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Medair is an international humanitarian organization established in 1988. Medair has been operating in Afghanistan since 1996 with programs mainly in the Health, Water & Sanitation, and Livelihoods sectors with significant reconstruction activities in remote areas. Current projects are Water & Sanitation, Food Security, & Disaster Risk Reduction.

An Integrated Emergency Response: Medair aims to respond to high levels of food insecurity, malnutrition, and morbidity in Tirinkot district.  The project intends to improve and extend WASH services including water supply infrastructure and hygiene practices to improve outcomes for vulnerable families.

An Integrated Emergency Response: Medair aims to respond to high levels of food insecurity, malnutrition, and morbidity in Uruzgan, which has been significantly affected by drought and conflict conditions. Building upon Medair’s decades of experience in the Central Highlands and Kandahar, the project intends to improve and extend the utilization of lifesaving preventive and curative nutrition and health services by mothers, PLWs, and children U5; to increase access to clean water, to reduce vulnerability to water-related and other preventable diseases, and to improve and increase food security for the most vulnerable families through food voucher distributions.

Overall purpose: 

To be a member of Health and Nutrition team and provide Health and Nutrition services to targeted communities. The Nutrition Assistant is responsible for screening children under 5 years and Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW) using MUAC tape and counselling following national IMAM, IMIYCN, IMNCI and IYCF guidelines. Activities include nutrition screening at waiting areas, triage of children U5 and PLW and counselling. The Nutrition assistant will help ensure organise and timely patient flow through the BHC clinic, support the to set up the clinic each day and support nursing staff in providing health, hygiene and IYCF messages to pregnant and lactating women and caregivers in the waiting area.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• To work as part of health and nutrition team covering multiple clinic sites.
• To provide triage of children under 5 and nutrition screening for children under 5 and pregnant and lactating women following national guidelines and procedures.
• To ensure accurate record keeping of all activities, following the provided data collection templates.
• To ensure patient flow and the BHC set up.
• Counselling at IMAM and IYCF.
• Any other activities not listed in the JD but requested by line manager.

 Technical:

• Register and undertake Growth Monitoring and Promotion (GPM) including weight, height, age, check edema of all children under two years of age.
• Conduct GMP based counselling of mothers/caregivers of all children under two years of age on appropriate Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) practices and infection prevention.
• Check whether child has received Vitamin A supplementation during the previous NID, if no then refer to the health centre to obtain Vit A.
• Provide health, hygiene and IYCF messages to pregnant and lactating women and caregivers in the waiting area, in accordance with agreed messages.
• Conduct complementary feeding demonstration once per month.
• Screen children under 5 and pregnant and lactating women for acute malnutrition, according to IMAM guidelines.
• Provide individual nutrition counselling on appropriate practices based on BMI and MUAC findings.
• Check whether lactating mothers receive adequate IFA tablets during three months after delivery.
• Maintain and provide regular reports to monitor and track delivery of nutrition  services.
• Triage of children U5, Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLWs) and OPD patients in the waiting area.
• Organise the waiting area, and patient flow through the clinic.
• Support the set up the BHC clinic each day according to the plan.
• Support the nurses in record keeping and distribution of nutrition supplies to beneficiaries.
• Support the waste management in the BHC level according to the waste management guideline.

Quality Management:

• Ensure adherence to the provided protocols and guidelines.
• Ensure accurate record keeping of screening, triage, filling in forms, cards, registration books and tally sheets as required.
• Compile reports as required.
• Ensure anthropometric equipment is handled carefully and regularly checked for accuracy.

Logistics:

• Set up the BHC according to site plan, including clinical stations, handwashing facilities and waste management.
• Ensure that the supplies in BHC level used, stored and recorded efficiently and according to the guidelines.

Education: Minimum 2 years Diploma in Nursing/Midwifery, bachelor's or master’s degree preferred.

Relevant experience:

• At least 2-3 years relevant post graduate experience is required.
• Nutrition training or experience
• IMAM & IYCF training or experience.

Languages: Fluent written and spoken Pashto is required and basic understating of English language is desirable. 

Motivation:

• Ability to work in a team and coordinate tasks and responsibilities.
• Ability to organize people in an orderly way and prioritize tasks.
• Good listening and counselling skills, patient care, and kind attitude.
• Highly motivated to provide high quality services to beneficiaries of poor communities in a challenging setting.
• Good problem-solving skills with a solution-oriented attitude.
• Flexible and willing to perform other tasks as required.
• Respectful and kind with other staff, beneficiaries, and communities.
• Willingness to travel, work and live in a rural setting, and to behave in a manner appropriate to the culture.
• Willingness to learn and develop further.
• Transparent in dealing with beneficiaries and Medair staff.
• Honest and dependable, with strong anti-fraud principles and high level of integrity.

Interested applicants should apply and forward their applications through the online JOB APPLICATION FORM which can be found under the submission email. The link should be copied, pasted, and opened on a new page.

Note: Please indicate the position title and vacancy number in your application letter. Applications received after the closing date or without the exact position title and vacancy number will not be given consideration. After submitting the online application, if some applicants do not immediately receive an automatic email from Medair, they shouldn't worry about their submission. When you open the link. please use the dropdown menu and choose the title of the position.

https://form.123formbuilder.com/5821821/medair-announcement-nutrition-counsellor-uzg-25