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- Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and provide guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.
- Provide IYCF support and mentorship to other health clinical staff, providing on-the-job training where needed.
- Ensure non-disclosure of any information whatsoever about practices and IRC activities to any other person or organization without permission, except in the normal performance of the service.
- Consistently and proactively monitor/assess the safety and security of the team; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to IRC management and liaising with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for IRC programs.
- Provide IYCF counselling to mothers and caregivers.
- Provide health education to all clients regarding breastfeeding and young child feeding.
- Support nutrition nurse on screen all children and pregnant and lactating women for acute malnutrition using MUAC and refer those who meet the referral criteria for health care services.
- Growth monitoring of all children under 2 years old.
- Take height and weight measurements.
- Lead individual and group nutrition counselling sessions tailored to the needs of clients and caregivers.
- Ensure adherence to infection prevention and control measures.
- Ensure accurate recording of nutrition information in the clinic registers and timely completion of summary reports.
- Identify mothers to become peer educators in their villages and support them to undertake sensitization and work closely with CHWs.
- Train and work with CHWs to ensure consistent messaging regarding best practices for IYCF and CMAM Work with CHWs to Provide ongoing follow-up, basic motivational interviewing, and goal setting with patients/families.
- Secondary school Diploma or equivalent, Nursing Diploma or qualification an advantage but not required
- 2 years of relevant work experience
- Skills to provide sensitive and appropriate counselling, strong communication skills.
- Must be a team player with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure in a stressful environment, displaying patience, compassion, and diplomacy.
- Ability to be innovative, flexible, adaptive, and willingness to work out of hours, sometimes throughout the night.
- Ability to live in challenging conditions and ability to work under difficult, high-pressure situations.
- Ability to lead, train, supervise and facilitate other nursing staff and community health workers in their respective tasks.
- Ability and flexibility to understand the cultural and political environment and to work well with the local health representatives.
- Technical Competency
- Communication and reporting skills
- Fluency in Pashto, Dari and English
- Computer skills (including MS Word, Excel, Access, and internet) an advantage.
- Ability to work closely, professionally, and constructively with all others regardless of nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion, race, tribe, or cultural background.
- Compliance with the IRC WAY (our standards for professional conduct) is a responsibility shared by all involved in delivering on the IRCs mission. We must abide by the IRC Way and Safeguarding Policies all the time.
- The IRC has zero tolerance approach to the IRC Code of Conduct including safeguarding violations being committed by its staff, consultants, contractors, volunteers, interns, suppliers, vendors, sub-grantees/partners, implementing partners or any other associate.
IYCF Counsellor – Female - Helmand, Afghanistan - International Rescue Committee
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Requisition ID: req45917
Job Title: IYCF Counsellor – Female ( Afghan Nationals Only )
Sector: Health
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Helmand, Afghanistan
Work Arrangement: In-person
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