Nutrition Assistants at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)


MSF_Médecins Sans Frontières_Medical humanitarian organisation

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international, private, non-governmental, non-profit humanitarian organization. Our organization offers assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters, to victims of armed conflict, without discrimination irrespective of race, religion, creed or political affiliation.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Nutrition Assistant

Location: Ganjuwa, Bauchi
Employment Type: Full-time

Scope of Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Prepare meals for MSF staff, according to hygiene standards and security rules, in order to ensure their nutritional needs as follows:

  • Carrying out basic health care (swabbing, feeding, and applying local treatments, etc.) following the rules on hygiene and asepsis.
  • Informing caretakers on the functioning of the centre: lay out, daily activity plan (number and frequency of the meals, medical visit, weight measurement, etc.) and other general information.
  • Distributing meals according to medical prescriptions for each patient, ensuring that no other food is given in place. Reporting on daily basis, the intake of the patients under nutritional treatment.
  • Providing hygienic training and sanitation education to children, mothers and the targeted population and stimulating mothers to breast-feed.
  • Monitoring and reporting weight and other vital indicators, if necessary, (temperature, heart and respiratory rates) of each patient.
  • Applying the correct procedures in the event of a fever or hypothermia and reporting to the nurse pathologic symptoms such as, apathetic, anorexia, not drinking, vomiting, fever, dehydration, diarrhea, etc.
  • Preparing ORS or Resomal when required.
  • Supervising drinking water availability in the ward, and ensuring it is well identified.
  • Supervising the maintenance of clean premises and materials
  • Performing minor maintenance and cleaning of the biomedical equipment following user manual and protocols.
  • Alerting the supervisor in case of malfunctioning of any device.
  • MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities:
  • Support in making sure patients supplies are available in different wards,
  • Help as much as possible the new recruited staff assigned in the same room.
  • Orientation of decharged patients to vaccination unit.
  • Support in patient registration and service orientation
  • Responsible for the preparation, distribution and monitoring of feeding of hospitalized patients,
  • Patients surveillance (Vital signs),
  • Bed making,
  • Support in nasogastric feeding process,
  • Cleaning of medical equipment when necessary,
  • Support in promoting patient comfort.

Minimum Requirements

  • Literacy and sound knowledge on nutrition protocols
  • Experience working in MSF or other NGO’s and in developing countries is desirable
  • Knowledge of English and local language essential

Application Closing Date
19th November, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online