Nutrition Assistant at Medecins Sans Frontieres

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