Support Technical specialist, Nutrition - CMAM at Family Health International (FHI 360) in Nigeria

Project Explanation

• Northeast Nigeria is at present facing an expanding humanitarian crisis with a vast number of Internally Displaced Persons in need of crisis support.
• These IDPs are living among organizer networks, lacking entry to livelihoods and assets, ultimately top to unprecedented levels of malnutrition and food insecurity.
• FHI 360 possesses been operating in Nigeria for over 30 years and is now expanding initiatives in Borno state to address the IDP crisis.    
• FHI 360 is expanding its proficiency by responding to this humanitarian crisis through the offering critical life-saving Nutrition interventions.

Basic Operation

Role is in charge of treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) with and without complications, offer nutrition rehabilitation among admitted SAM cases and prevent further deterioration through offering of therapeutic feeds, standard procedure and expert medicines. The candidate will supervise health and dietary counseling, skills development of CMAM assistants.

Obligations and Duties

• Head group outreach initiatives, mid-upper arm circumference screening/Active case finding for malnutrition in children under-5.
• Offering of OTP solutions in target networks and Internally Displaced Persons camp. Carry out defaulter tracing, client engagement visits and supply key messages at the OTP on-site.
• Supervise prompt recognition of complications, non-responder, and two-way client recommendations to the stabilization center (SC) based on set evaluation benchmarks
• Formulate Group Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) workplan, generate trend of malnutrition based on admission, carry-out mortality audit at the OTP
• Assist M & E unit during evaluations, target group discussion which includes project setup and entry of prompt documentation.
• Assist M & E unit during evaluations, target group discussion which includes project setup and entry of prompt documentation. Ensure suitable recordkeeping of solutions and constantly track OTP effectiveness and result indicators.
• Assist efficient management of SAM children with complications at the Stabilization unit
• Ensure accurate clinical diagnosis, complete health checks and suitable treatment according to procedures of the patients while in the programme.
• Verify that every evaluation benchmarks are respected and comprehend, which includes admission, discharge and move to and from the OTP/Stabilization Center (SC).
• Carry-out routine ward-round and formulate 24-hour call-responsibility roster for CMAM-SC support.
• Take on a weekly basis and every month physical stock of all nutrition inventory making sure inventory levels are accounted for, ensure adequate accessibility of all medical and food inventory and ensure inventory is pre-positioned as organized by discussing with logistics.
• Supervise project setup of safe therapeutic milk and food for admitted SAM children and caregivers respectively.
• Collaborate with CMAM support’s at SC to guarantee all procedures are comprehend and accepted and suitable client recommendations take place to and from the Out-patient therapeutic programme (OTP).
• Ensure complete health checks, checking Vitals, regular medicines and feed management and treatment according to the procedures.
• Documentation on advancement and any challenges without delay
• Address questions regarding the technical components of the programme admission and discharge whenever necessary.
• Modify patients forms and file which includes the critical care pathway (CCP) card, OTP check in cards among to guarantee finalization, precision, coherence and to track patient advancement.
• Offer key health and education messages to recipients base the procedure and standard procedures.
• Assemble the statistical data (admission, default, cured, absent, death) and prepare a documentation on initiatives
• The incumbent will assist Standardized Supervising and Evaluation of Relief and Transition (SMART), Semi-Quantitative Assessment of Entry and Coverage (SQUEAC) and other nutrition surveys at LGA level
• Other obligations as allocated.

Additional Duties:

This role summary is not intended to be comprehensive and the employee will also execute other associated duty as necessary and in charge of status updates and information exchange of advancement and accomplishment of the specific delegated responsibility. Inform TO HNS of any specialist challenges encountered.