Community Health Supervisor
Job Description
Title: Community Health Supervisor
Company Name: FH Association (Cox's Bazar)
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor degree in any discipline.
∎ At least one year of CHW experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Please note: this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of
∎ activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.
∎ Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ The key activities include: health and hygiene messaging, nutrition screening, disease surveillance, mortality and live birth surveillance, antenatal care and postnatal care (ANC/PNC) household visits, follow up of pregnant women, including encouragement of facility delivery, referrals and clinic follow ups. Additionally, the CHW program encompasses community psychosocial volunteers (CPVs) who deliver mental wellbeing community workshops, lead peer groups, identify and refer patients, supervised by MHPSS Coordinators and other medical staff.
∎ This program is an essential link between the health facilities and the Rohingya communities and leaders.
∎ CHW / CPW also act an important role in case of emergency, including natural disaster or man made disaster.
∎ They would react as a first responder, providing first aid or psychological first aid (PFA), appropriate community mobilization, as well as they are expected to strengthen the resilience of the community.
∎ The purpose of the CH Supervisor is to ensure the implementation of CHW/CPW activities according to JRRP needs. The position shall be responsible for specific coordination within a designated JRRP catchment area (organized by Camp) in addition to general CHW program responsibilities and representation. The job holder will carry out appropriate roles and responsibilities in close collaboration with the Senior CHW Supervisor, Clinic Leads, Psychologists, Field Administration Officers, as well as external stakeholders.
∎ Key Result #1: Leadership coordination across all JRRP areas of operation between the health facilities and the surrounding community catchment areas, Plan and implement CHW programming within the designated camp, in close coordination with close consultation and coordination with clinic staff and the supervisors.
∎ Conduct regular CHW team meetings by camp, checking in frequently with CHW Facilitators/Supervisors and Team Leaders.
∎ Collaborate with Field Operations and logistics while coordinating project needs, to ensure supplies
∎ are maintained and strategically managed.
∎ Ensure appropriate duty of care provisions are in place for all staff and visitors, with particular
∎ attention paid to security concerns.
∎ Represent the organization both internally and externally concerning community health issues,
∎ ensuring its good public image and the alignment with the humanitarian response.
∎ Attend relevant coordination meetings (CHW Working Group, EPI/Contact Tracing, camp
∎ management, facility-based health committee meeting etc.) as necessary.
∎ Communicate with the local Rohingya community leaders (e.g. mahjis, imams), traditional birth
∎ attendant (TBA) on key health messaging and activities.
∎ Facilitate external engagement activities such as radio listening groups, contact tracing, language
∎ focus group testing, or public arts initiatives.
∎ Performing covid19 or other outbreak related activities across the camps.
∎ Performing any tasks assigned by Supervisor/Department Head.
∎ Key Result #2: Support the day-to-day training, coaching, and capacity building of CHWs/CPVs
∎ Ensure the proper recruitment, orientation, training, development, and care of all of new CHWs/CPVs, as necessary.
∎ Accountability: Randomized spot checks of CHW home visits, Team Leader ledgers.
∎ Re-develop and implement CHW community satisfaction surveys, and make a report in a timely
∎ manner.
∎ Attend relevant external and internal trainings in order to reproduce learnings at the field level.
∎ Provide leadership and people management in managing and bridging different ways of working
∎ and diverse working cultures within the teams.
∎ Support direct reports in upholding organization values and ethics by all team members and
∎ identifying any possible issue regarding this matter.
∎ Keep abreast of environmental, economic, social, political, and religious conditions in the field, and
∎ report on such conditions as needed.
∎ Key Result #3: Quality Improvement and Assurance.
∎ Reporting - submitting reports and data in a timely manner to relevant department etc.
∎ Monitoring: To review the report and indicators with Supervisors including Senior CH Supervisors, and make an analysis.
∎ Based on the analysis, to come up with the appropriate next plan and implement.
∎ Active consultation - whenever possible, to seek for technical expertise, such as clinic staff or HPM, PSO.
∎ To update your knowledge and skill actively, so that you could contribute to the program.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at least 22 years
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): At least 1 year experience in Community Health Works.
∎ To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty/function satisfactorily.
∎ The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability
∎ required.
∎ Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to
∎ perform the essential functions.
∎ A commitment to serving the poor and in full agreement with FH's foundation and beliefs as
∎ expressed in The Heartbeat: our Values, Vision, and Purpose.
∎ Excellent people skills including warmth and sensitivity, conversational, able to relate to and
∎ effectively communicate with people from different cultures (at various levels within the
∎ organization).
∎ High integrity and a strong sense of professional ethics.
∎ Able to self-manage a diverse and dynamic set of responsibilities, proactively solve problems and /or suggest viable solutions while advancing goals and objectives.
∎ Demonstrated computer operating skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office products and Google platform.
∎ Excellent organizational skills; ability to plan and coordinate work, ensure the efficient flow of projects and processes.
∎ Strong people management skills / interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate, teach and mentor staff and volunteers.
∎ Comfortable and persuasive when speaking before both large and small groups.
∎ Ability to interact positively with all levels of the organization and across organizational and cultural boundaries.
∎ Medical fitness to travel and work in the camps, including walking distances and climbing hills,
∎ potentially in difficult weather.
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Insurance
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 29 Jun 2023
Company Information:
∎ 30 May 2023
∎ FH Association (Cox's Bazar)
∎ Address : The White House, Opposite to Police Lines, Between Bus Station and Dolphin Circle. Kolatoli, Cox's Bazar.
∎ Web : https://www.fh.org
∎ Business : Food for the Hungry is an International Development agency aiming to end all forms of poverty. In 1972, Food for the Hungry (FH) began working in Bangladesh to end poverty altogether. Since then, FH has focused on community development including livelihoods, micro-lending, health, education, and disaster response resilience. Over 50 years, FH has partnered with Bangladeshi leaders and impoverished communities to create better living conditions.
Category: Medical/Pharma
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Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 29th Jun 2023
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