About Première Urgence – Aide Médicale Internationale (PU-AMI):

Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit, non-political, and non-religious international aid agency. PU-AMI’s teams are committed to assisting civilians’ victims of marginalization and exclusion, or hit by natural disasters, wars and economic breakdowns, by answering their fundamental needs. Moreover, the organization seeks to provide emergency help to uprooted people in order to help them regain their dignity and retrieve self-sufficiency.

Job Details:

Position Title:               Health Promoter  

Job Location:                 Kabul

Nationality:                     Afghan

Category:                       HealthCare

Employment Type:         Full-time

Salary:                            According to the organization’s salary scale

Vacancy No:                   PU-AMI/HR/KABUL/001279

Organization:                  PU-AMI

Working experience:       One year

Contract duration:           5 months

Gender:                           Male/Female

Closing date:                   27 January 2021

Job Summary

(PU-AMI) is hiring 24 Health promoters who will work in Kabul. Interested and eligible applicants can read the details and apply accordingly.

Job Description:

Objective 1: Health Promotion Activities

Activities/Main duties:

• Participate in the development and adaptation of IEC material, following MoPH standards and guidelines
• Organize health and hygiene promotion sessions using the existing material, and adjusting his/her communication to the audience (adults, children,)
• Organize demonstrations of best practices related to health and hygiene behaviors.
• Hold health promotion sessions and explain the most critical time for handwashing.
  Conduct health education sessions and promote awareness concerning the prevention of diseases.
• Record attendance of health and hygiene promotion sessions
• Report any challenge and issue to the team leader or project supervisor.

Objective 2: Patient Management and Triage

Main duties:

• Respect the PU-AMI Standards of Procedures for referral and quarantine of covid19 patients.
• Conduct short awareness sessions to the patients regarding Covid-19 messages in different waiting areas as much as possible.
• Observe the basic medical rules of screening and use a thermometer when performing screening.
• Facilitate priority to emergency patients

Objective 3: Reporting and Registration 

Activities:

• Count and register each patient/client in the screening register book.
• Prepare weekly and monthly reports and submit it on time to the provincial office.
• Keep a copy of monthly and weekly activity reports.

Objective 4: Provide Hygiene Education

Activities/Main duties:

• Sensitize the community on the importance of proper hygiene, the hazards of poor hygiene, and the best methods of precluding these dangers.
• As a health promoter, you may employ simple methods such as teaching them how to prevent the COVID-19, how to apply COVID-19 standard measures, prepare and store food, how to treat drinking water, how to dispose of waste, and how to react to disease outbreaks i.e. COVID-19
• Sharing needs lists with relevant Logistics teams.

Objective 5: Distribute Hygiene Kits

Main duties:

• Distribute hygiene kits to the targeted health facility population.
• Orient patient/client distributed the hygiene kit.
• Perform needs analysis in order to establish the nature and the quantities of the kits required.

Qualifications and requirements

• Minimum 14th class, Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject such as nursing, public health, medical, education, social sciences, or a closely related field is desirable.
• One year prior knowledge/training/experience on health, hygiene, community development.
• Robust communication skills.
• Good listening skills.
• Sensitivity to the needs and priorities of diverse groups in the community.
• Understanding of gender issue.

Numeric, literacy and recordkeeping skills.

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How to apply?

Interested and eligible candidates should submit a CV and a cover letter mentioning in the subject line the (Position Title and Vacancy Number) to afg.recruitment@pu-ami.org. Late applications or those without a subject line will not be considered.

Note: there is no need for certificates to be submitted at this stage; they will be requested if you are shortlisted.

Only those short-listed will be called.

Submission email: afg.recruitment@pu-ami.org