Support Technical specialist, Nutrition at Family Health International (FHI 360) in Bama, Borno

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 incumbent will engage in and will collaborate with other team members in the dispatch of most effective infant and young child feeding in crisis. The candidate will supervise health and dietary counseling, skills development of CMAM and IYCF 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.
• 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
• 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.
• Head and organize the facilitation of group IYCF assist group initiatives.
• Recognize development needs and build technical capacity of IYCF Assistants, assist group supporters, group nutrition mobilizers, and Head persons.
• Direct proficient IYCF aid offerings which includes Growth Advancement and Supervising at IYCF corners/spaces and other reach out points. 
• Arrange and engage in food presentation sessions periodically.
• Carry out consistent target group discussions with recipients to evaluate obstacles to most effective IYCF uptake.
• Assist the development of IYCF multimedia messages which includes radio jingles.
• Ensure Gender integration in nutrition, and consolidation of other sectors.
• Assist the development of case studies and success stories from programme execution.
• Engage in group dialogue, sensitize participants/group on IYCF-E initiatives and specific humanitarian programs executed by FHI 360.
• 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 FC of any specialist challenges encountered.