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Project profile
Project title: Bienfait Project
Location of the project: Karongi District, Western Province
Closing date: January 12, 2022
Background
Research for Development (RD Rwanda) is a non-profit organization (NGO) created in 2017. It is located in Kigali City, Gasabo District, Remera Sector; Nyarutarama Cell, Po Box: 6174 Kigali-Rwanda.
RD Rwanda is engaged in a range of projects and activities in the field of research on disease control and prevention, education; health programs, economic development initiatives, women empowerment, and support for children and adolescents with disabilities.
It is against this background that RD Rwanda has received a fund from 1000 Hügel e.V., Germany to implement the project called “Bienfait Project” which aims to support health care for children and adolescents with disabilities through mobile teams so that they can access diagnosis, treatment, and assistive devices despite their immobility and lack of infrastructure in Karongi District. RD Rwanda wishes to recruit self-motivated and qualified people of high integrity to fill the following position:
5. Nurse Counselor (1)
Report to: General Medical Officer
Roles and responsibilities
- Provide counseling to children with disabilities;
- Keep confidential records of children with disabilities and their parents or guardians;
- Build a relationship of trust and respect with children with disabilities;
- Listen to children’s concerns, empathize with them and help them to see things more clearly or in a different way;
- Observe and interpret children’s symptoms and communicate them to physicians;
- Collaborate with doctors to devise individualized care plans for children with disabilities;
- Educate children with disabilities and their parents/guardians on prevention and healthy habits;
- Monitor children with disabilities’ condition and assess their needs to provide the best possible care and advice;
- Travel to remote villages of Karongi District to visit children with disabilities and accompany them in their development.
Basic Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in Psychology or mental health with a background in nursing;
- Valid nursing license;
- A Proven experience as a professional Nurse Counselor;
- A team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
- Excellent knowledge of nursing care methods and procedures;
- Proven experience in developing effective treatment plans; experience in care and treatment;
- Good time management skills;
- Patient with excellent problem-solving skills;
- Having worked with children with disability will be an added value.
How to apply?
All interested and qualified candidates who fulfill the requirements set here-in should submit an updated résumé, degrees, certificates and a copy of National Identity accompanied with a cover letter addressed to the Director of Administration and Finance of RD Rwanda in one document to the email address: rdrwanda@gmail.com not later than January 12, 2022 at 5:00 pm Kigali time. For further information, please contact Paul Harorimana, Project Administrator, on his mobile phone: 0788457933.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for exam/interview.
Pascal UWIMANA
Director of Administration and Finance
Done in Kigali on January 5, 2022
