Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Midwifery, Public Health or other relevant qualifications with experience in Public Health and IMAM programming;
  
• Minimum of three (3) years’ experience in in-patient management of SAM cases with Medical Complications and IMAM programme implementation;
  
• An excellent report-writing skill is required, including MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
  
• Fluent in written and spoken English and Hausa.
  

• Ensure that the referred SAM children from other health facilities or community health workers are re-diagnosed and documented appropriately.
  
• Ensure that the admission criteria into a stabilization centre according to the national IMAM Protocol and WHO guidelines are followed.
  
• Support the stabilization centre medical team on deciding properly about the malnutrition status of SAM children and referrals to other components of IMAM (SC/OTP/SFP) by ensuring strict compliance with the recommended discharge criteria.
  
• Boldly indicate on the wall all the available OTP in the LGA for appropriate referral of SAM children to OTP nearest to their home.
  

• Ensure that adequate supplies are available in stabilization centres in collaboration with the SC manager and Nutrition and Health Sector Manager
  
• Ensure that daily record/tally on utilization of each medicine and therapeutic feeding product used in SC are available.
  
• Prepare weekly / monthly utilization, requisition and stock report for therapeutic feeding products, medicines and medical equipment with validation from the SC manager
  
• Liaise with ACTION AGAINST HUNGER pharmacist for supplies with adequate anticipation.
  

• Support Nutrition and Health Manager in facilitating and organizing technical trainings for SC health workers.
  
• Organize training and refresher session for SC Health Workers on SAM management.
  
• Develop customized need specific guidance notes on delivery service for on job coaching on different modules based on national protocol
  
• Conduct technical on-job coaching of SC health workers on regular basis.
  

• Ensure that all information from initial diagnosis and previous diagnosis/treatments (if referred from OTP) of SAM children coming to the centre are captured in the CCP card and admission register.
  
• Ensure that all data collection tools (i.e. screening registers, patient registers, patient CCP card, patient feeding chart, patient’s diagnosis test reports etc.) are regularly updated and always available at the centre.
  
• Ensure that all actions carried out on any SAM patient are recorded in the patient file no matter how minute.