The Main Responsibilities

• Lead basic healthcare and hygiene of children living at children’s home so that children are cared for and supported in the best possible way
• Ensure children’s home environment is safe for all children and staff
• Manage caregivers at Children’s home and build capacity in child protection 
• Liaise between health facilities, children, and different programs for timely service delivery and integration

Detailed Responsibilities

1. Lead basic healthcare and hygiene of children living at children’s home so that children are cared for and supported in the best possible way

• Ensure all clinical practices and medication processes at Children’s home are conducted in line with legislation and children’s home operations guidelines
• Provide basic healthcare to children in case of injury or acute illness
• Develop and monitor health plans for children with chronic illnesses and disabilities
• Create and maintain schedules for activities and routines related to hygiene and wellbeing through educating children and staff on healthy habits, such as proper nutrition and hygiene 
• Make sure that medical supplies are adequate and up to date at all times 
• Detect health problems in early stages through regular screenings
• Conduct screenings and writing referrals for health services 
• Keep track of children’s vaccination records
• Update children’s medical history.

2. Ensure children’s home environment is safe for all children and staff

• Ensure children’s home environment is safe for children and staff (e.g. prevention of communicable diseases)
• Lead to assess child protection risk assessment and develop risk mitigation plans and its implementation 
• Organize events like drills, mock presentations in disaster risk reduction and preparedness 
• Support to develop child protection and safety plan of children’s home and ensure its followed at all time
• Have demonstrated proactive communications and adhere to safety rules and behavior expectations in line with code of conduct and high standards set 

3. Manage caregivers at Children’s home and build capacity in child protection 

• Supervise the work of caregivers at the children’s home on a daily basis and provide continued feedback for delivering quality of care
• Demonstrate discipline from personal behavior, initiate it for the team to demonstrate, and encourage it to flow from the team to the children
• Support caregivers to address any obstacles or challenges they may face
• Evaluate the performance of the home caregivers, and support them in their professional development through orientation and training 

4. Liaise between health facilities, children, and different programs for timely service delivery and integration

• Establish functional working relationship with health facilities and write referrals for pediatricians and other health specialists, including mental health counseling 
• Coordinating with an Enrichment Coordinator, organize classes on enhancing self-esteem, on awareness in mental health through different extracurricular activities like debate, theater and other activities
• Coordinate with different programs to organize learning/sharing activities and document good practices
• Support supervisor to maintain children’s documentation including passport, citizenship, birth certificate and other relevant legal documents
• Ensure compliance with national and local health laws

Additional expectations 

• Take ownership of change and engage and encourage innovation
• Build positive working relationships and environment in the organization by bringing solutions to the discussion table
• Report to the manager on a weekly basis, and as needed in case of urgent activities
• Build and maintain a strong relationship with the children, staff and relevant stakeholders. 
• Attend weekly staff meetings, and share operational updates
• Maintain integrity and confidentiality at all times

The above list of responsibilities is not comprehensive, and the Nursing Officer  may be required to take on additional responsibilities, as determined by your Supervisor.