Nutrition Counselor ( Afghan National Only)

Medical & Health

Overview

Provide nutrition support and counsel individuals in need.

You have:

• Secondary school Diploma or equivalent is required.
• Nursing Diploma or qualification is an advantage but not required.
• 2+ years of relevant work experience is needed.
• Skills to provide sensitive and appropriate counselling are required.
• Strong communication skills are necessary.
• Must be a team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under pressure in a stressful environment is required.
• Ability to be innovative, flexible, and adaptive is important.
• Ability to live in challenging conditions is necessary.
• Communication and reporting skills are essential.
• Fluency in Pashto, Dari, and English is required.
• Computer skills (including MS Word, Excel, Access, and internet) are an advantage.

Job Description

General Duties

Staff Coordination

- Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and provide 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 reporting concerns or incidents to IRC management and liaising with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for IRC programs.

Specific

- Screen all children and pregnant and lactating women for acute malnutrition using MUAC and refer those who meet the referral criteria for health care services - Take height and weight measurements - Lead individual and group nutrition counseling sessions tailored to the needs of clients and caregivers - Ensure adherence to infection prevention and control measures. - Ensure accurate recording of nutrition information in the clinic registers, and timely completion of summary reports. - Identify mothers to become peer educators in their villages, and to support them to undertake sensitization and work closely with CHWs - Train and work with CHWs to ensure consistent messaging regarding best practices for IYCF and CMAM - Work with CHWs to Providing ongoing follow-up, basic motivational interviewing, and goal setting with patients/families

Qualifications

- Education: Secondary school Diploma or equivalent - Nursing Diploma or qualification an advantage but not required - Years of Experience: 2+ years of relevant work experience - Skills: Skills to provide sensitive and appropriate counselling, strong communication skills. - Must be a team player with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure in a stressful environment, displaying patience, compassion, and diplomacy. - Ability to be innovative, flexible, adaptive, and willingness 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 3 years ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: rescue.org