Community Health Educator - South

Main Purpose

Prepare, provide and present health education sessions to the population/patients according MSF principles and values in order to promote health information through health measures and hygiene conditions as well as provide information about MSF activities in order to facilitate access to healthcare

Accountabilities

• Prepare material 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 population by conducting nutritional screening, 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 screening and visits on a regular basis.

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities

• Providing health education sessions to patients at health facilities (Haifa hospital maternity OPD, PHCCs, and dispensaries) and Mental health (and medical) Mobile Units (MMUs) based on patient medical needs & interest.

• Ensuring good communication with all other healthcare staff: medical doctor, nurse, midwife, psychologist, and social worker, and actively participating in provision of tailored health education messages to attending patients, preparing or creating tools (game for health education, health movies....).
• Participating in the training sessions for CHE organized by the HPCE supervisor.
• Under the supervision of HPCE supervisor, engage in community-based outbreak response activities, including surveillance activities, preventive health education message, qualitative assessments (i.e. patient experience assessments, FGDs) among the patients and community people to understand and identify community needs, and overall patient satisfaction.
• Working as part of a multidisciplinary team with medical, paramedical and other staff.

Requirements

Education

Literacy essential. An internal MSF training on health messages will be necessary.

Experience

None is required.

Languages                      

English desirable and Arabic essential.

Competencies

• Results
• Teamwork
• Flexibility
• Commitment
• Service
• Stress Management