Community Health Educator at Medecins Sans Frontieres

Responsibilities

• Deliver health education and awareness sessions on hygiene, disease prevention, nutrition, and available health services to patients, caregivers, and communities.
• Ensure patients, caregivers, blood donors, and visitors are properly oriented on CEmONC services, hospital regulations, patient rights, and safeguarding information.
• Conduct regular monitoring of community health and living conditions, including nutritional screening, vaccination follow‑up, population movement, and identification of medical or social risks.
• Identify individuals with medical needs and coordinate timely referrals with the medical team, reporting issues to the line manager as required.
• Provide targeted health education messages across CEmONC units (ANC, PNC, wards, laboratory waiting areas), aligned with medical objectives.
• Collect patient and caregiver feedback and report gaps related to hygiene facilities, water, sanitation, and patient experience.
• Support patient experience activities, including surveys, exit interviews, IPC awareness, and compliance messaging.
• Liaise with medical teams to support patients and caregivers with consent processes, communication, blood donation/replacement, and culturally appropriate practices.
• Ensure culturally appropriate tools and local languages are used for effective communication and health education.
• Collect, compile, and report daily data and indicators to the HPCE Supervisor.
• Support food demonstrations and provide basic nutrition education for pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers.