Nurse (OTP/TSFP)

Job Description

Title: Nurse (OTP/TSFP)

Company Name: Friendship

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 2 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Nursing

• B.Sc in Nursing with valid BNMC registration.

• At least 2 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

Relevant experience:

• At least 2 years of working experience
• Working experience in Nutrition Program will add value

Desired Skills

• At least two years emergency nutrition related work experiences (camp experience prefers)
• Experience in community-based nutrition intervention preferably in Community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM)
• Experience in standard nutrition data management and reporting

Responsible for:

Nurse (OTP/TSFP) Position is responsible for to provide over all technical, organizational support and play a support and facilitation role for community-based management of acute malnutrition in Rohingya camp. Establishes and maintains close working Relationship with communities in her working area in order to ensure that the nutrition messages are disseminated and understood at all levels.

Responsibilities:

• Support and facilitates emergency nutrition program participants in the identification and prioritization of project beneficiaries as per the national/UNICEF WHO CMAM protocol/guideline
• Supports and facilitates the development of action plan for their respective OTP
• Assesses health, nutrition, hygiene and sanitation related problems
• Facilities, organizes, and builds skill and knowledge of care takers on appropriate feeding practices (RUTF& RUSF), basic hygiene and sanitation
• Closely wok with Stabilization center (SC), Community mobilizer team, Majhi and Imam
• Ensure good triage of patients/beneficiaries in the facility.
• Ensure that every beneficiary receives an adequate medical examination, appropriate diagnosis, treatment and referral for additional treatment following national/UNICEF WHO CMAM protocol/guideline and standard guidelines.
• Conduct medical examination to targeted beneficiaries which include vital signs physical examination and medical history.
• Prescribe routine medications and provide treatment according to standard CMAM guidelines and treatment protocols.
• Follow CMAM protocols in assessing, admitting and treating beneficiaries in CMAM (OTP/TSFP) program.
• Timely referral of children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) with medical complications to the Nearby stabilization Centre (SC).
• To ensure that any beneficiary requiring further medical assistance is referred to the nearest health facility in accordance with protocols.
• Correctly record all relevant information (symptoms, diagnosis, measurements, treatment plan) for each beneficiary on appropriate forms of beneficiaries and medication given and complete the child's card (CMC) at every visit.
• Keep an up-to-date record of all therapeutic feeding products requisitions, consumptions, medication used and be responsible for stock management and reporting (distribution monitoring, use of non-expired drugs, stock ordering, balance stock etc.).
• Ensure wastes (medical and non-medical) are adequately disposed of at the facility.
• Provide health education and counselling to all caretakers (SAM & MAM).
• Attend team meetings and other meetings as requested.
• Ensure that all equipment is in good working condition and clean, including disinfection where needed.
• To handle the beneficiaries in a sensitive and reassuring manner.
• Prepare regular and ad-hoc reports as requested and timely submit to nutrition supervisor.
• Build capacity of staffs and CNVs of nutrition team through on-the-job training.
• Participate in trainings as requested.
• Provide technical support and builds a capacity of staffs and CNVs (specially appetite CNV)
• Maintain up to date records on above functions for provision of reports to supervisor as requested.
• Support quality recording and documentation of nutrition data in OTP/TSFP/SC sites
• Prepares weekly, monthly and quarterly reports and submit it to her/his nutrition supervisor
• Collects basic information, best practices, case studies, research and lessons and report to her/his supervisor
• Conduct malnutrition causal mapping and arrange outreach sessions in identified Pocket sub blocks
• Causal analysis of CNR
• Follow up home visit (defaulter/absentees/relapse/weight statices)
• Knowledge of nutrition indices calculation such as (average weight gain, length of stay, cure rate, defaulter rate, CNR, expected weight gain)
• Coordination and cross check data with Anthropometric point, GMP and PLW point
• Biweekly CMAM update meeting with Outreach team and Nutrition Site Supervisions at center level