Female
| Job Location: | Kandahar |
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| Nationality: | Afghan |
| Category: | Nurse |
| Employment Type: | Full Time |
| Salary: | As per organization salary scale |
| Vacancy Number: | Medair_KHR_AFG6 |
| No. Of Jobs: | 1 |
| City: | Sorki Lazhi Village BHC, Spin Boldak District, KHR |
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| Organization: | MEDAIR |
| Years of Experience: | 3 years relevant post graduate experience |
| Contract Duration: | 31 May 2025 |
| Gender: | Female |
| Education: | Minimum 2 Years Diploma/Certificate of nursing or midwifery, or equivalent medical training |
| Close date: | 2025-02-16 |
Medair is an international humanitarian organization established in 1988. Medair has been operating in Afghanistan since 1996 with programs mainly in the Health, Water & Sanitation, and Livelihoods sectors with significant reconstruction activities in remote areas. Current projects are Water & Sanitation, Food Security, & Disaster Risk Reduction.
An Integrated Emergency Response: Medair aims to respond to high levels of food insecurity, malnutrition, and morbidity in Tirinkot district. The project intends to improve and extend WASH services including water supply infrastructure and hygiene practices to improve outcomes for vulnerable families.
An Integrated Emergency Response: Medair aims to respond to high levels of food insecurity, malnutrition, and morbidity in Uruzgan, which has been significantly affected by drought and conflict conditions. Building upon Medair’s decades of experience in the Central Highlands and Kandahar, the project intends to improve and extend the utilization of lifesaving preventive and curative nutrition and health services by mothers, PLWs, and children U5; to increase access to clean water, to reduce vulnerability to water-related and other preventable diseases, and to improve and increase food security for the most vulnerable families through food voucher distributions.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Ensures that appropriate nutritional care as well as MIYCN/IYCF counseling is properly delivered to nutritionally vulnerable infants (0-6months) and young children under the age of 2 years according to Medair and national protocols, values and universal standards.
Upholds Medair values, and positively and actively contribute to the attainment of the teams. objectives.
Technical
Be able to assess the MIYCN/IYCF needs for nutritionally vulnerable infants and young children under the age of 2 years and give appropriate individual or group counselling or referral.
Provide appropriate skilled breastfeeding counselling to caregivers(Mothers) with infants and young children under the age of 2 years, this includes being able to give one-on-one counselling on the following topics:
Recognize the general danger signs in infants and young children under the age of 2 years and refer to a IMNCI Nurse at the OPD/site for further assessment or to the nearest health facility in the absence of the IMNCI nurse.
Provide in-depth assessment of infants under 6 months and lactating women as part of screening if they are at risk (nutritionally) according to MAMI (Management of At-Risk Mothers and Infants) admission criteria, this includes being able to:
Follow-up enrolled infants and lactating women in the MAMI program to follow their progress in the program, especially related to breastfeeding issues. Through CHNVs
Assess enrolled lactating women for maternal mental health issues and refer to appropriate mental health service if needed
Liaise with the Health and Hygiene promotion Trainer and CHNVs to ensure that MAMI program defaulters and non-responders are followed up with home visits
Liaise with the appropriate community volunteers(CHNVs) to ensure that the volunteers are able to do appropriate active case finding for both the MAMI program and any other young children under the age of 2 where the caregiver needs one on one MIYCN counselling
Discharge infants and the lactating woman according to MAMI discharge criteria.
Give supportive supervision and capacity build the Health and Hygiene promotion Trainer and volunteers at the nutrition site on technical MIYCN matters.
Quality Management
Logistics
Education: Minimum 2 Years Diploma/Certificate of nursing or midwifery, or equivalent medical training.
Relevant experience:
Languages: Good Pashto/Dari - oral and written skills and some English - oral and written skills is essential / Good English - oral and written skills is desirable.
Computer: Working knowledge in MS word and excel is desirable.
Other skills:
Interested applicants should apply and forward their applications through the online JOB APPLICATION FORM which can be found under the submission email. The link should be copied, pasted, and opened on a new page.
Note: Please indicate the position title and vacancy number in your application letter. Applications received after the closing date or without the exact position title and vacancy number will not be given consideration. After submitting the online application, if some applicants do not immediately receive an automatic email from Medair, they shouldn't worry about their submission. When you open the link. please use the dropdown menu and choose the title of the position.
Note 2: (Female Applicants Only), she and her Mahram must be living in the work location.
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