Submit Your Application Today! Save the Children Nigeria — Stabilization Centre Nurse (2025)
Submit Your Application Today! Save the Children Nigeria — Stabilization Centre Nurse (2025)
About Save the Children
Save the Children is a global humanitarian organization dedicated to improving the lives of children in need. Operating in over 100 countries worldwide, we focus on child protection, health, nutrition, and education. In Nigeria, Save the Children provides life-saving services to children and families affected by conflict, displacement, and natural disasters. Our work aims to ensure that every child survives, learns, and is protected. We strongly uphold values of accountability, collaboration, integrity, creativity, and ambition, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation across all programs.
Role Purpose
The Stabilization Centre (SC) Nurse plays a critical role in providing clinical and nutritional care for children with complicated cases of severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Working in close collaboration with SC doctors, the nurse ensures the delivery of high-quality nursing services, proper documentation, patient monitoring, and adherence to national and Save the Children protocols for SAM management. This role is vital in supporting the operational functionality of the SC and contributing to overall program impact.
The SC Nurse also actively contributes to capacity-building initiatives, mentoring program staff, and ensuring that health and nutrition interventions meet the highest standards. The post holder ensures child safeguarding standards are integrated into all aspects of care and program delivery, thereby contributing to a safe, accountable, and high-quality service for children.
Key Areas of Accountability
1. Programme Implementation
- Admit and assess children entering the SC according to established criteria.
- Deliver high-quality nursing care for children with complicated SAM cases.
- Stabilize critical patients collaboratively with the SC doctor and team.
- Monitor patient progress across Phase 1, transition phase, and Phase 2, ensuring alignment with national and SCI protocols.
- Document all nursing and clinical activities accurately and maintain patient records, monitoring charts, and clinical files.
- Mentor dieticians, caregivers, and mothers on appropriate care and adherence to SC protocols.
- Ensure efficient use and documentation of medical supplies, medicines, and nutrition-related commodities.
- Assist in preparing weekly, monthly, and ad hoc reports for program management.
2. Programme Documentation
- Support accurate and timely data collection for quantitative and qualitative reports.
- Maintain records for monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) purposes.
- Contribute to weekly and monthly operational reports, highlighting clinical outcomes, challenges, and best practices.
- Ensure proper record-keeping for medications, nutrition supplies, and consumables used in patient care.
3. Representation and Stakeholder Engagement
- Represent the SC at nutrition-related meetings, workshops, and seminars.
- Build strong relationships with Borno State Ministry of Health, Hospital Management Board, UNICEF, and other partner organizations.
- Share knowledge and learning from SC programs with partners to strengthen overall nutrition response in the state.
- Ensure collaboration with local authorities and other NGOs for integrated child health and nutrition interventions.
4. Child Safeguarding
- Promote a culture of child safeguarding throughout the SC.
- Ensure all staff, partners, and caregivers are aware of their responsibilities regarding child protection.
- Report and respond to any child safeguarding concerns promptly and appropriately.
- Integrate child safeguarding standards into all nursing and programmatic activities.
5. Skills and Behaviours (Values in Practice)
- Accountability: Take responsibility for decisions, resource use, and achieving results aligned with SCI values.
- Ambition: Set high personal and professional goals, encourage team development, and contribute to strategic program improvements.
- Collaboration: Build and maintain effective relationships within the team, with partners, and with stakeholders.
- Creativity: Innovate in clinical care, program implementation, and problem-solving approaches.
- Integrity: Demonstrate transparency, honesty, and ethical conduct in all interactions.
6. Qualification and Experience
Essential Qualifications:
- Degree or Diploma in Nursing from an accredited Nigerian university.
- Valid nursing practice license in Nigeria.
Experience:
- Minimum of two years post-graduation experience in health or public health programs.
- Experience as an SC Nurse and in managing SAM cases.
- Exposure to community-based nutrition programs and emergency programming is an asset.
- Experience with INGOs is preferred.
Skills:
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and mentorship skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Commitment to gender equity, child rights, and community empowerment.
- Ability to plan, organize, and manage multiple tasks effectively.
7. Additional Job Responsibilities
- Participate in additional duties as requested by the Line Manager within reasonable scope of experience and role.
- Ensure compliance with SCI policies on child protection, health and safety, and equal opportunities.
- Support emergency response activities and contribute to SC’s humanitarian interventions in the region.
8. Health and Safety
- Adhere to all SCI health and safety policies.
- Maintain a safe environment for staff, patients, and caregivers.
- Report and manage any health or safety risks in the SC promptly.
9. Equal Opportunities
- Ensure compliance with SCI’s Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies.
- Promote inclusive programming that values diversity, equity, and gender sensitivity.
- Support the integration of child safeguarding and protection policies across all SC activities.
10. Reporting
- Reports directly to the SC Doctor.
- Collaborates closely with Nutrition, Health, and MEAL teams.
- Provides inputs into program reports, assessments, and evaluations.
- Supports internal and donor reporting as required.
11. Competencies
- Strong clinical judgment and decision-making in high-pressure situations.
- Ability to mentor and coach junior staff and caregivers.
- Knowledge of international and national guidelines for the management of SAM.
- Effective time management, planning, and organizational skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; fluency in Kanuri and Hausa is an advantage.
12. Organizational Context
Save the Children operates globally to protect children, improve health and nutrition, ensure education, and prevent exploitation and abuse. In Nigeria, our programs focus on children affected by conflict, malnutrition, and displacement. The SC Nurse will contribute to these objectives by ensuring the highest standards of clinical care, program accountability, and child safeguarding.
This role is a national position, requiring a Nigerian national who can contribute to strengthening Save the Children’s impact on child health and nutrition in Borno state. The SC Nurse plays a key role in bridging clinical expertise, program delivery, and community engagement.
13. How to Apply
Interested candidates are invited to submit a cover letter and updated CV as a single document through the Save the Children Nigeria careers portal:
Candidates should include details of current remuneration and salary expectations. Only applications received before the closing date will be considered. Rigorous child safeguarding checks will be conducted to ensure compliance with SCI policies.
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