Position Summary:
Nutrition Counselor, Provides comprehensive growth monitoring, nutrition counseling, and referrals for children under 2 and lactating mothers. Collaborates with community health teams to promote MIYCN practices.
Essential Responsibilities And Duties:
General
• Register and undertake Growth Monitoring and Promotion (GMP) including measure weight, height, and age and check edema of all children under two years of age.
• Conduct GMP based counselling of mothers/caregivers of all children under two years of age on appropriate Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) practices and infection prevention.
• If the child is normal, Courage mother and counsel to reinforce and promote age appropriate MIYCN practices
• If child is suffering from Sever Acute Malnutrition (SAM), refer to the doctor/nutrition nurse of the clinic for giving adequate treatment and counselling.
• Counsel Mothers/ caregiver to bring their under two children for the continues monthly GMP visit
• If any Case finds like SAM, MAM refer to doctor of the clinic for adequate treatment.
• Check whether child has received Vitamin A supplementation during the previous NID, if no then refer to the administrator of Vitamin A in Clinic
• Conduct Complementary Feeding food demonstrations on monthly base.
Counselling on Maternal Nutrition:
• Measure lactating mothers MUAC, weight, height and find BMI and categories as normal. underweight, overweight and obese after the first PNC till the Mother Breastfeed her child
• Provide individualized Nutrition counselling on appropriate practices, based on the BMI finding
• Check whether lactating Mother receive adequate IFA tablets during three months after delivery
At the Community level:
• Work and coordinate with Community Health Supervisors (CHSs) and Community Health Workers (CHWs) during the CHW monthly meetings to:
• To Share the GMP defaulter cases list with CHW and follow up
• To ensure that the GPM session conducted in community by CHW regularly.
• Mentoring CHWs on topics such as GMP, counselling skills, proper home visit
• Recording and Reporting:
• Maintain regular reports to monitor and track delivery of nutrition services.
•Using MCH handbook reporting in provinces the MCH handbook apply.
