Closing on: 2022-06-09

About The Organization:

Bright Future & Welfare Organization (BFWO) is a Kabul based non-government (NGO), not-for-profit (NPO), independent, civil society organization (CSO) founded by a group of dedicated public health, curative medicine, education, and management experts. It is registered with the Ministry of Economy of Afghanistan under license number 5379, which follows the NGO and other applicable laws of the country, the approved Article of Association (AoA), and donors guidelines. BFWO is an Afghan NGO that operates in the health and education sectors to serve community health promotion, managing and responding to the emerging health crises, public health safety, literacy, and education across Afghanistan. The NGO also works for the development and relief of marginalized communities to achieve social and economic prosperity and improve humanitarian and social capital through delivering health & social, educational & livelihood services, especially to the vulnerable and marginalized societies and communities of Afghanistan.

Objective:

The main purpose of this role is to provide Nutrition (SAM treatment services) to children and pregnant and lactating women at Mobile Health Team in the field to respond effectively to acute needs of crisis and/or conflict affected mother and children and most vulnerable populations or host communities as well as support the team leader in managing team during his absence.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

The MHNT Nurse will be responsible for the below listed tasks in the field:

• Preparedness, coordination and deployment of Nutrition and Health Mobile teams in target province and districts.
• Provision of IMAM services to children under 5 years old and Pregnant and lactating women in the field.
• Provision of treatment for common illnesses/IMNCI amongst under 5 years boys and girls.
• Caregivers and PLWs with children U2 receiving Growth monitoring and MIYCN counselling and care practices activities.
• Provision of sexual and reproductive health services including family planning services for women in reproductive age, ANC/PNC consultations for PLW and referral of pregnant women to hospital for safe delivery.

Treatment Provision for Severe Acute Malnourished Under 5 children:

• Perform screening & Growth monitoring to all U5 children who are visiting MHNT services.
• Classification of all U5 children in categories of well-nourished and Acute Malnutrition (SAM & MAM).
• Admit all acute malnourished children in OPD SAM/MAM programs.
• Provide nutritional treatment to admitted malnourished children according to approved treatment protocols.
• Perform history taking and physical & medical examination including childhood illness of beneficiaries’ during admission time as well during follow up visits.
• Perform appetite test for each admitted patient during admission time and decide for provision of treatment services or refer to higher treatment service.
• Perform anthropometric measurement during follow up visit.
• Ensure nutritional follow up of the beneficiaries.
• Prescribe routine medication to admitted patient during admission time according to approved treatment protocol.
• Identify those beneficiaries who do not respond to the treatment and manage their follow up.
• Check vaccinations of patients and refer them to vaccinator when required.
• Refer severe acutely malnourished beneficiaries with medical complications to higher health centers (IPD – SAM or Pediatric ward) for advance treatment.
• Ensure medical examination at discharge time and validate the discharge upon the status of the beneficiaries;
• Check if all the procedures are completed before discharge (anthropometric measurements, medical and nutritional treatment, systematic treatment, and health and nutrition educations to caretakers).
• Check that the criteria of discharge are met and act according to the approved treatment guidelines.
• Record all the necessary information on the existing reporting’s tools (registration book and card for each beneficiary and etc...)
• Provide health and nutrition educations to the caregivers on breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and hygiene, care of pregnant and lactating women, prevention of illness.

Provide treatment and counselling services on IMNCI to under 5 children when assigned by supervisor or Project Officer:

• Diagnostic and treatment services should be performed based on the validated guidelines.
• Conduct history taking and perform physical examination of sick children.
• Assess the different signs and symptoms for patient diagnosis
• Prescribe the appropriate medication for the patient.
• Determine if this is an initial or follow up visit for this problem.
• Counsel the caretaker and provide them a necessary messages especially on usage of medicine.
• Facilitate the referral for complicated patients with official document for advance treatment to higher health centers.
• Record all necessary information in the existing reporting tools.

Reporting and Documentation:

• Ensure good filing system for MHNT documents and maintain the updating them on timely manner.
• Crosscheck hard copy of all reporting tools and correct if any mistake before submitting the tools to data entry.
• Ensure correct data is provided on weekly and on monthly basis (Review the data with data entry before submitting to Team Leader).
• Support the Team Leader in drafting the monthly and donor reports on monthly basis on when required.
• Support the Team leader in developing success story of the project for donor requirement.
• Provide any other information when necessary (movement/security, logistical and HR related) to line manager.

Preparedness and Operation of MHNTs:

• Ensure availability of MHNT required materials and reporting templets and other related document are prepared for MHNT based on the checklist.
• Before leaving the office ensure all the materials are ready and available (relevant equipment’s, registers, nutritional supplies, medicines…).
• Ensure and keep all items in the field very well before and after the field visit.
• Ensure that all items are clean and prepare all items for use in following day.
• Ensure that all reporting tools, registers are updated on daily basis.
• Support the team leader in preparing the reports (Daily, Weekly and monthly) according to the standard reporting tools.
• Assist line supervisor on performing other duties assigned by the organization

Background/Qualifications:

• At least a bachelor’s degree in Nursing from a reputed institute.
• At least three years’ experience as Nutrition Nurse specially in pediatric unit and OPD or IPD SAM sites.
• Adequate Knowledge in Nutrition, Food Security, WASH and Protection sectors is a plus.
• Experience in team management and supervision is a plus.

Skills and Comptencies Required:

• Good organization, planning and reporting skills are necessary.
• Ability to manage staff & working environment according to local culture
• High flexibility in deployment on the selected area,
• Must be proactive and show initiatives
• Experience on PSS is plus.
• Continuously seeks to learn, share knowledge and innovate
• Fluency in local language, Pashto and Dari (spoken & written).
• Fluency in English language both spoken and written is plus.
• Moderate Computer Skills (MS. Word, Ms. Excel, outlook) is a plus.
• Communication skills.
• Reporting skills .
• Organizational skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with team members, local authorities and community members.

Note: This document is non-contractual and may be modified to reflect the changing needs of the service. As BFWO is working in a constantly changing humanitarian aid environment, reasonable specific work duties may be requested of you that may not fit into the above job description, but will help promote overall program goals and aims of the project and organization.

Submission Guidelines:

Interested and qualified candidates should send the following documents before the closing date (2022-06-09, 12:00 am):

1. Cover letter as body text.
2. CV and Education documents (only school, university, and/or institutes “diploma” graduation document) in one file (pdf or doc) that should not exceed more than 3MB as an attachment.
3. Please do not send/attach your courses certificates and other documents, except the requested ones mentioned above in point 2.