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Vaccinator / IMNCI Nurse for static clinic

Date Posted: May 06, 2024
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  • Location:
    Dikondi
  • Company:
    MEDAIR
  • Type:
    Contract
  • Shift:
    Rotating Days
  • Career Level:
    Entry Level Staff
  • Positions:
    1
  • Vacancy number:
  • Experience:
    2 Year
  • Gender:
    Any
  • Salary:
    As per company salary scale Af
  • Degree:
    Bachelors
  • Apply Before:
    May 15, 2024
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About MEDAIR

About MEDAIR:

Medair is an international humanitarian organization established in 1988. Medair has been operating in Afghanistan since 1996 with programs mainly in the Health, Water & Sanitation, and Livelihoods sectors with significant reconstruction activities in remote areas. Current projects are Water & Sanitation, Food Security, & Disaster Risk Reduction

Medair Afghanistan has been operating since 1996 and currently works in three provinces: Daykundi, Uruzgan, and Kandahar. The country's main office is in Kabul, with multiple field offices. Medair implements WASH, Food Security, Health and Nutrition programming.

Job Description

Technical: To provide vaccination for all eligible children and women

  • Implement and observe national guidelines and norms on EPI.
  • Assist the  Supervisor in the development of the EPI micro plan.
  • Determine appropriate vaccine type and dose volume for each client.
  • Carry out vaccination of children and women according to guidelines.
  • Organize the follow up vaccination consultations if needed.
  • Recognize, respond, and alert emergency medical personnel of possible post vaccination reactions.
  • Fill out tally sheets of vaccination daily.
  • Document vaccinations on register and immunization cards for each patient.
  • Refer mothers of reproductive age and children ANC/PNC service if necessary.
  • Support Beneficiaries and CHNWs with health education and counseling on vaccines and their importance.
  • Ensure adherence to the provided protocols and guidelines.
  • Compile reports as required.

 

Quality Management and Logistic: Storage and Transportation of Vaccines 

 

  • Ensure vaccines are stored in adequate conditions respecting hygiene, temperature, and storage regulations.
  • Verify quality of vaccinations and reject damaged or compromised vaccines.
  • Ensure expiry dates of vaccines are respected.
  • Ensure cold chain of vaccines from Medair stock or health facility to field site.
  • Before leaving the office ensure that all materials are ready.
  • After the field visit, clean and prepare equipment for following day.
  • Ensure accurate record keeping of stock movements.

 

Others: any other tasks which may be given by the Supervisor

  • Support other team members with basic clinic tasks (screening, registration of patients, crowd control, etc. …)
  • Support team in ensuring timely and high-quality reports.

Ensure accurate record keeping of all Health & nutrition activities, filling in forms, cards, registration books and tally sheets as required

Job Requirements

Education

  • Graduated from initial vaccination course at the National EPI program, nursing, or equivalent medical training. Basic written English skills

 

Relevant experience

  • At least 2-years relevant post graduate experience
  • BPHS experience will be an additional asset
  • EPI & IMNIC training.
  • Experience/Knowledge of EPI program

 

Languages

  • Fluent in Dari/Pashto-oral and written skills
  • Good English & Dari/pashto -oral and written skills

 

 

Computer

  • Working knowledge in MS word and excel

 

Other skills

  • Ability to work in a team and coordinate tasks and responsibilities.
  • Ability to organize people in an orderly way and prioritize tasks.
  • Good listening and counselling skills, patient, and kind attitude
  • Highly motivated to provide high quality services to beneficiaries of poor communities in a challenging setting.
  • Good problem-solving skills with a solution-oriented attitude
  • Flexible and willing to perform other tasks as required.
  • Respectful and kind with other staff, beneficiaries, and communities
  • Willingness to travel, work and live in a rural setting, and to behave in a manner appropriate to a conservative culture.
  • Willingness to learn and develop further.
  • Transparent in dealing with beneficiaries and Medair staff.
  • Honest and dependable, with strong anti-fraud principles and high level of integrity.

Skills Required

Submission Guideline:

nterested applicants should apply and forward their applications through the online JOB APPLICATION FORM which could be found under the submission email. The link should be copied, pasted and opened in a new page.

Note: Please indicate the position tittle and vacancy number in your application letter. Applications received after the closing date or without the exact position title and vacancy number will not be given consideration. After submitting the online application, if some applicants do not immediately receive an automatic email from Medair, they shouldn't worry about their submission. When you open the link. please use the dropdown menu and choose the tittle of the position.

Note: 

Medair will provide the following benefits for the selected candidate:

  • Competitive salary 
  • Employment benefits such as (medical, transportation, economic hardship, food, Mahram and accommodation for non-residents)
  • Annual leave, sick leave, maternity leave, and other types of leave as per Medair policy

Submission Email:

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