Community Health Supervisor

Job Description

Title: Community Health Supervisor

Company Name: Friendship

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

Published: 2025-04-10

Application Deadline: 2025-04-16

Education:

• Bachelor/Honors

• Bachelors preferably with Masters in Public Health/Sociology/Anthropology/Food & Nutrition/any other relevant subject.

Skill and Competencies:

• Minimum of 2 years of working experience in the relevant project. Applicants who have working experience in remote areas will be given preference.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Basic computer skills.
• Highly committed & motivated to work in remote places. 

Responsible for:

• Capacity building of CHWs and team leaders/ educators through on-the-job training and feedback as per the CHWG training calendar, and demand basis.
• Shadow visit with CHWs at the household level at least 2 days in a week maintaining a unique check list (CHWG approved).
• Home visits with CHWs to the household which has several vulnerable sick members to improve the household-based care and practices and creating awareness through individual or group counseling on preventive aspect of diseases.
• Organize orientation to the community forums on priority health topics as and when required under the guidance of the medical team leader and CHWG/Health Sector.
• Aggregate on daily/weekly basis and monitor collected forms (Mortality, referrals, livebirth) and improve the way for reporting and recording.
• Conduct weekly health education session with CHWs based on the CHWG guideline, and mentor session at the community level twice in a month.
• Assist the CHWs who have emergency patients send them to clinician for emergency treatment and care.
• Coordinate and support CHWs to work with different units of health center and other relevant sectors for health education, defaulter tracing and referrals.
• Ensure the use of IEC materials for conducting regular health education sessions.
• Organize and facilitate a regular monthly meeting with other outreach workers in the camp.
• Help improving the working quality of CHW.
• Lead the discussion of weekly meeting with CHW who share their concerns and interesting findings. Record the information that CHW shared.
• Help in solving the problems that CHW raise in the meeting. 
• Implement the task as per the CHWG/ Health Sector guidance.
• Support patients follow up irrespective of funding agency.  

Activities: 

• Ensure proper infection prevention practices including housekeeping· Prepare monthly report.
• Any work assigned by the concerned authority.
• Attend all relevant meetings/workshops/training.
• Actively take part in mentoring activities organized by Friendship.
• Excellent Communication skills.
• Act always in accordance with the Code of Conduct.
• Honest and high level of integrity.