Short-Term Staff / Nursing and Hygiene Assistant - Headquarter at African Development Bank - AfDB

Position Number: 50110968
Position Grade: GS4

The Complex

• The People and Talent Management Vice-Presidency (PTVP) ensures the delivery of efficient, people-focused, and customer-oriented corporate services to guarantee overall corporate effectiveness in all aspects of the Bank's corporate services.
• The Complex spearheads efforts to ensure the Bank's competitiveness as an employer of choice.
• It is responsible for providing operational leadership in the formulation and implementation of the Bank's strategies in people management, information technology, corporate general services and procurement, language services, business continuity, health and safety.

The Hiring Department

• The overall objective of the Medical Services and Employee Welfare Division is to make the Bank an employer of choice by offering staff members the most favourable and healthy working environment possible.
• Its mission is to lead the transformation of the Bank's occupational health and medical services and to strengthen health promotion, prevention strategies, and comprehensive interventions to protect, preserve, and promote the health and well-being of all staff members - healthy lifestyles for all.

The position

• The Nursing and Hygiene Assistant will ensure and maintain the high hygiene standards of the medical center and its environment by:  disinfecting daily the doctors' and nurses' consulting rooms, the emergency room, the laboratory, the pharmacy, reception, etc.
• He/she will also assist the doctors and nurses in providing care by applying dressings, taking vital signs etc. 

Key Functions

Under the general supervision and guidance of the Chief Medical Officer, the Nursing and Hygiene Assistant will assume the following functions:

• Warmly welcome, inform and support patients;
• Provide hygiene and comfort care to patients;
• Assist the clinical team (doctors & nurses) in providing care;
• Ensure the maintenance and hygiene of the immediate environment:
  • Consultation rooms, emergency room, patient observation rooms, etc.;
  • Medical Centre toilets.
• Supervise the work of the Medical Centre's cleaning staff.
• Maintain care equipment:
  • Prepare medical equipment (trays, kidney dishes, instrument trays, etc.).
  • Decontaminate medical equipment (examination tables, patient beds, treatment trolley, etc.);
  • Disinfect and sterilize medical equipment.
• Ensure that the infirmary and emergency rooms are supplied with absorbent cotton rolls, disinfectant wipes, antiseptic gels, liquid soaps, aerial disinfectant sprays, etc.;
• Manage stocks (antiseptic gels, disinfectant wipes, liquid soaps, aerial disinfectant sprays, etc.);
• Supervise daily cleaning and disinfection of ambulances (before and after use)
• Manage the Medical Centre's storage areas (organization, maintenance, etc.).
• Participate in therapeutic patient education.
• Perform any other duties associated with the position, as required.

Compentencies (skills, experience, and knowledge)

• Holder of a BTS/DUT or Professional Aptitude Certificate (C.A.P.) for Nursing Assistant or any other equivalent diploma;
• Demonstrate at least three (3) years of experience as a Nursing and Hygiene Assistant;
• Ensure strict adherence to patient confidentiality;
• Motivated and diligent, welcoming, discreet and empathetic towards patients, etc.
• Organized, rigorous, proactive and reactive.
• Ability to work in a team and demonstrate flexibility and adaptability.
• Good written and oral communication skills in French and/or English, with a working knowledge of the other language;
• Good knowledge of standard Microsoft Office Suite applications (Word, Excel).
• Immediate availability.