Stabilization Centre Officer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Midwifery, Medicine, Public Health or other relevant qualifications with experience in Public Health and CMAM programming;
  
• Minimum of three (3) years’ experience in in- patient management of SAM cases with Medical Complications and CMAM programmes implementation;
  
• Valid practicing license;
  
• Excellent report-writing skills is required;
  
• Fluent in written and spoken English, Hausa and/or Kanuri;
  
• Good Communication and Interpersonal skills;
  
• Team management experience with similar programs;
  
• Commitment to and understanding of ACTION AGAINST HUNGER’s aims, values and principles;
  
• Working knowledge of Word, Excel, Power Point is required.
  

• 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 CMAM protocol and WHO guidelines, are followed;
  
• Support the stabilization centre medical team in deciding properly about the malnutrition status of SAM children and referrals to other components of CMAM (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 dispensing of sugar water and F75 upon admission is in place;
  
• Ensure appropriate diagnosis and monitoring of hypothermia, hypoglycaemia, dehydration, severe anaemia, and take timely action to prevent and treat those complications using the protocol strictly in collaboration with SC doctors;
  
• Follow up of the anthropometric measurement of the children (weight, MUAC, checking bilateral oedema, and W/H percentage) to ensure consistent weight gain in collaboration with the SC team;
  
• Closely follow up and monitor to ensure that all the necessary information on the registration book, treatment sheet, follow-up card at admission and discharge is recorded for each beneficiary;
  
• Provide technical coaching to the nurses and nurse aids on calculation, preparation of therapeutic milk, and distribution and monitoring of feeding according to the standard protocol for the SAM children.
  
• Ensure that SC nurses and nurse aids are encouraging breastfeeding practices.
  
• Train nurses and nurse aids on supplementary suckling technique (SST) and ensure SST for mothers facing breastfeeding challenges;
  
• Ensure that the systematic treatment and drugs are given correctly to all patients in collaboration with SC doctors;
  
• Ensure caregivers are regularly given feedback on the status of their children.