Nutrition Assistants at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international, private, non-governmental, non-profit humanitarian organization. Our organization offers assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters, to victims of armed conflict, without discrimination irrespective of race, religion, creed or political affiliation.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Nutrition Assistant

Location: Ganjuwa, Bauchi
Employment Type: Full-time

Scope of Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Prepare meals for MSF staff, according to hygiene standards and security rules, in order to ensure their nutritional needs as follows:

• Carrying out basic health care (swabbing, feeding, and applying local treatments, etc.) following the rules on hygiene and asepsis.
• Informing caretakers on the functioning of the centre: lay out, daily activity plan (number and frequency of the meals, medical visit, weight measurement, etc.) and other general information.
• Distributing meals according to medical prescriptions for each patient, ensuring that no other food is given in place. Reporting on daily basis, the intake of the patients under nutritional treatment.
• Providing hygienic training and sanitation education to children, mothers and the targeted population and stimulating mothers to breast-feed.
• Monitoring and reporting weight and other vital indicators, if necessary, (temperature, heart and respiratory rates) of each patient.
• Applying the correct procedures in the event of a fever or hypothermia and reporting to the nurse pathologic symptoms such as, apathetic, anorexia, not drinking, vomiting, fever, dehydration, diarrhea, etc.
• Preparing ORS or Resomal when required.
• Supervising drinking water availability in the ward, and ensuring it is well identified.
• Supervising the maintenance of clean premises and materials
• Performing minor maintenance and cleaning of the biomedical equipment following user manual and protocols.
• Alerting the supervisor in case of malfunctioning of any device.
• MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities:
• Support in making sure patients supplies are available in different wards,
• Help as much as possible the new recruited staff assigned in the same room.
• Orientation of decharged patients to vaccination unit.
• Support in patient registration and service orientation
• Responsible for the preparation, distribution and monitoring of feeding of hospitalized patients,
• Patients surveillance (Vital signs),
• Bed making,
• Support in nasogastric feeding process,
• Cleaning of medical equipment when necessary,
• Support in promoting patient comfort.

Minimum Requirements

• Literacy and sound knowledge on nutrition protocols
• Experience working in MSF or other NGO’s and in developing countries is desirable
• Knowledge of English and local language essential

Application Closing Date
19th November, 2024.