Requisition ID: req59033 Job Title: Community Nutrition Nurse (National Female Only) Sector: Health Employment Category: Regular Employment Type: Full-Time Open to Expatriates: No Location: Kunduz, Afghanistan Work Arrangement: 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. Main Responsibilities Objective 1: Provide Treatment services for acute malnourish Under 5 children and PLW. + Perform screening & promotion to all U5 children who are visiting HFs/MNTs services. + Classification of all U5 children in categories of well-nourished and Acute Malnutrition (SAM & MAM). + Enrolment of all acute malnourished children to OPD SAM/MAM programs. + Provide nutritional treatment to enrolled malnourished children according to IMAM 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 tests for each admitted patient during admission time and decide on the provision of treatment services or refer to higher treatment services. + Perform anthropometric measurements during follow-up visits. + Ensure nutritional follow-up of the beneficiaries. + Prescribe routine medication to admitted patients during admission time according to the approved treatment protocol. + Identify those beneficiaries who do not respond to the treatment and manage their follow-up. + Refer severely acutely malnourished beneficiaries with medical complications to higher health centers (IPD – SAM or Podiatric ward) for advanced 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 education 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 tools (registration book and card for each beneficiary etc...) + Provide health and nutrition education to the caregivers on breastfeeding, complementary feeding, hygiene, care of pregnant and lactating women, and prevention of illness. Objective 2: Prepare all the material /Reporting tools and documentation. + Before leaving the office ensure all the material is ready and active (relevant equipment, registers, nutritional supplies, medicines…). + Keep all items in the field very well and after the field visit, clean and prepare the use in the coming day. + Update all reporting tools daily. + Keep and maintain a good filing system for all documents. + Prepared the reports (Daily, Weekly, and monthly) according to the standard reporting tools. + Assist line supervisor in performing other duties assigned by the organization. Objective 3: Support the counselor on Infant Young Child Feeding (IYCF) counseling: + Promote breastfeeding skills by spreading relevant 1000 days of life messages to mothers and caretakers. + Provide Key IYCF messages to the mothers and caretakers during the performing of GMP to under 2 years of children. + Organize group sessions on basic/key messages on 1000 days of life to caretakers who are visiting HFs. + Refer patients to proper services based on needs (having complications). + Support the conduction of nutrition and health education sessions for clients. + Record all the necessary information on the existing reporting tools. Qualifications + Graduate medical nurse/midwifery from a recognized institute and exit exam should be passed. + At least 2-3 years experiences in the field of health and nutrition + Previous experiences working in health nutrition activities (OPD, TFU, paediatric unit….) + Good organization, planning, and reporting skills are necessary. + Ability to manage the working environment according to local culture. + High flexibility in deployment, possible with Mahram + Knowledge of the intervention area is a plus. + Develops and promotes effective collaboration within and across units to achieve shared goals and optimize results. + 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. + Communication and reporting skills + Fluency in Pashto, Dari, and English + Computer skills (including MS Word, Excel, Access, and Internet) are an advantage. + Ability to work closely, professionally, and constructively with all others regardless of nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion, race, tribe, or cultural background.