Job Description

Position title       :            TSFP/MCHN/BSFP Measurer (22)

Reporting to       :            Nutrition Supervisor

Location               :            Baidoa,Burhakaba,Berdale and Qasaxdere

Job summary:

As the Screener for Nutrition the employee is expected to carry out preparation for nutrition activities carried out at SOS Main Hospital. Additionally, s/he will be registering children under 5 years within the program. The employee will work under the guidance of the Nutrition Supervisor.

Responsibilities:

• Check   anthropometric   measures, MUAC, weight, height and check for presence of edema cases   to appropriate structure.
• Record properly all screening results and write daily, weekly, monthly reports.
• Explain purpose of admission
• To ensure that the beneficiary’s details are recorded correctly on the card
• To ensure all equipment is in good working order
• To ensure the site is left clean and tidy
• To take responsibility for all equipment used and to report any problems or broken equipment immediately
• Identify absentees or defaulters and inform the outreach workers
• Organize home visit for absents to avoid them to default from the program.
• Check at home the environment and provide advices to the caretaker: hygiene, health education
• Fix a bracelet with an identification number
• Assist to a feeding time to observe the child and caretaker in their environment and provide advices.
• Receive the patients admitted, together with those accompanying them, and give them information on how the center functions.
• Record in the screening book all beneficiaries screened, and refer them to the appropriate structure using a referral ticket
• Give the patient or the person accompanying him the treatment card, a food ration, and an appointment for the follow-up
• To talk to and reassure the beneficiaries during the weighing and measuring process
• To send ineligible children home/to the clinic if necessary (clearly explain to mother)
• For new or current beneficiaries, to record the measurements accurately on the beneficiary’s card
• To organize the measuring area appropriately
• To ensure there is adequate seating areas for the beneficiaries
• To   carry-out   any   other   duties   and/or   responsibilities   assigned   by   the supervisor

Experiences and Qualifications

Job competencies:

Essential

• Nutrition training certificate or related field and Secondary certificate
• Minimum 2 years of progressive professional experience in doing of OTP screening, or has worked with Nutrition Partner for nutrition Projects
• Excellent command in Somali and English languages
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills
• Ward management skills
• Proactive, result oriented, independent, able to identify and carry out duties with minimum supervision.

Child Safeguarding Policy:

SOS Children’s Villages Somalia holds strict child safeguarding principles and a zero-tolerance policy for conducts of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse in the workplace and other places where the organization’s activities are rendered. Parallel to technical competence, recruitment, selection and hiring decisions will give due emphasis to assessing candidates’ value congruence and thorough background checks, police clearance reference check processes. SOS Children’s Villages organization is committed to safeguarding the rights of the children and therefore, is expected that every individual who joins with SOS Children’s Villages Somalia understands his/her responsibility in protecting and keeping children always safe

Skills Required

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