity, transparency, honesty, truthfulness.
• Current Course Certificates: Subdermal Implant Insertion Course, Rapid HIV, Syphilis, and Hepatitis B Testing Course, Basic and Advanced Life Support Course, and Cytology or IUD Insertion Course.
• Desirable: Course on care for victims of sexual violence, Course on care for victims of chemical agents, Courses on patient safety, Course on humanization of services.

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS

All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.

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