Job: Senior Nursing Officer

Location: Arua, Lira and Moroto

Deadline: November 22, 2013 - 4pm

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manages and accounts for all allocated resources.
• Plays a supervisory role in the provision of nursing care.
• Submits timely requests for essential equipment’s and supplies.
• Ensures equipment is secure, functional and well maintained.
• Participates in research activities.
• Imparts knowledge and skills to the staff supervised.
• Ensures that staff adheres to Professional Code of Conduct and Ethics.
• Counsels Blood Donors before and after blood donations.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience:

• The applicant must be double trained at a Registered Level or its equivalent from a recognized institution;
• Member of the Nurses and Midwives Council and should have served at least three (3) years as a Nursing Officer.
• The ideal candidate should demonstrate flexibility to adapt to changing requirements and analytical skills
• Excellent people management skills and culturally sensitive.

Contact/How to apply: 

All suitably qualified candidates can address applications with curriculum vitae, names of three professional referees, copies of certified academic documents, telephone/email contact to:
The Interim Secretary General,
Uganda Red Cross Society,
P.O. Box 494, Rubaga Road,
Plot 551/555,
Kampala, Uganda.

Due to large volumes of applications; only short listed candidates shall be contacted. Canvassing shall lead to automatic disqualification