Registered Nurse and Community Health Worker at Clafiya

Are you a Registered Nurse or Community Health Worker seeking to make an addition income by providing on demand primary healthcare services? Then Clafiya is looking for you!

Clafiya is a health tech company that provides on-demand primary healthcare services to patients when and where they need it!

Clafiya has multiple openings for a certified CHW/CHO or Nurse to join our team. In this role, you will work closely with our Health Coordinator and Operations Manager to provide on-demand care.  (Enugu and Lagos state applicants only)

Responsibilities

The key responsibilities includes but are not limited to;

• Provide quality care for patients in their homes, place of work, schools, etc.

• Health assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and coordination of care for patients across the healthcare continuum involving families.

• Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.

• Perform patient assessment using appropriate, problem-focused, and age-specific assessment techniques.

• Analyze the assessment data, derive health interventions, set priorities according to patients needs, formulate a plan of care, implement and evaluate the outcome.

• Treat patients and families with care and respect while maintaining patient privacy and confidentiality.

• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional and psychological support to patients, friends, and families

• Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand the condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions

• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel

• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations

• Adheres to regulatory and organizational standards affecting patient care and safety

• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.

• Stays current and complies with state and federal regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the employees area of responsibility.

• Ensures all certifications and/or licenses are up-to-date and valid prior to expiration date

• Maintains timely and accurate documentation of assessments, interventions, vital entries, and patient responses.

• Responsible for reporting any safety related incident in a timely fashion; attends all safety related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.

Required Skills 

• Must have at least 3-5 years of postgraduate nursing or community health experience in an accredited University Teaching, Federal Medical Centre, Private hospitals or International hospital.

• Must have excellent patient management and communication skills

• Must be able to plan and perform daily activities in an organized manner.

• Must be kind, compassionate, dedicated and have great attention to detail 

• Must be able to think critically in adapting to change, judging situations and taking appropriate decisions.

• Must be able to review, analyze and respond to the different situations they encounter daily.

• Strong computer literacy skills

• Knowledge and skills to stabilize trauma patients prior to transport to a higher level of care - strongly desired.

Certifications and Licensures 

• Active, valid, RN license (Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria) or CHW/CHO certification and license (Community Health Practitioners Board of Nigeria) to practice in Nigeria

• Bachelor's Degree of Nursing from an accredited Nursing College or University.