Nurse-Mobile Health & Nutrition Team, Concern Worldwide Vacancy Announcement

Job purpose

The main objective of the MHNT Nurse is to improve access to – and utilization of – basic child and women friendly health and nutrition services to prevent avoidable morbidities and mortalities and alert, prevent and control disease outbreaks. He/she will have responsibility for the provision of appropriate treatment for all patients in compliance with rational use of drugs and national standard treatment protocols.

Main duties & Responsibilities:

Technical Support and Facilitation

• Provision of appropriate treatment for all patients in compliance with rational use of drugs and national standard treatment protocols
• Manage all sick children under the IMNCI protocol. Other services under the child health package are Immunization, Vitamin A supplementation and De-worming
• Screening of all under 5 children (under children health package), pregnant women and lactating women (under maternal health and other acute & life threatening illnesses package) and essential nutrition actions (ENAs)
• Manage children with acute malnutrition in accordance to the national guideline for management of acute malnutrition
• Support and follow-up BCC activities
• Ensure proper referral of all emergency cases beyond the team capacity to the nearest referral health centre &/or Hospital
• Assists the transportation of  supplies to health facilities along the way to its operational site
• Participate in the selection, functionalization and strengthening of operational sites including a health post
• Support package for health posts includes including service delivery, HEWs capacity development in recording and reporting, active case searching and sensitization, supply and cold chain management and model household training.
• Conduct regular visits at health posts to provide on-the-job support
• Regularly monitor supported health posts
• Support the reporting of health activities from the health facilities and pass it to the woreda health office
• Implementing health and nutrition activities of high quality
• Alerting the immediate supervisor on all issues that have an important impact or no identified solution or need support to be solved
• Timely and adequately reporting on health and nutrition program
• Good working relations between AAH, government health staff and other partners.

Planning, Reporting and Accountability

• Prepare monthly progress reports and any other required documentation for submission to the Project Manager
• Ensure and support the Woreda Health Office (WoHO) staff in reporting, recording and supply management of OTP and SC program
• Ensure  weekly and monthly reports are submitted to the project manager using appropriate format (narrative and statistics with database)
• Report any problems in a timely manner to the Health officer
• Ensure that program participants and stakeholders have clear information about the program activities as appropriate and relevant to them.
• At all times, adhere to policies and guidelines of Concern.
• Support on cascading induction on   mainstreaming gender, protection, accountability, HIV/AIDS, and equality to other project staff
• Committed to CWW’s vision, mission and core values
• Ensure proper documentation of good practices, success stories, challenges for learning  and sharing
• Follow clearly appropriate protocols and guidelines – National.
• Write notes clearly and neatly on health card or admission chart
• Document clearly the admission and discharge diagnosis for each patient according to national statistical definitions to enable good analysis by the mobile team
• Write prescriptions clearly and neatly on health card or prescription chart
• Properly fill multi-chart and tally sheet at the end of each day
• Ensure any investigations carried out are clearly marked on the health card or admission chart
• Participate in the weekly/ monthly data compilation and  reporting of Mobile activities
• Prepare both weekly and monthly reports regarding your activities, identified, problems and proposed solutions for your immediate supervisor and program manager (if he/she needs it)
• Ensure timely request of drugs, supplies and other program items.

Additional Duties

Perform other duties assigned by the line manager for the accomplishment of programme objectives.

Emergency response

Concern is committed to responding to emergencies efficiently and effectively in order to help affected people meet their basic needs, alleviate suffering and maintain their dignity. To this end, when emergencies strike and the Ethiopia Programme is to respond, all staff are required to actively participate in the response, regardless of location and contribute to the efforts aimed at achieving the humanitarian objective of the organization.

Accountability

In line with Concern’s commitments under the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS):

• actively promote meaningful community participation and consultation at all stages of the project cycle (planning, implementation, M&E);
•  work with relevant colleagues  to ensure that the Complaints and Response Mechanism (CRM) is functional and accessible, that feedback and complaints are welcomed and addressed;
• work with relevant colleagues  to ensure that information about CRM, safeguarding and expected staff behaviour is disseminated among programme participants and communities.

Safeguarding

• Ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation by working on the adherence of CONCERN Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy.
• Ensure program participant Protections by adhering standards of the safeguarding policy when program participants be in contact with CONCERN during different trainings, meetings, workshops and contractual works.
• Assess the safety and security of different meeting, workshop and training venues in collaboration with project  HR unit
•  Provide technical support &Advise to Project Manager Follow up & Monitor Strategic Implementation of Concern Safeguarding Issues collaborating with Gender & Safeguarding team in Concern.

Gender Equity 

• Demonstrate understanding of Concern Ethiopia’s Gender Equality Strategy
• Contribute to ensuring that Concern Ethiopia is a place where men and women are treated equally and with  dignity and respect
•  Demonstrate gender equality awareness and gender sensitivity and an ability to integrate a gender equality perspective into tasks and activities.

• BSc Degree in Public Health/Nursing with minimum of three years or Diploma in clinical nursing five years relevant experience
• Profound experience in CMAM, particularly SAM management
• Computer literate
• NGO experience in emergency projects is an advantage
• Good communication and report writing skills
• Good negotiation skill with government and other agencies
• Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written English.
• Good interpersonal skills and team player with sensitivity to cultural diversity
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to understand and respect the cultural, religious and political environment and to work well with staff and local authorities in a diplomatic
• Experience in providing training and capacity building for staff
•  Proficiency  in Somali Language is Mandatory

Competencies:

• Knowledge of participatory approaches
• Ability to work with teams at distance and good team player

Capacity Building skills

Ability to plan own work, set priorities, complete work under pressure or when faced with competing demands and report

Analytical skills

Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Computer proficiency

What we offer

• A competitive salary and benefit package
• Excellent medical benefits (100% cover including dependents)
• 20 days annual leave
•  26 weeks (paid) maternity leave, 18 weeks (unpaid) parental leave