Community Health Educator
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Full Time (On-site)
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1 position
Cox’s Bazar, Chattogram, Bangladesh
Job Description
Company Name: Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Location: Cox`s Bazar (Ukhia)
Job Type: Full-Time
Workplace Type: Full-time
Job ID: IJOB202659603
Accountabilities
Location: Cox`s Bazar (Ukhia)
Job Type: Full-Time
Workplace Type: Full-time
Job ID: IJOB202659603
Accountabilities
- Organize and deliver health education sessions, messages and topics addressed to different populations regarding hygiene, diseases and prevention.
- Ensure all the patients and caretakers are well informed, according to protocols, about health related issues and services provided.
- Monitor health situation and living conditions of the patients and caregiver by collecting information related to food security, checking vaccination status of children, looking actively for any defaulters in programs that require this type of research, collecting information on number of people arriving or leaving the community, births and deaths in the community, etc.
- Identify people with medical problems, contact with medical team and report for immediate transfer if needed. He/she has to inform to the line manager about any problem encountered (population, equipment, material).
- Report to line manager of all results of activity and visits on a regular basis.
- Guaranteeing the confidentiality, impartiality and neutrality of the organization
- Re-presenting MSF within the community population and maintaining good relationship with beneficiaries and the community representative.
- Act as a mediator between the community and medical team in order to deliver effective medical services to the community.
- Flexible to support with medical activities.
- Conduct service promotion through health education session.
- Support medical staff to reduce DAMA cases by counselling.
- Conduct health education session with flipchart in dynamic and creative way.
- Prepare and submit daily, weekly and monthly report.
- Support medical staff to understand patients culture and practice.
- Provide required support to medical staff by counselling the patients.
- Conduct hygiene education during meal time and prevent eating in the department.
- Inform and encourage patients and caregiver about IPC protocol and Visitor policy.
- Sensitize patients, caregiver and community people about Patients rights, responsibility and feedback process.
- Inform patients and community people about hospital etiquette, hospital rules and regulation.
- Take part of the patients satisfaction survey and other health related survey in the hospital.
- Support medical team to find out patients attendance of unattended patients in urgent situation.
- Support and counselling the referral patients and link between the patients and their relatives while PSS and nurses facing difficulties.
- Identifying the gaps and barriers prohibiting patients and community people from accessing the full range of services that are available to them and advocate to relevant department.
- Support community outreach activities when required.
- Experience: At least 2 years
- Education: bachelor of social science in sociology
- Skills: responsibilities, medical staff supervision, community health, public health management, patient care, community outreach, disease prevention & public health advocacy, patient care, medical affairs, patient advocacy
Requirements
Company Name: Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Location: Cox`s Bazar (Ukhia)
Job Type: Full-Time
Workplace Type: Full-time
Job ID: IJOB202659603
Accountabilities
- Organize and deliver health education sessions, messages and topics addressed to different populations regarding hygiene, diseases and prevention.
- Ensure all the patients and caretakers are well informed, according to protocols, about health related issues and services provided.
- Monitor health situation and living conditions of the patients and caregiver by collecting information related to food security, checking vaccination status of children, looking actively for any defaulters in programs that require this type of research, collecting information on number of people arriving or leaving the community, births and deaths in the community, etc.
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