Nurse / Midwife at Grassroots Lifesaving Outreach (LESGO)

Slot: 15 Opening

Job Summary

• Nurse/Midwife provides technical support and mentoring to CHEWs and CHVs in the supported primary health facilities and Mobile health team respectively under the direct supervision of Clinical Supervisors.
• The Nurse/Midwife supervises and ensure execution of the Nutrition/Health activities including, SAM/MAM cases, ANC, PNC, basic emergency obstetric and neonatal care, family planning, deliveries, active case search on Cholera etc. in accordance with the project design, planning, implementation, monitoring and report progress of support of the planned objectives to aligned with project goals and strategy.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Assists the preparation and periodic update of the Situation Analysis by compiling Health & Nutrition data, analyzing and evaluating relevant information and providing the technical input in a timely and accurate manner.
• Drafts chapters, prepares statistical data reports, and assists with preparation of sectoral input to the program documents as required. Contributes to the consultation and coordination with key partners at all levels.
• Provides professional technical assistance to CHEWs in supported PHCs on the integration of the SRH & Nutrition services, clinical treatment, management and support deliveries that will contributes to building CHEWs skills on BEmONC, SAM/MAM cases, ANC, PNC, basic emergency obstetric and neonatal care, family planning, deliveries etc. Establish partnerships to promote innovative approaches to address immediate and underlying determinants of maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition.
• Strictly adhere to clinical guidelines and standard operating procedures set by the Adamawa State Health Care Development Agency
• Support the Clinical Supervisor during mobile medical outreaches in hard-to-reach communities away from the health facility
• Support the Medical Clinical Supervisor in identifying necessary action for adjustments, improvement and sustainability of the project achievement
• Support the Medical Mobile team on active case search on cholera
• Reports outcome to Clinical Supervisors
• Provides timely data on ANC, PNC, Deliveries, SAM/MAM case, number of beneficiaries who access commodities, sensitization, etc to M&E officer
• Ensure follow ups/referrals
• Work in assigned health facility(ies) to provide technical guidance on project activities to MoH staff and follows up on cases
• Notify the Clinical Supervisor levels of essential commodities selected PHCs and households conducted in transparent manner in accordance with LESGO accountability procedure.
• Keeps close contacts with community stakeholders in order to improve the ability to collect and disseminate relevant information on program/project implementation in the communities and feedbacks
• Assists the monitoring team to ensure that data collection and analysis from field visits are standardized to feed into to M&E monitoring plan.
• Ensure timely preparation of Monthly/quarterly reports
• In case of emergency, assists in monitoring and assessing the nature and extent of the emergency in the assigned area.

Requirements

• Minimum of Registered Nurse, Registered Midwife or any other health related field
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Excellent leadership and coordination spirit
• Fluent in English and local language (Hausa)
• At least 2-3 years’ experience in coordinating, implementing and managing primary and secondary health program in humanitarian context
• Any other duties that may be assigned from time by supervisors.

Skills and Competency Required:

• Good relationship management/ advocacy skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Leadership/mentoring skills, supervisory and good interpersonal skills
• Patient counselling.
• High level of integrity and adherence to professional ethics
• Proficiency at using Microsoft office software: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.
• Ability to prioritize, plan and organize workflow to tight timeframes
• Ability to multitask and work with minimal supervision
• Attention to detail and ability to follow up on tasks to completion
• Excellent interpersonal skills, a good listener that is easy to talk to.