Senior Nutrition Officer (Doctor)

Requirements

• Medical Degree (MBBS) from a recognized/accredited university in Nigeria and registered with Nigeria Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria Dentist on board
  

Experience

• At least three (2) years post-graduation experience
  

• Daily calculation of the quantity of food needed for the day to day based on the number of children present in phase I and transition or refers the work to somebody who will calculate, and he supervises him.
  

• Order the food for the SC In collaboration with the hospital dietician.
  

• Order the drugs for the SC In collaboration with the pharmacist and the SC matron.
  

• Manage the daily collection of the number of new admissions and exits and attendance from the registrar.
  

• Weekly checks and transmit the statistics to the stabilization center manager
  

• Give feed back to the team and take appropriate action
  

• Compiles monthly reports and submits to sc manager, coordinator and hospital/state leadership
  

• Provision of high-quality care to complicated SAM cases
  

• Provide clinical care to complicated cases of SAM admitted at the stabilization center (SC)
  

• Ensure clinical care provided at the SC is in accordance with the National guidelines for inpatient Management of SAM
  

• Mentor and provide on the- job training on stabilization care and documentation to nurses and other health workers deployed to the SC to ensure:
  

• Respect of approved protocol for management of acute malnutrition
  

• Correct use of programme monitoring and evaluation (recording tool)
  

• Appropriate use of resources, stock control and ordering procedures
  

• Programme Management and Documentation
  

• Monitor the in-patient Management of SAM