Job Description

POSITION: LOCUM INFECTION PREVENTION OFFICER

Location: ABUJA, LAGOS, BENIN, PORT-HARCOURT

Objectives:

As an Infection Prevention Officer at MSIN, your role is essential in ensuring the cleanliness, hygiene, and infection prevention within the clinic premises. Your responsibilities include maintaining overall neatness, cleanliness, and proper disposal of waste, supporting the clinical team in infection prevention practices, managing medical stock, sterilizing instruments, and promoting a welcoming and professional atmosphere for clients. Your organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to work as a team member are crucial in carrying out these duties effectively. Experience in a healthcare environment and strong client interaction skills are advantageous. By upholding high standards of infection prevention, you contribute to the safe and quality delivery of reproductive health services at MSI.

Overall Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities as Locum Infection Prevention Officer shall include;

• Ensuring overall neatness and cleanliness of the entire office premises, its surroundings, client care areas and always used medical equipment.
• Encouraging a commitment to accommodate clients' special needs such as flexibility on working hours, strict privacy, and confidentiality to support demand for MSI Nigeria services.
• Ensuring proper management and disposal of both general and medical waste.
• Supporting the clinical team in providing approved services requiring infection prevention.
• Supporting, when necessary, with maintaining medical stock/drug inventory and order register
• Ensuring all clinical instruments are washed, sterilised, and stored properly in an approved manner.
• Ensuring all the clinic beddings, robes, drapes are properly washed and stored
• Running errands, including banking of daily income for the Clinic, when necessary.
• Promoting and maintaining a welcoming, friendly, professional, and efficient atmosphere towards all clients always
• Carrying out any other lawful duties assigned by the Centre Coordinator.
• Assist with administrative work within limits when necessary

KEY EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATION

• Candidate must have at least basic education to be able to read and write in English.
• Candidate should possess organisational skills, initiatives, and courtesy.
• Candidate should exhibit capacity to work as a team member.
• Experience of working in a healthcare environment would be an added advantage.
• Good exhibition of client-interaction skill
• Good written and verbal communication skill
• Ability to pay attention to barest details