JOSEPH ANANKANBIL

Job Purpose

Organize and provide community health (nursing) services to meet the health needs of a defined catchment population.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop caseload/catchment population profile, identify, prioritize, and implement programs of care, and assess, plan, implement, and evaluate programs of care with and for clients in the community, including Maternal and Child Health activities.
• Run family planning, postnatal, and child welfare clinics.
• Nutritional counselling and rehabilitation of under 5 children
• Growth Monitoring of under 5 children
• Social and Behavior Change Communication activities
• Plan and undertake immunization programs to ensure maximum possible protection against disease.
• Manage vaccines and other commodities.
• Manage Public Health and other healthcare-related data using the DHIS2 platform.
• Carry out surveillance to detect diseases and public health events.
• Supervise and implement public health interventions at the sub-district and community level.
• Conduct school hygiene inspections and undertake health education activities.
• Assist in ensuring continuity of care by tracing defaulters and making follow-ups.
• Visits to clients with TB, HIV/AIDS, aged, low birth weight babies and provide appropriate care.
• Liaise with other agencies such as social welfare to assist patients/clients in need of support.
• Counsel individuals with special problems during child welfare clinics and refer them appropriately.
• Give first aid treatment to the community when the need arises
• Educate in-patients with communicable diseases like T.B,HIV/AIDS,Hepatitis, Enteric Fever, AFB in the Wards
• Organizing periodic community mobilization in the catchment area
• Perform emergency deliveries in the hospitals and during home visits when the need arises
• Supervise and administer drugs as necessary, observing the effects and side effects and where appropriate, in consultation with the responsible medical officer, suggest changes in treatment regimes.
• Ensure that the hospital policy in relation to storage, carriage, and administration of drugs is strictly adhered to.
• Ensure all equipment used in the community, syringes, needles, etc. are returned to base and destroyed according to the GHS infection control policy and guidelines.
• Prepare and submit written reports on treatment and progress to immediate supervisor
• Worked with members of the community to determine needs.

• Manage the day-to-day activities of the public health unit
• Plan, implement, and supervise public health interventions in all 6 health facilities
• Manage public health supplies and commodities
• Analys qualitative and quantitative data to identify trends.
• Ensure Timely and Completeness of reporting while ensuring data quality.
• Present on programs at conferences and local government events.
• Prepared program delivery reporting with clear data visualizations.
• Introduce prevention measures to proactively boost health outcomes in a population of 28,000.
• Evaluate program impacts to grow local health resilience.
• Improve population health protection outcomes with comprehensive public health programs.
• Promote sexual health with tailored campaigns and testing options.
• Roll out impactful immunization programs for Communicable Disease Control.
• Supervise a public health workforce of 20.

Rotate and carry out nursing duties in every ward of the hospital:

• Diligently carry out clinical assessments to provide optimal pre- and post-operative care.
• Support patients with critical conditions, planning and implementing targeted strategies for optimal recovery outcomes.
• Collect samples and prepare them for lab analysis.
• Monitor and record patient condition, carrying out and reporting regular observations.
• Assessed and evaluated patient needs, supporting accurate diagnosis and care planning.
• Build caring, compassionate relationships with patients, providing emotional support and encouragement during complex surgeries.
• Work closely with fellow nurses, doctors, and clinicians for consistent communication and continued best care practices.

• Plan and Conduct vaccination sessions
• Perform home visits for clients and patients.
• Monitor the growth of under 5 and intervene appropriately
• Manage malnutrition in children under 5
• Work with community volunteers to detect diseases of public importance
• Provide emergency obstetrics care where appropriate.
• Compile weekly and monthly reports and enter into the DHIS2 platform ensuring data quality at all times.
• Compile community register for purposes of defaulter tracing among others.
• Organize periodic community mobilization to ensure community participation and ownership of healthcare interventions.
• Implement public health interventions at the community level.
• Specialized in providing primary health care to the community.
• Mentor placement students and staff to encourage workplace learning and development.
• Assist in running family planning, postnatal, and antenatal clinics
• Work with members of the community to determine needs.
• Evaluate the ability of existing care plans to cater to complex patient needs, implementing changes as necessary.
• Assist special groups in finding resources.
• Complete patient visits daily to offer trusted care in a home setting.

• Assist in developing caseload/catchment population profile and identify, prioritize, and implement programs of care, planning and carrying out MCH activities
• Assist in the immunization program to ensure maximum possible protection against disease.
• Participate in health education activities
• Assist in the running of family planning, postnatal, and child welfare clinics.
• Counsel individuals with special problems during child welfare clinics and refer them to the appropriate person
• Conduct school hygiene inspection
• Assist in ensuring continuity of care by tracing defaulters and making follow-ups
  visits to clients with TB, HIV/AIDS, aged, low birth weights babies and advising them
  accordingly
• Give first aid treatment to the community when the need arises
• Assist in the deliveries in the hospitals and during home visits when the need arises
• Educate in-patients with communicable diseases like TB, HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis.
• Assist in organizing periodic community mobilization in the catchment area.
• Perform home visits for clients and patients.
• Work with members of the community to determine needs.
• Assisted patients with ongoing care needs to promote speedy recovery.
• Complete patient visits daily to offer trusted care in the home setting.
• Liaise with other agencies like social welfare to assist clients in need of support.
• Prepare and submit written reports on treatment and progress to Unit Charge.
• Protect all confidential information concerning patients obtained in the course of professional practice and make disclosures only with the patient's consent or when disclosure can be appropriately justified.
• Carry out other official duties assigned by the Unit In-Charge