Vacancies: Aunties, Senior Nursing Sister and Nursing Sister
Established in 1973 SOS Children’s Villages, Nigeria is an independent, non-governmental. non-political, social development organization, an affiliate of SOS-Kinderdorf International. SOS Children’s Villages Nigerian focuses on the child’s development into a self supporting and contributing member of the larger society We strongly believe that a child’s development to his full potentials is best realised in a caring family environment Our programme interventions are as follows. Direct essential services to children of our target group; Capacity building interventions, and Advocacy. SOS Children’s Villages in Nigeria is looking for suitable qualified and committed professionals to fill the positions below
Position: Aunties
Location: (Jos & Lagos)
Position Summary
- The Aunties support Mothers in caring for the children entrusted to them and relieve the Mothers as occasion demands
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- She is expected to possess a minimum of Senior Secondary School Certificate with good oral and written communication. She should have natural love for children and tolerance, with good housekeeping skills. She must be caring and caring and demonstrate respectful attitude towards children.
Position: Senior Nursing Sister and Nursing Sister
Position Summary
- The Nurses work in the Village is to create an environment that promotes health living, as well as responding to the needs of individual children and staff. Provides preventive health services to facilitate the children’s optimal physical, mental, emotional, social growth and development. She provides confidential health services for individual children/staff and also supports, advises, counsels and refers children experiencing mental health challenges, such as depression and critical health conditions
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- The candidates must be a registered Nurse/Midwife (SRN/SCM) with public health experience and possess a minimum of 5/3 years cognate working experience respectively in providing and coordinating primary health care services, designing and facilitating programmes on nutrition, reproductive health and family planning and other related issues,
Requirements:
- Ability to provide and coordinate primary health care services.
- Diagnosing of patients with the necessary investigations
- Attend to emergency cases at any time and report to Senior Nursing Sister
- Explain health problems, treatment and give advice to all patients, also to SOS mothers on their children and youths.
- Follow-up of out-patient cases and hospital admissions and give feedback to the respective project head
- Keep up-to-date records of patients.
- Ability to design programmes on Healthcare, Nutrition HIV/AIDS and other relevant issues,
- Ability to write personal action plan
How to apply:
If you want a challenging career while impacting the lives of children in Nigeria, we would like to hear from you. If you meet the above stated requirements, EMAIL your Resume along with a Cover Letter stating your motivation for applying for this position to:
The National Director
SOS Children’s Villages Nigeria
National Office
35, Ogunmefun Street, Pedro, Palmgrove,
P.O. Box 660 Shomolu,
Lagos, Nigeria
Email to: info@sosvillages-nigeria.org
Application Deadline: 20th March 2011
