Goal
Provide Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) and MHSSP counseling services for the SHC MIYCN target clients which comprise caregivers so under two years of children, pregnant, and lactating women. And, providing technical assistance on health education sessions conducted in SHC, and mother-to-mother support groups conducted in the community.
Responsibilities:
Objective 1: Ensuring the provision of MIYCN and MHPSS counseling services for the SHC MIYCN target clients that include caregivers so under two years of children, pregnant, and lactating women:
- Helps to identify needs for breastfeeding counseling and provide adequate counseling
- Facilitates sessions on nutrition health and hygiene good practices for pregnant and lactating women and caregivers of malnourished children attending the IYCF-E at the Health Sub Center- HSC.
- Providing individual To train community outreach officers and volunteers on best practices for infant and young child feeding
- Conducting group sessions on MIYCF topics at the HSCs s
- Referring children and PLWs for required nutritional/medical care within the HSC
- Prepare daily/weekly reports on activities and any necessary reports as requested by the HSC Supervisor
- Conduct psychoeducation and child care practices awareness sessions for beneficiaries and identify appropriate IEC materials and ensure the use of it during each session
- Provide 1:1/ group psychosocial support (PSS) and psychological first aid (PFA) for beneficiaries in psychosocial distress
- Register clients and fill in the logbook; MHPSS register, and carry out initial assessments & screenings using validated tools, and fill out client forms/tools/ tools during and after sessions
Objective 2: Provide technical support for community outreach officers, and community health workers on MIYCN and MHPSS counseling services at the community level.
- Facilitate the scheduling of outreach workers/volunteers for follow-up of caregivers 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 HSC
- To train community outreach officers and volunteers on best practices for infant and young child feeding.
- Responsible for MIYCN program activities record keeping and reporting
Objective 3: Represent ACF
- The professional image of his/her ACF program
- Respect for the principles and values of ACF in the framework of the partnership
- Respect the ACF charter
- Explain to stakeholders and to populations the activities and the objectives of the programs;
Objective 4: any other tasks which may be given by the Supervisor
- Support other team members with basic HSC tasks (screening, registration of patients, crowd control, health education etc. …)
- Support team in ensuring timely and high-quality reports
