• Application Deadline:
• Position: Nutrition Assistant



• Job Type Full Time



• Qualification BA/BSc/HND



• Experience



• Location Lagos




• Job Field Medical / Healthcare 
  
  

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