Field Organizer / Field Level Staff (Paramedic)

Job Description

Title: Field Organizer / Field Level Staff (Paramedic)

Company Name: KMSS- TB Care and Prev. Project

Vacancy: 1

Age: At most 35 years

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: Tk. 22000 (Monthly)

Experience:

Published: 2024-10-21

Application Deadline: 2024-10-31

Education:

• Bachelor's degree from recognized university/Diploma in Medical Faculty/ Medical assistant (04 years)
• Any third division/class in an academic career will lead to ineligibility.

• Age At most 35 years

Experience:

• Minimum 01 years’ experience in a relevant field/ managerial role

Other requirements:

• Community mobilization and outreach activities
• Organizational Values, Vision, Mission and Policies
• Computer skills-MS Office
• Communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Field reporting
• Maintain high morale with integrity and honesty
• Organizing and planning skills
• Local networking and relationship building skills

Job Context:

• Khulna Mukti Seba Sangstha (KMSS) is a Bangladeshi development organization, has been working in the public health sector for more than two decades since 1997 and currently implementing different projects in 7 districts in the country.

• As a partner of BRAC, KMSS is implementing the program titled "Integrated Tuberculosis Care and Prevention, for Enhancing Case findings, health System Strengthening and Sustainability" funded by GFATM.

• Duration of the program is up to December 2026. Tuberculosis program will be implemented at 2 City Corporations (Ward No 6-8, 10, 11, 16 DNCC & 30-37, 43 DSCC).

• Job Location- Dhaka North City Corporation & Dhaka South City Corporation Area

• Location: The position will be based at the field level (Dhaka)

Major Responsibilities:

• Prepare monthly work-plan to implement the project activities

• Perform community mobilization for ACF (active case finding), organize outreach centers, collection of samples and transport them to the nearby facilities for Xpert/ Truenat/ Microscopy testing through extensive field visit

• Ensure treatment initiation, regular follow-up of ongoing patients and ensure quality DOT by monitoring Shasthya Shebika/ DOT provider/ community health workers

• Perform contact investigation (CI) of bacteriologically-confirmed pulmonary TB patients (both DS-TB and DR-TB)

• Refer contacts of index cases to the physician for screening the eligibility of TPT and ensure enrolment

• Guide community health workers/ volunteers to identify Child TB presumptive in the community and refer them to the facilities for testing

• Ensure HIV screening of TB patients in the respective working area

• Ensure referral of microscopy positive TB cases to molecular diagnostic sites for re-testing

• Ensure referral of retreatment cases for Xpert/ Truenat testing and link them with the DR-TB treatment initiation centers

• Ensure ambulatory treatment initiation at community level as early as possible in coordination with UH&FPO and MODC

• Organize courtyard meetings, TB campaigns, special outreach centers for key and vulnerable populations to enhance case detection

• Update private sector mapping including formal and informal healthcare facilities/ providers and visit them in a regular basis to enhance presumptive and case referral

• Ensure incentives for Shasthya Shebika/ DOT providers and social support for eligible TB presumptive and patients

• Maintain regular coordination, communication, and liaison with upazila/ union level stakeholders including HA, HI, CHCP etc.

• Contribute in the preparation of monthly/ quarterly reports and submit them in due time

• Practice and promote the organization’s gender policy and support implementation of gender equality and women empowerment at all levels

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the organization’s goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise in 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

• Accept relocation of the workstation or transfer anywhere based on the need of the project

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

• No. of case notification

• No. of reports preparation

• No. of outreach centers organized

• No. of quality DOT organized

• No. of TPT enrollment

• No. of HIV/ COVID-19 screening of TB patients

Reporting and dissemination:

• Ensure disease reports weekly, monthly and quarterly timely, accurate and complete reporting as per the agreement

• Ensure any other report to BRAC and NTP as and when necessary