JCM

Registered Nurse – 2 Posts

Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: Diploma
Experience: 2 years
Location: Homa Bay
Job Field: Medical/Healthcare

Key Responsibilities:

1. Develop an efficient day-to-day community engagement plan with facility-based data collectors, including work plans and support supervision.
2. Coordinate and support data collection of end-of-pregnancy Case Record Forms (CRFs) at maternity and post-natal clinics.
3. Coordinate home visits with field workers and community health promoters to collect missing end-of-pregnancy assessment data for home deliveries.
4. Review and develop study CRFs and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), ensuring standardized methods are used.
5. Train and supervise data clerks supporting health facilities.
6. Ensure facility-level recruitment progresses as planned and predict changes that warrant adjustments in recruitment strategies to meet study enrollment timelines.
7. Train and support ANC staff on using Kenya EMRs and ensure study-specific variables are well-captured.
8. Liaise with stakeholders to ensure data linkage between Kenya EMR and eCHIS for trial participants is well-captured.
9. Monitor and evaluate participant recruitment, retention, and data completeness in collaboration with facility-level data clerks, taking immediate remedial action when required.
10. Maintain excellent relationships with community health promoters, ANC staff, study participants, and their communities.
11. Ensure adherence to regulatory and ethical requirements, study protocols, and administrative requirements among field data clerks and community health volunteers.
12. Ensure accurate documentation of project activities and provide training and ongoing monitoring of field activities.
13. Work with the project team on the development of project documentation.
14. Organize monitoring of the study and address queries raised by the study data manager, internal monitors, trial manager, and co-investigators.
15. Work closely with the data team, field data clerks, and trial manager to ensure field data is received promptly and is of high quality.

Requirements:

1. Fluency in English and Kiswahili.
2. Proficient in computer application skills.
3. Willingness to reside within the study site.
4. Diploma in Kenya Registered Community Health Nursing, Nursing, Kenya Registered Midwifery, Nursing/Midwifery, Nursing/Mental Health and Psychiatry, or any other equivalent qualification from a recognized institution.
5. Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
6. Interpersonal skills.
7. Minimum experience of two years of direct patient contact in a hospital setting.
8. Minimum experience using hospital EMRs.
9. Must have a valid Practising License from Nursing Council of Kenya.

Method of Application: Interested and qualified candidates can apply through Kenya Medical Research – KEMRI’s eRecruitment portal before 31st December 2023.