Technical Assistant

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Description

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Background

Maternal, Neonatal, and Infant morbidity and mortality remain a Public Health problem in Mozambique.

The main health provider for women and newborns are the maternal and child health nurses (midwives). With the increasing number of interventions targeting women’s and children’s health, these maternal and child health nurses are overloaded, and there is a need to have a specific health provider with newborn care skills.

The first hours, days, and weeks after birth are a precious period for the survival, and development of a newborn, and not having the needed and right care in the right moment.  In this circumstances baby can die and contribute to the increased number of newborns mortality and  the infant and child mortality .To respond to the priority health needs of the newborn by providing holistic nursing care that is ethical, safe, and evidence-informed to positively impact the health and quality of life of individuals, families, communities and to ensure the quality of neonatal care, the National Directorate for Training of Health Professionals (DNFPS), with WHO support, has developed the professional qualification of Nurse Specialist in Neonatology.

There is a need to develop the internship guide and the teaching manuals of the vocational modules of the qualification to ensure the proper implementation of the new qualification, so, the DNFPS intends, to hire an expert to carry out this activity.

Deliverables

• Teaching manuals of the vocational modules of the qualification according to the pre-defined competences in the professional qualification developed.
• Professional qualification internship guide developed

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages

Educational Qualifications

• University degree in medicine, specializing in neonatology or degree in nursing specialist in neonatology

Experience

• Proven experience in the development guidelines, training materials for health or other cadres;
• Experience of at least 2 years of field is an advantage.

Skills/Knowledge

• Leadership, teamwork
• communication skills with different partners
• Aptitude to produce documents

Languages and level required

• Fluency in reading, writing and communication in Portuguese

Source: https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=2304370&tz=GMT%2B05%3A30&tzname=Asia%2FCalcutta

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