# Nurse Professional

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: San Andrés de Tumaco, Colombia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The IRC is seeking a professional nurse for its health programme with experience in community health promotion and disease prevention activities, family planning advisory services, and work with vulnerable groups such as children, pregnant women, and women affected by armed conflict and mixed migration flows.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

- Providing daily, comprehensive care to users at different programme locations

- Ensuring technical, ethical, and quality standards are met in health service delivery

- Guaranteeing access to safe and timely voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVE) services, providing counselling and care within the Colombian legal framework

- Achieving a post-IVF contraceptive insertion rate of 90% or higher

- Conducting integral and timely follow-up of patients, according to clinical protocols and established care routes

- Preparing pharmacological referral orders according to authorised medication lists

- Filling out and signing diagnostic support referral forms

- Ensuring confidentiality, dignified treatment, and respect for users' rights

- Registering all care provided in electronic medical records using organisation-defined software

- Consolidating and reporting daily statistics on care provided, including diagnoses, procedures, and services offered

- Submitting individual health service provision records (RIPS) in a timely manner

- Filling out public health event notification formats for subsequent upload to SIVIGILA

- Preparing technical reports (daily, weekly, and monthly) as requested

- Supporting data collection, analysis, and use to strengthen programme management information systems

- Leading community mobilisation strategy implementation and documenting activities

- Accompanying educational sessions, promotion activities, and continuous training

- Coordinating visits from donors, IRC staff, media, and key actors

- Managing and strengthening relationships with partner organisations and local actors

- Performing sectoral or multisectoral needs assessments

- Leading team displacements and activities in the field, articulating with Operations to ensure compliance with IRC procedures

- Maintaining context awareness and identifying changes affecting security, humanitarian access, or programme implementation

- Reporting security incidents promptly

- Being responsible for proper use, custody, and control of assigned supplies, medical devices, and elements

- Complying with work plans, goals, indicators, and general schedules defined under the grant agreement

The position requires:

- A nursing degree with a professional card and registration in Rethus

- At least 2 years of experience in prenatal care, preferably in clinical settings

- Experience working with vulnerable groups, including children, pregnant women, and women affected by migration flows and extramural care

- Knowledge of sexual and reproductive rights, family planning, maternal-child health, AIEPI, IVE, clinical care for survivors of gender-based violence, nutrition, health promotion, disease prevention, and public health

- Skills in group work, community work, and teamwork

- Effective written and verbal communication, interpersonal relationships, and expression

- Attitudes of service to others, high tolerance for adverse situations, empathy, and spontaneity to help and collaborate

- Principles and values of solidarity, self-respect, respect for others, responsibility, integrity, transparency, honesty, and truthfulness

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## Skills

### Required
- Spanish
- nursing
- family planning
- maternal-child health
- public health
- community health
- gender-based violence
- health promotion
- disease prevention

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