Federal Ministry of Health Recruits Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW) For Borno State

Federal Ministry of Health Recruits Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW) For Borno State – Federal Ministry of Health Recruits Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW) For Borno State apply now. The Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH)  Collaborating with  Borno State Ministry of Health and relevant stakeholders. Therefore, it has developed an Emergency Health and Nutrition Emergency Response Plan to address  humanitarian crisis in Borno State. The key interventions delivered were:

• Nutrition Care, Management of co-morbidities, provision of basic essential health services,
• In addition to – mental health and psychosocial support, supply of medicines and
• Furthermore, health related commodities,
• Finally, co-ordination and management information system among others.

Consequently, Federal Ministry of Health, seeks to recruit additional Health volunteers for Twelve (12) months in the capacity below:

Federal Ministry of Health Recruits Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW) For Borno State

Job Title: Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW)

Location: Borno

Description
Current emergency intervention program was implemented in two (2) phases over a period of Twelve (12) months, focusing on  most vulnerable populations (women, children under 5, pregnant and lactating mothers) in  most affected areas. Specifically the emergency support was targeted at:

• Firstly, IDPs in camps and host communities.
• Followed by, Host Communities impacted by influx of IDPs

Others include:

• IDPs in make-shift or informal camps
• IDPs that moved out of camps to original communities.
• Refugees returning from countries
• People residing in newly accessible areas.

This intervention, the biggest public sector intervention, was adjudged very successful by all stakeholders. Consequently, His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, has approved the extension and expansion of  scope of the project to sustain and enhance improvement of health outcomes among target population. The expansion has entailed a need for additional human resources that needs to be filled urgently.

Federal Ministry of Health Recruits Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW) For Borno State

Federal Ministry of Health Recruits Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW) For Borno State:

Job Responsibilities

The Volunteer Health Personnel will have the following responsibilities:

• Support  delivery of quality health, Nutrition, Mental Health and Psychosocial support services at Health and Nutrition Emergency Response sites for inhabitants of affected Local Government Areas of Borno State.
• Support development of mechanisms and strategies pursuant to improvement of quality of health services in health facilities according to their levels.
• Furthermore, Provide outreach and mobile health services to various communities in the state in line with existing protocols and standard operating procedures.
• Support the generation of information at health facilities and community levels on the services provided in line with National Health Management Information Systems (NHMIS).
• Support health promotion and community mobilisation with a view to improving community knowledge on health issues and eventual increase in demand for services.
• In gneral, Perform other duties that may be assigned from time to time by the FMOH Management.

Required Qualifications

• Candidates must be a certified Community Health Extension worker
• Letter of recommendation from a reputable citizen or public officer.

Federal Ministry of Health Recruits Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW) For Borno State

Application Closing Date
Saturday, 24th November, 2018.

Interview Date
26th November, 2018.

Method of Application
In continuation, interested and qualified candidates should submit  CV with relevant copies of Credentials. The required documents re to be submitted in triplicate copies and envelope clearly marked stating the position applied for at the “Top Right Hand Corner” with the person’s name written behind and addressed to:

The Honorable Commissioner
Borno State Ministry of Health,
3rd Floor, Musa Usman Secretariat,
Maiduguri – Borno State.

Scanned and soft copies of forwarded documents should be emailed to: [email protected]

Note

• If shortlisted, you will be invited for interview.
• Please note,  selected candidates would embark on a Three (3) day training and orientation exercise from the 27th – 28th of November, 2018 and subsequently deployed to any affected Local Government Areas in the State by December 1st, 2018.
• Staff presently engaged in full time employment need not apply.
• If successful, you  would be subjected to pre-engagement background check.

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Federal Ministry of Health Recruits Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW) For Borno State

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