Job Summary

The Health Officer will be responsible for planning, implementing, monitoring, supervising, and reporting on emergency health interventions at health facility, outreach, and community levels. The position holder will ensure the delivery of quality primary health care services, strengthen disease prevention and outbreak response, support capacity building of health workers, and improve health system performance in accordance with national guidelines and project objectives.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

1. Clinical and Primary Health Care Service Delivery

• Provide comprehensive outpatient (OPD) and inpatient (IPD) medical consultations, including history taking, physical examination, diagnosis, treatment, and referral services.

• Manage acute, chronic, and life-threatening illnesses according to national treatment protocols and clinical guidelines.

• Deliver primary health care services at health facilities, outreach sites, and internally displaced persons (IDP) locations.

• Support the management of sick children in accordance with Integrated Management of Newborn and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) and Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) guidelines.

• Provide technical support and mentorship to health workers on patient assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and quality patient care.

2. Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Services

• Support the provision of antenatal care (ANC), postnatal care (PNC), delivery services, essential newborn care, family planning counseling, and contraceptive services.

• Promote iron supplementation, tetanus toxoid (TT) vaccination, and other maternal health interventions.

• Support routine and outreach immunization activities.

• Strengthen referral mechanisms for obstetric emergencies and maternal, newborn, and child health complications.

3. Public Health Emergency Management and Disease Surveillance

• Support disease surveillance, outbreak preparedness, detection, reporting, and response activities.

• Update and monitor outbreak surveillance charts and reporting tools.

• Strengthen community awareness of epidemic-prone diseases and preventive health measures.

• Support the implementation of Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) activities at facility and community levels.

• Contribute to risk identification, early outbreak detection, and emergency health response activities.

4. Health Facility Strengthening and Supply Management

• Assess and ensure the availability of essential medicines, Interagency Emergency Health Kits (IEHK) supplies, infection prevention and control (IPC) materials, Health Management Information System (HMIS) tools, case definitions, and technical guidelines.

• Support health facilities in maintaining quality standards for service delivery.

• Supervise environmental health activities and infection prevention and control practices.

• Monitor the functionality of outpatient departments (OPD), maternal and child health (MCH) units, surveillance units, supply chain systems, and other service delivery units.

5. Capacity Building and Technical Support

• Prepare training plans, training schedules, and Terms of Reference (TORs) based on approved project budgets.

• Conduct training, on-the-job coaching, mentoring, and supportive supervision for health workers, Health Extension Workers (HEWs), and community volunteers.

• Identify technical gaps and provide targeted capacity-building support.

• Support community-based health volunteers in implementing community health activities.

6. Coordination and Partnership

• Work closely with Woreda Health Offices, health facilities, community structures, and other stakeholders.

• Participate in coordination meetings, technical working groups, and review forums.

• Support emergency assessments, joint assessments, and health sector evaluations.

7. Reporting, Documentation, and Information Management

• Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly activity reports.

• Support the preparation of assessment reports, training reports, success stories, community campaign reports, IPPT updates, HEA dashboards, and Health and Nutrition 5W matrices.

• Ensure proper documentation and filing of project records and reports at woreda and health facility levels.

• Maintain updated profiles and records of health facilities, OPD services, MCH units, stabilization centers, surveillance units, and project achievements.

• Support the compilation and submission of routine HMIS and project reports.

Job Requirements

Educational Qualifications

• Medical degree or a related qualification, with a minimum of three years of relevant experience.

Required Professional Experience

• At least 3 years of relevant work experience in risk identification, outbreak detection, PHEM, OPD consultations, ICCM/IMNCI, maternal health, and supply chain management.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Experience in mobile health and nutrition interventions, including screening, risk communication, outpatient and inpatient consultations, outreach Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), health education, sanitation, and child health.

• Certificates or training in EDKs management, PHEM, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), and IPC are an asset.

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