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Nutritionist

General

Position: Nutritionist
No of vacancies: 1
Duration: 12 Months (Renewable)
Monthly Gross Salary: INR 65,580/-
Location: Mumbai
Expected Start Date: 1st June 2022
Closing date: 20th May 2022 by 10 PM
Application Form: https://forms.gle/R7qWpSa1S9XoMs447
Email to: msfocb-mumbai@brussels.msf.org

Background

Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters and exclusion from healthcare in more than 70 countries. DWB offers assistance to people in need and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation.

Doctors Without Borders has worked in India since 1999, providing free-of-charge essential healthcare to people in remote areas, treatment and care for people affected by HIV/AIDS, malnutrition, hepatitis C, tuberculosis, kala azar and sexual and gender-based violence. An important subject for our action is containing the effect of antibiotic resistance. We also respond to natural disasters and other emergencies, provide mental healthcare, and advocate for the development of more effective and affordable medicines to improve access to treatment everywhere.

Doctors Without Borders was awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development in 1996 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. Doctor without Borders India (DWBI) runs projects in the states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, and Manipur.

Doctors Without Borders India’s (DWBI) Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (DRTB) project in Mumbai

Free treatment, care and support to DR-TB patients

The collaborative project within NTEP [National Tuberculosis Elimination Program] for DRTB – patient management at Shatabdi Hospital, Govandi – OPD, community outreach medical and patient support activities in M/East Ward area
Medical, “Psychosocial Support” and “Infection Prevention and Control” in GTB Hospital, Sewri
The independent clinic in Govandi to provide free and quality care to the most severe cases of DRTB

Main Tasks & Responsibilities

Designing, implementing and monitoring the nutritional related activities in the project (all the sites of intervention) according to DWBI protocols, standards and procedures in order to improve the nutritional conditions of the target popu-lation.
Make mapping of the stakeholder and linkages for nutritional packages support in collaboration with Patient Sup-port team to ensure all the beneficiaries have socio-nutritional assessment and design proper balance diet accord-ing to local available product and nutritional supplement.
Schedules and organizes all nutrition related activities, in order to efficiently maintain the continuity of the nutritional healthcare at the standard quality levels.
Supervise the implementation of the nutritional part of the project programs according to DWBI protocols, standards. This includes:
Draw up outpatients activity planning,
Follow up/monitoring the nutritional evolution of patients and discuss the problem cases taking part in the medical meetings, and install referral system
Check those medical and nutrition prescriptions are carried out.
Check the diffusion, knowledge and application of medical, nutritional and anthropometric protocols.
Reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.
Ensure that the target population is well informed about the functioning of the nutritional intervention, and the state and evolution of the beneficiary’s nutritional health
Supervises, in cooperation with the pharmacist and project medical referent, the nutrition related stock of the pharmacy, ensuring reception and storage of orders (nutritional items), preparing new orders when required, su-pervising expiration terms and consumption patterns, in order to ensure, a rationale use as well as pharmacy stock levels are permanently updated and above minimum safety point.
Ensure correct nutritional data collection (registers, nutritional forms, morbidity forms), compile weekly and monthly statistics for the outpatients unit, report this information to the line manager and provide feedback on the results to the team.
Be the linkage with MEW NGOs/other organizations working in underutrition in community (regular updtae of the stekeholders mapping).
Maintain a register of SAM children admited in hospitals (follow them up in colaboration with DWBI pediatrician)
Nutritional advice for selected patients in MEW and clinic.
Ensure nutritional assessment for all TB patients and proper documentation in files.
Ensure road to health card is implemented for all under 5 years in close coordination with Pediatrician, doctors and nurses.
Social assessment criteria to identify real nutritional need of the patient- How many of our patients have rations and how many don’t to assess the need and see if they can be linked to the center
Implement malnutrition IEC questionnaire.
Make sure key nutrition messages are integrated in the patient conseling component, health promotion and community intervention in the clinic and MEW (shatabdi and AVR hubs-PHCs).
Review and adjust the nutritional indicators or the logframe and make quarterly report/ analysys/action plan of activities to be implemented in the clinic and MEW.
Assess training needs of the medical teams and make/implement an annual training plan for the staff.
Lead the documentation of DWBI experience in nutritional intervention. Active participation in ORs.-nutritional.

Requirements

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics degree with diploma

Experience

Minimum 2 years experience as a Nutritionist.

Specific Skills

Ability to organize and prioritize workload & taking initiative when appropriate
Able to integrate into a multi-cultural team and cooperate with co-workers
Able to work independently as well as part of a team and ability to cope with stress.
Good Punctuality and ability to act with responsibility
Demonstrates flexibility in taking up tasks outside of regular job responsibilities as required and aptitude for humanitarian medical work.
Essential computer skills (especially MS Office MS Word and MS Excel) & reporting skills.
Languages: English, Hindi & Marathi.

HR & Benefits (Non-negotiable)

Monthly Gross Salary: INR 65,580/-
Secondary Benefits as per policies:
- 13th Month Salary/ Festival Bonus
- 18 Annual Leaves
- 12 Casual Leaves
- Other compassionate leaves
- Medical Reimbursement including dependents
- Personal Accidental Insurance including dependents