# Nurse

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a Nurse to work under the guidance and supervision of the CCC-TB Clinical Officer in Charge. The successful candidate will be directly responsible for ensuring ART uptake among HIV infected pregnant/lactating women, ensuring viral suppression among eMTCT women, overseeing the provision of early infant diagnosis, care, and follow-up of HIV-exposed infants, and strengthening linkages between eMTCT and HEI services and Comprehensive Care Clinics.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Ensure ART uptake among HIV infected pregnant/lactating women

- Ensure viral suppression among eMTCT women

- Oversee the provision of early infant diagnosis, care, and follow-up of HIV-exposed infants

- Ensure follow-up and retention of HIV-infected pregnant/lactating women and HIV-exposed infants (HEI) by use of the case management model

- Strengthen linkages between eMTCT and HEI services and Comprehensive Care Clinics

- Supervise eMTCT services provided by the maternal case managers

- Work hand in hand with the clinical officers to implement patients Plan of Care

- Perform TB intensified case finding for PLHIV on every clinical encounter

- Initiate IPT for all PLHIV who don’t have TB or other Isoniazid Contra-Indications

- Send all PLHIV presenting with presumptive TB for GeneXpert as a first test

- Send all patients diagnosed with TB for HIV testing

- Initiate ART in all newly diagnosed TB/HIV co-infected patients within two (2) weeks of starting TB treatment

- Ensure that laboratory results are filed, documented, and always communicated to the patients

- Ensure 12 month/24 months HEI Cohort Analysis (HCA), PCR positive validation, and audits and PMTCT reports is done each month

- Participate in MNCH Working Improvement Teams (WITS) and initiate CQI projects on gaps identified

- Participate in MNCH in generation, compilation, and utilization of eMTCT data

- Participate in Continuous Professional development as required by nursing council

- Carry out any other additional duties as may be assigned by the supervisor

**Required Qualifications:**

- Three (3) years’ experience, 2 year of which should be within a busy HIV Comprehensive Care Centre and/or in the provision of eMTCT services

- Demonstrable knowledge of HIV/ART management, diagnosis and treatment procedures of conditions associated with HIV, adherence support and eMTCT service delivery Method of Application

- Diploma in Nursing from KMTC or recognized nurse training institution

- Be registered and have a valid license from the Nursing Council of Kenya

**Required Experience & Competencies:**

- Diploma in any of the following disciplines: Kenya Registered Community Health Nursing, Kenya Registered Nursing, Kenya Registered Midwifery, Kenya Registered Nursing/Midwifery or Kenya Registered Nursing/Mental Health and Psychiatry 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

- NASCOP Certification in Provision of both adult and pediatric ART, and PMCT is an added advantage

- Ability to work in hardship areas (Previous experience in a Camp setting will be an added advantage)

## Skills

### Required
- HIV/ART management
- eMTCT services
- Nursing
- TB case finding
- IPT
- GeneXpert
- PCR positive validation
- PMTCT reports
- MNCH Working Improvement Teams
- Continuous Professional development

### Nice to have
- NASCOP Certification in Provision of both adult and pediatric ART
- PMCT
- Computer application skills
- Previous experience in a Camp setting

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