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 

• To work as part of health and nutrition team covering assigned BHC sites.
• To provide triage to adult male patients as per the national guidelines and procedures.
• Provide general nursing care to male patients
• To ensure accurate record keeping of all activities, following the provided data collection templates.
• To ensure patient flow and static clinic set up, including safe storage and handling of the HN stock.
• Any other activities not listed in the JD but requested by line manager.

Technical

• Organise the waiting area, and patient flow through the mobile clinic.
• Triaging of male adult patients and ensuring COVID-19 and other communicable disease mitigation measures are followed in waiting areas
• Providing health education, nutrition and hygiene promotion messages to adult male patients in waiting area, in accordance with agreed messages.
• Provide nursing care to male patients as directed by the medical doctor
• Support in disease surveillance at the clinics
• Ensuring all arrangement and set up of septic procedures and nursing sets
• Drugs request, proper medicine arrangement in the nursing room as per the required standards
• Support in arranging for referrals, recording referrals and follow up
• Display of approved IEC/Posters at the waiting areas
• Providing counselling to adult patients when required
• Any other technical activities not listed in the JD but requested by the line manager

Quality Management

• Ensure adherence to the provided protocols and guidelines.
• Ensure accurate record keeping of screening, triage, filling in forms, cards, registration books and tally sheets as required.
• Compile reports as required and share.
• Ensure anthropometric equipment is handled carefully and regularly checked for accuracy.

Logistics

• Set up BHC/male OPD consultation according to site plan, including clinical stations, furniture’s, medical management, handwashing facilities and waste management.
• Ensure safe storage and handling of all food products, medicines and medical material and equipment.
• Assist the Medical doctor and facility staff in preparing stock

Education

Diploma in Nursing is required

Work Experience

At least 1–3 years relevant experience

Languages

Fluent written and spoken Pashto

Motivation

• Ability to work in a team and coordinate tasks and responsibilities.
• Ability to organize people in an orderly way and prioritize tasks.
• Good listening and counselling skills, patient care, and kind attitude.
• Highly motivated to provide high quality services to beneficiaries of poor communities in a challenging setting.
• Good problem-solving skills with a solution-oriented attitude.
• Flexible and willing to perform other tasks as required.
• Respectful and kind with other staff, beneficiaries, and communities.
• Willingness to travel, work and live in a rural setting, and to behave in a manner appropriate to the culture.
• Willingness to learn and develop further.
• Transparent in dealing with beneficiaries and Medair staff.
• Honest and dependable, with strong anti-fraud principles and high level of integrity.

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.

Medair will provide the following benefits for the selected candidate:

• Competitive salary 
• Employment benefits such as (medical, transportation, economic hardship, food, Mahram, and accommodation for non-residents)
• Annual leave, sick leave, maternity leave, and other types of leave as per Medair policy