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Job Description

The Nutrition Counsellor will provide messages on appropriate feeding practices to pregnant and lactating mothers, caregiver of malnourished children and community people in Zabul province – Afghanistan.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Helps to identify needs for breastfeeding counselling and provide adequate counselling
• Facilitates sessions on nutrition, health and hygiene good practices to pregnant and lactating women and caregiver of malnourished children attending the Out-patient Therapeutic Programme (OTP) sites
• To provide one on one breastfeeding counselling for mothers experiencing difficulties in breastfeeding, including demonstration and breastfeeding techniques and supporting re-lactation 
• Facilitate the scheduling of outreach worker/volunteer for follow-up of caregiver of children with breastfeeding difficulties at home.
• Identify mothers to become peer educators in their home villages, and to support them to undertake sensitization and referral to the Mother Baby Area
• To refer children for intensive nutritional/medical care as required
• To train outreach worker and volunteers on best practices for infant and young child feeding
• Prepare daily/weekly reports on activities and any necessary reports as requested by the MAM

• Attend training and team meeting as requested.
• Register and undertake growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) including measure weight, height, age and check edema of all children under two years of age.
• Conduct GMP based counseling of mothers/caregivers of all children under two years of age on appropriate Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) practices and infection prevention.
• If the child is normal, encourage and counsel mother to reinforce and promote age appropriate MIYCN practices
• If child is suffering from SAM, refer to the doctor of the clinic for giving adequate treatment and counselling.
• Counsel mothers/ caregiver to bring under two children for the continues monthly GMP visit
• Undertake Mid Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) of children 6-59 Month of age
• Check whether child has received Vitamin A supplementation during the previous NID, if no then refer to the administrator of Vitamin A in clinic
• Conduct complementary feeding demonstration once per month

Counselling on Maternal Nutrition

• Measure lactating mothers MUAC, weight, height and find BMI and categories as normal, underweight, overweight and obese after the first PNC till the mother breastfeed her child
• Provide individualized nutrition counselling on appropriate practices, based on the BMI findings.
• Check whether lactating mother receive adequate IFA tablets during three months after delivery.

At the Community level:

• Work and coordinate with Community Health Supervisors (CHSs) and Community Health Workers (CHWs) during the CHW monthly meetings (as much as possible) to:
• To Share the GMP defaulter cases list with CHW and follow up
• To ensure that the GPM session conducted in community by CHW regularly.
• Mentoring CHWs on topics such as GMP, counseling skills, proper home visit

Recording and Reporting:

• Maintain regular reports to monitor and track delivery of nutrition services.
• Using MCH handbook reporting in provinces the MCH handbook apply.
• Identify beneficiaries which require follow-up visits and share information with CHSs/CHWs within the catchment area of the MHT/SDPs.

Skills Required

• Communication Skills
• Hardworking

Submission Guideline:

Respected Applicants, please visit the link below and fill in the required information.

https://forms.gle/8KSmNG32e4Tkhcp28

Please note that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted and called for a test/Interview.

Qualified People with Physical Disabilities and Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply

Note: This position is only for Kabul residents 

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