Médecins Sans Frontières At Community Health Educator

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Job Title: Médecins Sans Frontières At Community Health Educator
Organisation: Community Health Educator
Location: Borno State
Min Work Experience: 2 year(s)
Qualification: Not Specified
Industry: NGO/ Community Service
Course: Related Discipline
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Médecins Sans Frontières is a private, international organisation. The organisation is made up mainly of doctors and health sector workers and is also open to all other professions which might help in achieving its aims. Médecins Sans Frontières provides assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict. They do so irrespective of race, religion, creed or political convictions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Community Health Educator

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Employment Type: Full-time

Main Purpose

  • Prepare, provide and present health education sessions to the population/patients according MSF principles and values in order to promote health information through health measures and hygiene conditions as well as provide information about MSF activities in order to facilitate access to healthcare

Accountabilities

  • Prepare material and deliver health education sessions, messages and topics addressed to different populations regarding hygiene, diseases and prevention.
  • Ensure all the patients and caretakers are well informed, according to protocols, about health related issues and services provided.
  • Monitor health situation and living conditions of the population by conducting nutritional screening, collecting information related to food security, checking vaccination status of children, looking actively for any defaulters in programs that require this type of research, collecting information on number of people arriving or leaving the community, births and deaths in the community, etc.
  • Identify people with medical problems, contact with medical team and report for immediate transfer if needed. He/she has to inform to the line manager about any problem encountered (population, equipment, material…).
  • Report to line manager of all results of screening and visits on a regular basis.

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities

  • Strengthening the link between community and MSF and its activities:
  • Responsible for health education activities in the selected communities about MSF and different health topics.
  • Home visit/follow up to ATFC non-respondents/defaulters and TB patients.
  • Home visit/follow up to all eligible patients discharged in the ITFC
  • Organize meeting/capacity building sessions with the community leaders, community key people in the target communities.
  • Support the HP activities of ATFC/ITFC to ensure patients and caretakers receive good quality communication.
  • Implement health education and awareness campaigns, of specific health days in both facility and communities.
  • Participate in community-based surveillance during outbreaks.
  • Report to line manager of any constrain and results of activities on a regular basis.

Minimum Required Skills and Qualifications
Educational Qualification:

  • Essential: Literacy. An internal MSF training on health messages will be necessary.
  • Desirable: Diploma in Community Health, health education or CHW training (done by MoH or NGO) will be an asset

Experience:

  • Desirable: 2 years working experience in a similar position.

Languages:

  • Essential: Fluent in English, Hausa and Kanuri
  • Desirable: Shuwa and Ngamargu

Competences:

  • Results oriented, Teamwork, Flexible, Committed, Stress Management

Application Closing Date
8th January, 2025; 5:00 PM.

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