Overall, Job Purpose

The successful candidate will be responsible of administration of safe anaesthesia during surgical, therapeutic, diagnostic, and obstetric procedures.

Key Accountabilities

• Participate in elective and emergency theatre work and provide a high degree of input into high care and obstetric services and cover on call after hours.
• Lease with the pre-clerking nurses regarding patients who will require postoperative critical care and to carry out the pre-operative visits to evaluate and prepare patients for anaesthesia, providing education about surgery and recovery, and discussing the side effects of anaesthesia with them.
• Determine the amount and type of anaesthesia needed for the patient and the best way to administer it.
• Administer anaesthesia to patients to keep patients asleep or pain-free during surgery, according to hospital policy.
• Monitor and maintain patients' vital signs and their dose of anaesthesia during surgical procedures.
• Oversee and manage patients' safety during anaesthesia recovery.
• Provide follow-up care to patients transferred to high care ward areas.
• Work with a multi-professional team in the wards and emergency room in response to patients requiring critical care or resuscitation and provide expert emergency response intervention and support.
• Pursue strategies to continually improve workflow efficiencies, quality of services, patient satisfaction and staff/patient safety in theatre, emergency room and ambulance services
• Participate in continuous quality improvement activities as required by the hospital.
• Adhere to the infection and control (IPC) standard operating procedures including autoclaving/sterilizing of instruments and good housekeeping
• Collaborate with the medical team on patient case management (i.e., consultation, prescribing and dispensing of medication), where applicable and in line with stipulated country regulations
• Maintain confidentiality in matters related to patient, family and medical facility staff.
• Participate in on-call emergency theatre coverage at the hospital
• Conducting delivery and giving health education to pregnant women at labor and RCH clinic.

Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelor's degree or Diploma in Nursing and Midwife
• Post Basic qualification in Nurse Anaesthetist
• Minimum of 3 years relevant work experience in obstetrics and trauma anaesthesia
• Registration with relevant professional health body with valid nursing practicing license

• Participate in elective and emergency theatre work and provide a high degree of input into high care and obstetric services and cover on call after hours.
• Lease with the pre-clerking nurses regarding patients who will require postoperative critical care and to carry out the pre-operative visits to evaluate and prepare patients for anaesthesia, providing education about surgery and recovery, and discussing the side effects of anaesthesia with them.
• Determine the amount and type of anaesthesia needed for the patient and the best way to administer it.
• Administer anaesthesia to patients to keep patients asleep or pain-free during surgery, according to hospital policy.
• Monitor and maintain patients' vital signs and their dose of anaesthesia during surgical procedures.
• Oversee and manage patients' safety during anaesthesia recovery.
• Provide follow-up care to patients transferred to high care ward areas.
• Work with a multi-professional team in the wards and emergency room in response to patients requiring critical care or resuscitation and provide expert emergency response intervention and support.
• Pursue strategies to continually improve workflow efficiencies, quality of services, patient satisfaction and staff/patient safety in theatre, emergency room and ambulance services
• Participate in continuous quality improvement activities as required by the hospital.
• Adhere to the infection and control (IPC) standard operating procedures including autoclaving/sterilizing of instruments and good housekeeping
• Collaborate with the medical team on patient case management (i.e., consultation, prescribing and dispensing of medication), where applicable and in line with stipulated country regulations
• Maintain confidentiality in matters related to patient, family and medical facility staff.
• Participate in on-call emergency theatre coverage at the hospital
• Conducting delivery and giving health education to pregnant women at labor and RCH clinic.

• Bachelor's degree or Diploma in Nursing and Midwife
• Post Basic qualification in Nurse Anaesthetist
• Minimum of 3 years relevant work experience in obstetrics and trauma anaesthesia
• Registration with relevant professional health body with valid nursing practicing license