IYCF-E Officer 77 views

ROLE PURPOSE: 

·       Provide IYCF counselling with the health extension workers and Other CMAM Teams.

·       Support and Work closely with HDAs, mother to mother support groups within existing HDA structure, local committees, etc

·       Participate in providing IYCF technical support to Woredas, SCI and partners CMAM IYCF

·       Ensure that all staff understand and implement the IYCF program guidelines

·       Ensure appropriate and consistent education messaging to mothers (at PHC, Hospitals, HCs and community levels)

·       Advise the best feeding options/ practices and follow ups as appropriate

·       Participate in the development of mother support groups and mother-baby areas.

·       Participate in developing regular work plans for the HWS, HEWs, CMAM officer, HDAs, mother to mother support groups etc.

·       Spot and address appropriately the violations of the code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes and violations of the MOH guidelines

  • Provision of timely update to CMAM officer
  • Work by engaging community, government and other stakeholders.

·       Act as an effective member in promoting, supporting and protecting IYCF practices (give IYCF awareness sessions and IYCF individual counselling sessions as necessary).

·       Give support to CMAM team members as necessary especially on community mobilization activities

·       Ensure that IYCF tools are properly utilized and documented; prepare IYCF reports regularly and submit to CMAM coordinators

·       Link between CMAM team and IYCF team (such as promoting excellent communication and referral between IYCF counsellor, IYCF educator and CMAM)

·       Assist in the development and review of educational material (IEC /BCC)

·       Prepare training materials and conduct IYCF trainings when necessary

standard guidelines

·       Provide mothers with practical advice on correct attachment and positioning when   breastfeeding, timely introduction of complementary foods and respond to any concerns or local taboos associated with IYCF,

·       Assure the availability of IYCF training and counselling materials prior to any training’

·       Support community assessments related to CMAM & IYCF and strengthen capacity of various health, agriculture, and other sectors’ front-line workers to improve the quality of nutrition intervention

·       Along with other SCI & partner staffs, conduct regular follow up site visits to provide support quality implementation, and document field all through submission of complete, accurate and timely feedback reports;

·       Ensure IYCF indicator well captured and adhere to the national protocol guideline by CMAM team.

·       Make sure that Mothers are counselled with the resource available at HH and proper understand

·       Make sure that Mother who need special counselling are identified, linked and followed well for behaviour change

·       Support the mothers suffering from insufficient milk production with advice on re-lactation

·       Ensures the availability of job aids, reporting formats, therapeutic products and drugs for program implementation at health facility level.

·       Facilitates trainings, workshops, review meetings, community forums under the project,

·       Conduct regular checklist based supportive supervision on targeted health facilities,

·       Facilitate joint monitoring visits /joint supportive supervisions/ in integration with Woreda health office and zonal health department.

·       Generates’ and share supervision reports and feedbacks for project coordinator, zonal/woreda health office and health facilities.

·       Follow and ensures, action taken by all responsible parties on gaps identified during supervision,

·       Supports and liaise with the woreda health office staffs and provide on the job training/coaching and capacity building where required,

·       Working with the CMAM Officer, to ensure CMAM beneficiaries are referred to IYCF services when required.

·       Coordinates the link of acute malnutrition cases with EOS/CBN/CHD/TSFP/PSNP and facilitates regular registration of Non-EOS beneficiaries and submits on monthly bases,

·       Supports community mobilization activities (case finding, referral linkage, defaulter tracing, conducting home to home visits and provides health and nutrition educations),

·       Reports any problems in a timely manner to the project Officer and Coordinators,

·       Upholds the image and values of SC at all times,

Performs other related tasks as required,

Job Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE  

·       BSC or Diploma in Nursing, Nutrition, Midwifery or Public Health (Senior Clinical/Public Nurse or above).

·       Minimum of three years working experience for BSc and five years’ experience for Diploma holders related to CMAM and IYCF implementations.

·       Work experience in similar position is advantageous

·       NGO or INGO work experiences are desired

Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply

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