Health Assistant

Job Description

Title: Health Assistant

Company Name: Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Nurse-aide/Health Assistant diploma required (if there is one recognized by the country-MoH/Any relevant training).
∎ 6 months work experience in similar position would be desirable (specially in ICU)

Experience Requirements:
∎ Na

Job Responsibilities:
∎ As directed assisting the nurse in organizing and providing care and treatments to patients, respecting at all times, the rules of hygiene, safety, comfort, dignity, medical secret and patient confidentiality. As requested responding to nurse’s requirements in case of an emergency.
∎ Participating in the surveillance and monitoring of the patient and reporting to the nurse any relevant information. Compensating patients’ possible lack of autonomy by assisting and helping them in feeding, personal hygiene, movements and general comfort
∎ Reporting any problem arising in the care unit, especially the loss, robbery or damage of equipment or medicines.
∎ Ensuring cleanliness of his/her working environment (including facilities, material, linen, equipment, and carrying out the sorting and disposal of waste)
∎ Working together with the nurses, cleaners and care-takers.
∎ Participating actively in the hospital platform (meetings, committee,.), trainings and in the basic health education sessions
∎ Participating in any other related activities as requested by the line manager
∎ Performing minor maintenance and cleaning of the biomedical equipment following user manual and protocols. Alerting the supervisor in case of malfunctioning of any device.
∎ General Responsibilities :
∎ As directed by the nurse in the health facility (OPD and IPD settings), always respecting the rules of hygiene, safety, comfort, dignity, medical ethics and patient confidentiality.
∎ Reporting to the nurse any health relevant information in the OPD area and IPD (wards), compensating patients’ basic needs by assisting and helping them in feeding, personal hygiene, movements and general comfort.
∎ Being responsible of medical equipment, biomedical equipment and pharmacy equipment in their respective wards and reporting any problem with the line manager (nurse/supervisor/NAM).
∎ Ensuring cleanliness of their working environment (including facilities, material, linen, equipment, and carrying out the sorting and disposal of waste)
∎ Working together with the nurses, health promoters, hygienist and care-takers.
∎ Participate in trainings and in the basic health education sessions
∎ Performing minor maintenance and cleaning of the biomedical equipment following instruction. Alerting the supervisor in case of malfunctioning of any device.
∎ Reception and follow up of patients:
∎ Receiving and installing the patients on their arrival in the service
∎ Informing patients of how the service functions and the modalities to be followed
∎ Helping the nurse to take and interpret parameters (temperature, heart and respiratory rates, blood pressure, state of consciousness, weight, etc)
∎ Carrying out all care delegated by the nurse: damping down, changing urine collectors, parachecks, etc.
∎ Taking daily measures to ensure the hygiene and comfort of bed-ridden patients: washing, installation for eating meals, changing position, etc
∎ Seeing to patients’ security
∎ Helping to position patients correctly during medical acts
∎ Watching over food intake and helping during meals if necessary
∎ Watching over adequate liquid intake
∎ Informing the nurse in case of changes in health status
∎ Reassuring and informing patients and the persons accompanying them throughout their facility visit.
∎ Setting up health education sessions according to needs
∎ Hygiene in the service:
∎ Ensuring adequate hygiene conditions in the patients’ environment: clean beds, clean floors, clean furniture, etc
∎ Carrying out the sorting and correct disposal of waste
∎ Ensuring the availability of water, soap and disinfectants for hand washing and general hygiene in the service
∎ Preparing disinfectant solutions following doses, dilution and usage conditions
∎ Cleaning and decontaminating used instruments according to the protocol in use
∎ Ensuring they are sent to the sterilization service/recuperating and storing instruments already sterilized
∎ Liaison between the different services:
∎ Ensuring the transfer and transport of patients between the different services and departments
∎ Transporting samples destined for the laboratory and collecting the results on a daily basis
∎ Helping to keep the pharmacy in order
∎ Specific tasks (If needed)
∎ Upon completion of certificate training by MoH/ recognized by MoH, he/she can be attached/delegate to support
∎ Surveillance: collection and compilation of regular clinic data as per delegation
∎ Nutrition: nutritional assessments including measurement of BMI and MUAC, monitoring of malnourished children under supervision by ward/in charge in ATFC/ITFC which includes daily weight measurements/ preparation of feeds and monitoring of feeding schedules etc.
∎ EPI program, including routine and vaccinations campaigns which may involve registration of patients, pushing of vaccines through intra-muscular route, proper disposal of vaccine waste as per guideline and support in report documentations.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age 18 to 59 years
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Person with disability are encouraged to apply

Salary:
∎ Tk. 37020 - 44424 (Monthly)
∎ 2 annual leave days per month worked. Medical insurance for employee and direct dependents

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays
∎ Festival Bonus: 2

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 6 Jun 2023

Company Information:
∎ 31 May 2023
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
∎ Address : 5th Floor, Khawaja Palace, Plot N. 76, Ro-11, Banani, Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh.
∎ Business : Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in over 80 countries worldwide. MSF has been working in Bangladesh since 1992. MSF was awarded the prestigious `Nobel Peace Prize` in 1999 for its pioneering humanitarian activities since 1971 in several continents.

Category: NGO/Development

: Email to: [email protected] with subject stating the position you are applying for ‘Health Assistant-Goyalmara’ and your Name.

Source: bdjobs.com

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