Post Date: Jan 07, 2025
Closing Date: Jan 13, 2025
Reference: Tdh-006-2025
Number of Vacancies: 1
Salary Range: $ 593
Years of Experience: 3 years
Probation Period: Not Specified
Contract Type: Short Term
Contract Duration: 1 year
Contract Extensible: Maybe
Minimum Education: Diploma
Gender: Female
About Terre des hommes
Terre des hommes Lausanne (Tdh) is a Swiss child welfare foundation, providing assistance and protection to vulnerable population worldwide. Tdh has been working in Afghanistan since 1995 and carry out projects related to Child Protection, Mother and Child Health and Livelihood Programs in Kabul, Herat & Nangarhar provinces.
Job Summary
The Nutrition Counselor is responsible for providing Screening (scale measurement) of children under 5 years of age and PLW regularly to receive cases of malnutrition.
- Screening of the children underage of 5 for malnutrition
- Screening of the PLW for the malnutrition
- Treating children suffering from severe and moderate acute malnutrition
- Complete growth monitoring for children U5 and PLW.
- Refer complicated case of SAM to the advance health facilities in Nangarhar province
Duties & Responsibilities
- Facilitating nutrition issues according to the division of time for health education of the mobile health and nutrition team for clients at the village level.
- Registering cases of malnutrition and promoting their treatment
- Distributing nutritional materials according to the national nutrition guidelines
- Regular reporting according to the national nutrition guidelines
- Working together with the Nutrition nurse in serious cases, cooperating with doctors in urgent cases and other cases that are necessary.
- Regular and accurate care of treating patients based on job responsibility,
- Decent and active participation in nurse-midwifery educations and trainings.
- Performing additional tasks (related to the health center services) is requested by the relevant manager.
- Conduct health assessment on tuberculosis for patients
- Health advertisements and awareness about this disease for patients and other visitors
Before the examination:
- Checking the cleanliness of the needed materials.
- Preparing materials during work (gloves, sterilizing materials, etc.)
- Regulating the entry of patients based on their priority.
- Providing health instructions to the clients according to the specific time division.
During the examination:
- Giving supplementary information to the patient about their problem.
- Providing information and messages about the use of nutritional substances
- Accurate explanation of the problem to the patient, if necessary, ask the doctor for help.
- Accurate and correct dressing, taking into account the sterilization conditions.
- Schedule a meeting again if necessary.
- Preparing and delivering monthly reports to the relevant supervisor at a certain time.
- Provide weekly and monthly report
Job Requirements
- 12th Grade graduate
- Prefer will be given to Nurse and/or Midwifery
- Nutrition Training to be obtained
- Minimum three (3) years of experience,
- Practical experience in the field of Nutrition.
- Has good knowledge of indicators for and the consequences on type of abuse, exploitation and violence on children.
- Is able to present project health activities concerns verbally and in writing.
- Has good understanding of report writing.
- Be able to communicate national language Pashto and Dari
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Submission Guideline
To apply, please click on the below link:
https://jobs.af/jobs/nutrition-counsellor-female-only/apply