Nutrition Counselor(Afghan Female Only)

Medical & Health

Overview

Provide nutrition counseling and screening for children and mothers in community settings

You have:

• Minimum Secondary school Diploma; Nursing or Midwifery Diploma is an advantage.
• At least 1-2 years’ experience in the field of health and nutrition at the community level.
• Fluency in Pashto, Dari, and English.
• Strong communication and reporting skills.
• Ability to work under pressure in a stressful environment.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, Access, and Internet.
• Ability to lead, train, supervise, and facilitate other nursing staff and community health workers.

Job Description

Staff Coordination

- Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions. - Provide nutrition support and mentorship to other mobile clinic staff, providing on-the-job training where needed. - Ensure non-disclosure of any information whatsoever about practices and IRC activities to any other person or organization without permission, except in the normal performance of the service. - Consistently and proactively monitor/assess the safety and security of the team; promptly report concerns or incidents to IRC management and liaise with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for IRC programs.

Objective 1: Screening of all under 5 children and PLW

- Conduct systematic screening of all U5 children (Oedema, MUAC, Height, and Weight) and PLW (MUAC & Oedema) in selected communities. - Maintain and update the screening, OPD-MAM, and OPD-SAM register books on a daily basis - Refer children and PLWs who meet admission or discharge criteria to the nutrition nurse. - Identify children who are absents and defaulted from the program and inform the community volunteers to conduct home visits.

Objective 2: Growth Monitoring all children under 2

- Register and undertake Growth Monitoring and promotion (GMP) including measuring weight, height, and age, and checking edema of all children under two years of age. - conduct GMP-based counseling of mothers/ caregivers of all children under two years of age on appropriate maternal infant and young child nutrition MIYCN practice and infection prevention. - If the child is normal encourage the counsel mother to reinforce and promote age appropriate MIYCN practices. - If a child is suffering from acute malnutrition refer to the nutrition nurse of MHNT or Static Health Facility for giving adequate treatment and counseling. - Counsel mothers or caregivers to bring under two children's children for the continuous monthly GMP visit.

Objective 3: Counseling on maternal infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN)

- Provide individual nutrition counseling on appropriate practices based on the BMI and MUAC findings. - Check whether lactating mothers received adequate IFA tablets during three months after delivery. - If apparently the mothers’ health and nutrition are not suitable refer to the nutrition nurse and medical doctor for diagnosis and treatment. - Check whether the child has received vitamin A supplementation during the previous national immunization day (NID) if not then refer to the doctor and Vaccinator of the Health Center to obtain vitamin A. - Conduct complementary feeding food demonstrations to mothers and caregivers. - Establish Mother to Mother support group. - Provision of IYCF counseling at IYCF corner to mothers and primary caregivers for children under 2. - Identify mothers to become peer educators in their villages and support them to undertake sensitization and work closely with CHWs. - Lead individual and group nutrition counseling sessions tailored to the needs of clients and caregivers. - Train and work with CHWs to ensure consistent messaging regarding best practices for IYCF and

Objective 4: Recording and reporting:

- Maintain regular reports to monitor and track the delivery of nutrition services. - Use the MCH handbook in those provinces where the MCH handbook is applied. - Identify beneficiaries who required follow-up visit and share information with community health volunteers to follow up those beneficiaries. Ensure accurate recording of nutrition information in the clinic registers and timely completion of summary reports.

Qualifications

- Education: - Minimum Secondary school Diploma if having Nursing, Midwifery Diploma is an advantage. - Years of Experience: - At least 1-2 years’ experience in the field of health and nutrition at the community level. - Skills: - Skills to provide sensitive and appropriate counseling and strong communication skills. - Must be a team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work under pressure in a stressful environment, displaying patience, compassion, and diplomacy. - Ability to be innovative, flexible, adaptive, and willing to work out of hours, sometimes throughout the night. - Ability to live in challenging conditions and ability to work under difficult, high-pressure situations. - Ability to lead, train, supervise, and facilitate other nursing staff and community health workers in their respective tasks. - Ability and flexibility to understand the cultural and political environment and to work well with the local health representatives. - Technical Competency: - Communication and reporting skills - Fluency in Pashto, Dari, and English - Computer skills (including MS Word, Excel, Access, and Internet) an advantage. - Ability to work closely, professionally, and constructively with all others regardless of nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion, race, tribe, or cultural background.

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Added 1 year ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: rescue.org