JOB TITLE: Health Clinical Assistant
JOB LOCATION: Mubi, Adamawa
JOB DETAILS:
- Assist the Health Clinical Assistant in patient care at the mobile clinics.
- Act as the link between mobile clinics and the community to ensure awareness of available services, proper follow-up of patients and defaulter tracing.
- Develop and conduct training of community volunteers on pillars of safe motherhood, infant and young child feeding practices, general child care and hygiene promotion.
- Provide health messaging in the communities, in collaboration with community volunteers.
- Collect weekly activity reports from the CVs, review, discuss and submit to the team leader.
- Conduct regular meetings with the CVs, for sharing information, discussing relevant health issues and weekly activity plans for health messaging in the communities.
- Ensure health basic protocols and other IEC materials are well displayed in the facilities and outreach sites.
- Ensure mobile clinic sites are clean and well maintained.
- Establish effective referral mechanism between the mobile clinic and the hospital.
- Supervise and monitor CVs in the community.
- Jointly with the team, provide ongoing education for clinic staff and CVs.
- Maintain an updated record and compile and submit monthly reports of all services given.
- Monitor and ensure the proper usage of health and program supplies.
- Prepare weekly workplans and ensure timely implementation of the project activities.
- Support Health Clinical Officer in compiling statistical reports from the mobile clinics for submission weekly, monthly and annually.
- Ensure adequate flow of information for all supervisees with constant feedback as may be required.
- Carry out other relevant or requested duties as may be required.
Key Working Relationships
- Position Reports to: Health Manager
- Position directly supervises: None
- Indirect Reporting: Health Clinical Officer
Other Internal and/or external contacts:
- Internal: Required to be a good team player, works effectively within the team
- External: Close coordination and collaboration with line ministries (PHCDA, MoH), partners (Alima, WHO) and stakeholders (Community leaders, community structures and Clients).
Qualifications
- Education: College Diploma in Nursing /midwifery/clinical medicine
Work Experience:
- Registered Nurse or experienced community health extension worker
- A mature person of high professional discipline and moral integrity, able to work under stress as the situation may dictate.
- Must possess the practicing license or qualifying certificate.
- Certificate in reproductive health is an added advantage.
Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:
- Two to three years experience in clinical medicine or public health.
- Proven experience in community-based programming with the ability to motivate and lead community volunteers.
- Ability to work with displaced communities with diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
- Experience in working in a team.
- Flexible to travel and work in different locations.
- Ability to speak local languages will be added advantage.
- Proficiency in computer skills, especially in MS Word and Excel is an added advantage.
Language Skills:
- Able to communicate in English language (written and spoken);
- Knowledge of local languages is a plus
- Certificates or Licenses:
- Diploma in Nursing /midwifery/clinical medicine
Working Environment:
- The position is based in Mubi Adamawa state with frequent travel to other IRC field sites. Successful candidate will be required to work 8 hours daily and 6 hours on Fridays.
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