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