Community Health Extension Workers at Sydani Group

Sydani Group is a management consulting firm founded by seasoned international developmentprofessionals with over 30 years combined experience and demonstrated expertise in the design and implementation of diverse impactful sustainable policies, programs and practices that drive large-scale development.

At Sydani Group, we are purposefully dedicated to providing client-focused cutting-edge expert solutions to a diversity of global complex problems. Driven by a zeal to succeed, we approach every challenge as a unique opportunity to grow creatively, build resilient systems and contribute to creating sustainable communities and systems rooted in a culture of responsiveness and transparency. Inspired by a vision of a world without limits, Sydani’s team of exceptional high-performing specialists innovatively apply their talents and skills to curate bespoke solutions that set distinctive new standards of excellence across sectors, establishing us as a preferred premium partner.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Community Health Extension Worker

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Contract
Duration of the Contract: One year, with possibility of funding, subject to state funding

Background

• In line with NPHCDA’s goal to improve maternal, newborn and child health indices in Nigeria, NPHCDA seeks to optimize the availability of Skilled Birth Attendants (SBAs) in selected health facilities through the expanded Midwives Service Scheme (eMSS).
• This scheme will increase the availability of adequate, well-motivated and quality Nurses/Midwives and Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) at the Primary Health Care centers in the 36 states plus the Federal Capital territory.

Objective

• The objective is to recruit Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) needed to deliver adequate and quality Minimum Service Package at primary healthcare level and fast track the efforts of the Government of Nigeria in revitalizing the Primary Health Care centres across the country and the achievement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

Responsibilities
Outreach / Community health functions:

• Carry out advocacy activities for promoting maternal and newborn health in the community
• Educate community members on the importance of antenatal care and the need to seek care promptly
• Identify pregnant women in the community and provide antenatal care
• Work with other members of the PHC team to educate the community on danger signs of pregnancy
• Mentor health workers and Community Resource Persons (CORPs) on midwifery skills
• Ensure that eligible children in the community are immunized
• Conduct community-based growth-monitoring of children under 5
• Conduct home visits to mothers within the first few days of delivery and follow-up on sick children and other clients that visited the clinic
• Follow-up clients that were referred for higher levels of care on their return to the community
• Conduct awareness in the community on nutrition, exclusive breastfeeding, complementary feeding, deworming of children and vitamin supplementation A
• Educate the community on the need for pregnant women and children to sleep under LLINs and the benefit of IPT for pregnant women
• Educate community on water and environmental sanitation activities

Clinical functions:

• Triage patients who come to the facility to receive treatment.
• Assist the midwives in providing services at the facility.
• Manage clients according to standing order.
• Assist midwives in taking delivery.

 Administrative:

• Ensure that the catchment map of the facility of deployment is available in the facility (to be developed by the facility team and the WDC)
• Compile the profiles of all pregnant women, newborns and under5 children in the community by identifying and registering all the above-mentioned.
• Mobilize and track pregnant women in the community and ensure that they visit the health centers at least four times before their delivery, follow-up with them after delivery and ensure that all under 5 children are fully immunized
• Educate communities on key household practices e.g., hand washing, exclusive breastfeeding, use of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) etc.
• Register and report births in the community that did not take place at the health center
• Report all cases on maternal and newborn death in the community to the health center
• Report outbreak of diseases
• Ensure that births and deaths in the community are officially registered
• Attend ward development committee meetings
• Supervise and organize meetings with the community resource persons
• Maintain link between clinic and community resource persons (CORPs) in the community
• Assist in collating, analyzing, and interpreting National Health Management Information System (NHMIS)
• Be accountable to the officer in charge of the supervising facility
• Submit joint reports monthly to the LGA PHC department together with the midwives in the facility.

Eligibility Criteria
The ideal candidate must:

• Have a minimum of Diploma in Community Health.
• Have at least 3 years experience in providing reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health plus nutrition (RMNCH+N) services.
• Have a valid professional license to practice.
• Be at least 18 years old (retired CHEWs are encouraged to apply).

Application Closing Date
30th September, 2022.