Company Nurse

To attend to staff in need of medical attention, promote health awareness campaigns at the farm and support health and safety initiatives and protocols to ensure a healthy workforce.The scope of your duties will include curative, preventive, patient referral and promotion of health through talks and training.

Responsibilities

You will carry out the following duties and responsibilities:

• Attend to the medical needs of employees with regards to sickness and work injuries (Curative, preventive, counselling among others) dispensing drugs appropriately.
• Maintain accurate digital records on all patients, dispensing of drugs and treatments
• Refer patients to approved medical service providers for review and further management.
• Ensure good housekeeping in the clinic and its environs at all times.
• Issue monthly medical reports to relevant stakeholders giving statistics such as number of patients, types of ailments, number and types of drugs dispensed among others for decision making
• Issue monthly medical report to the relevant stakeholders giving information on rehabilitation efforts for workers on light duty and initiatives taken to assist injured workers
• Provide ante-natal care for employees and advise the business appropriately for planning purposes.
• Monitor and replenish drugs to maintain adequate stock levels and notify on the drug price changes.
• Organize and conduct preventive health programs to enhance employee wellness.
• Provide data to the business for preparation of the clinic budget and to control the operating costs within the authorized budget.
• Maintain clinic files and correspondences to ensure information is readily available and in accordance with medico-legal requirements
• Coordinate Company Health & Safety campaigns in liaison with HSE Coordinator, conducting site visits and advising management accordingly.
• Ensure that all procedures are followed in case of work injury and that all relevant forms are appropriately filed for notification and appropriate actions.
• Compile and maintain accident and injury registers
• Follow ups on admitted staff to check their progress and advise management accordingly
• Organizes for statutory medical tests including periodic cholinesterase tests as per HSE policy, legal and Company Doctors recommendations.
• Attends Gender, First Aid, HIV&AIDS and Health and Safety committee meetings

Syngenta is a Global Agribusiness Company with its headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. We are a market leader in the breeding and production of Seeds and Cuttings for high-quality pot and bedding plants. In Kenya, we have two production Sites; Kenya Cuttings Limited based in Thika, and Pollen Limited based in Ruiru.

Critical knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Diploma in Nursing.
• Registered Nurse in Kenya
• 5 year’s progressive experience in managing a dispensary or health centre.
• Sound knowledge on general administration.
• Person who is sensitive to employees’ feelings and able to keep matters confidential.
• Ability to exhibit patience and tolerance.
• Experience working in a production environment, able to think and act practically. Must be able to engage Production Managers and find work for rehabilitating patients.
• Be the conduit between the treating doctor and/or specialists and the company and patient.
• Understand legal documents concerning WIBA, following up of cases and coordinating with Human Resources.

Critical Skills and Behaviours:

• Good knowledge on clinical diagnosis and drug administration.
• Well-developed and proven communication, listening, Organizational and people management skills.
• Computer literacy in MS office applications with a working knowledge of excel.
• Mature person and team player, that knows how to navigate colleagues of different, levels, ages and qualifications
• Person of proven integrity.
• Possess counselling skills. Show initiative and be proactive.

Essential Syngenta Competencies

• Innovative

• Offer support to the line managers in challenging and improving the current way of doings things to increase labour productivity and efficiency.

• Decisive

• Demonstrate ability to take prudent action with little oversight.

• Communicative

• Demonstrates openness in communication to others, able to communicate to general workers in a language they can understand, listens well and incorporates the thoughts and ideas of others.

• Trusted

• Track record for building trust and reliability to deliver required results.

• Team-oriented

• Ability to work in a team of other managers keeping in minds the overall company objectives.

• Results-oriented

• Ability to deliver required results and support.

   

Critical success factors and key challenges.

• Maintain medical cost as low as possible without compromising on the quality of medical care.
• Comply with legal and professional requirements on patient health management.
• Effective management of employee’s safety and health.
• Proper and accurate record maintenance of employees’ medical records on pro soft.
• Carry out trainings on health matters, HSE issues and family life.
• Be able to provide appropriate and timely feedback.
• Sound knowledge on general administration.
• Computer literacy a must.
• Be willing and able to present findings and trends to management with appropriate solutions.