Field Assistant, BRAC Health Programme (BHP); Project Staff

Job Description

Title: Field Assistant, BRAC Health Programme (BHP); Project Staff

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 1 year
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• SSC

Preferably if worked as a community-level health worker previously.

• At least 1 year
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.

• Good communication skills in the local language.

• Flexibility, Accountability, Timeliness.

BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.

Working at BRAC is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.

Our approach leverages BRAC’s decades of experience in primary healthcare service delivery to enhance the quality to enhance the quality, equity and efficiency of local health systems in rural and urban settings across Bangladesh.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Household & household member registration in a digital database

• Assist Paramedics in HH visits & satellite camps consultations.

• Mobilize community people for satellite camps and PHC

• Provide health-related preventive messages, provide awareness on institutional delivery and referral of patients to nearby health facilities.

• Provide health education and awareness on health outbreaks (Dengue, Cholera etc), information, awareness and care related to Pregnancy & Family planning, Childcare, Communicable disease program (TB) and Non-Communicable Diseases etc.

• Assist paramedics in community-level group counseling sessions and courtyard meetings when necessary.

• Screening for high-risk NCD/CD groups as well as screen the vulnerable population to provide mental health support as per programme requirement.

• Attending monthly meetings and reporting.

SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organisation and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme`s goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.

• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.

• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so.

Festival Bonus, Health and Life Insurance, and others as per policy