Professional Nurse at Marie Stopes South Africa

Duties:

• The clinical service professional nurse role is to ensure high quality standards are maintained in all aspects of clinical and customer service delivery
• She/he forms an integral part of the clinical team and ensures that services are client centred, safe, effective and efficient
• She/he is responsible and accountable for the provision of clinical services at a MSSA Centre
• Ensures that all relevant and current MSI’s policies and guidelines are implemented at all service delivery sites
• Ensures the clinical services follow all current MSI protocols
• Service Provision
• Attending to client’s needs, giving professional counselling, and dispensing of full range of contraceptives and antibiotics
• Maintain record keeping of all clients seen

Stock Management

• Ensure record keeping of stock is up to date and accurate and that proper stock levels are maintained
• Management of stock bins
• Ensure monthly physical stock count and timely submission stock report

Finances – Petty Cash

• Be responsible for the management of petty cash by ensuring that the minimum float is maintained
• Be responsible for requesting replenishment of petty cash
• Daily banking of cash as per MSSA policy by close of business each day
• Oversee cash collection by cash in transit company
• Conduct end of shift cash/bank reconciliation and send to Finance Department

Maintaining Cleanliness and IP Standards at Healthcare Unit (HCU)

• Ensure that the centre is kept neat and hygienically clean at all times:
• Maintenance of a cleaning schedule
• Cleaning the toilets as often as needed to ensure clean at all times
• Mopping the floors daily at close of shift and ongoing during the day as required disinfectants on all horizontal clinic surfaces
• Procedure room is damp dusted on a daily basis. Insides of cupboards cleaned weekly low risk areas, high risk areas, and toilets
• Procedure table is sprayed and wiped with disinfectant between clients
• Make sure that the laundry is done daily (washing, drying and ironing) so that there is always fresh linen available
• Washing of dishes as necessary
• Cleaning the kitchen surfaces and cupboards
• JOB AIDS are present in instrument processing area on different stages of instrument processing and when protocols are updated they are replaced timeously
• Assist in Emergency Management and participate in MEM (Medical Emergency Management) Drills
• Sterilization of instruments, daily and weekly maintenance of autoclave and the autoclave tape must visibly indicate that the autoclaving has bee successful
• Proper use of antiseptics & disinfectants
• Maintenance of a waste management plan
• Clinical waste and general waste us segregated and stored in different disposal areas