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JOB TITLE: Junior Community Health Extension Worker (JCHEW)
JOB LOCATIONS: Mafa & Bama – Borno
Employment Type: Contract
Number of Openings: 12 (6 per location)
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Duration: 6 Months
Expected Resumption Date: ASAP
JOB DETAILS:
Some common duties and responsibilities include.
- Assisting with daily living activities such as dispensing drugs to patients, ORS dilatation and using the home mix ORS.
- Respond to clients or patients according to their training.
- Utilizing equipment to move patients when necessary.
- Taking the patient’s vital signs such as blood pressure and temperature.
- Talking to patients.
- Health education on cholera prevention and other water borne diseases
- Attending meetings with other healthcare professionals.
- Assisting nurses and other staff when needed
- Collaborate closely with colleagues to respond to the significant medical care needs of clients.
- Plan for and coordinate the delivery of medical care pre- and post-arrival.
- Assist with developing partnerships with local medical and mental health service providers.
- Provide health-related information to newly arrived clients during Cultural and Intake Orientations.
- Work with other staff to identify newly arrived clients for primary health care appointments and needed specialty care.
- Refer clients for specialist appointments.
- Assist with coordinating client access to transportation and interpretation services for health care appointments. Transport clients to and from doctor appointments if needed.
- Coordinate with colleagues and local health care providers to ensure clients have access to culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
- Assist with conducting routine wellness checks and connect families to appropriate services.
- Implement tracking system for client primary care and specialist appointments.
- Maintain open and effective communication with other programs as appropriate.
- Actively participate in regularly scheduled staff meetings.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Education (Essential): Certified Board Exams CHEW
- Graduate of school of health technology (CHEW)
- Experience: 2 years and or field experiences.
- Confidentiality, Team Player, ability to work with little or no supervision, people management.
- Community health extension workers CHEW must be well versed in a number of care and medical techniques.
- They must be informed about the most recent care techniques available and always be looking for ways to improve their skills and knowledge.
Report Writing:
- Additional Skills: Ability to work in low resource field environments.
- Language Skills: Fluent in English (Speaking, Reading, Writing), Kanuri and Hausa are added advantage
Personal Skills:
- Ability to work under tight deadline team-work, negotiation skills and flexible working hours.
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Note: Women are strongly encouraged to Apply.
Deadline: September 23, 2022
Job Features
Job Category | Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) |