Technical Specialist - Health and Education

LAMB is a well-run major mission Hospital, Community Health Development, Training and Research organization. Services cover more than 6.3 million people in North West Bangladesh.

There is a vacancy for the following contractual position under the Community Health and Development Program (CHDP).

Job Summary: The Technical Specialist – Health and Education will communicate and coordinate closely with Government Health Officials and CHDP/Hospital teams. She will lead and support fistula-related seminars, workshops, and diagnostic camps, and work in close collaboration with the hospital fistula team.

The role involves participation in clinical fistula diagnosis, fistula camps, and the delivery of patient care in both OPD and IPD settings. She will also serve as a member of the Nursing and Midwifery faculty team.

1. Planning, implementation and Academic Instruction:

• To lead team with professional behaviour and integrity, and to promote unity and peace among all team members under the project

• Deliver theoretical lectures and practical demonstrations in accordance with the approved BNMC midwifery curriculum.

• Prepare lesson plans, teaching materials, and training aids.v

• Facilitate interactive learning sessions using modern teaching methodologies.

• Conduct student assessments, examinations, and evaluations.

• Maintain academic records and student performance documentation.

• Ensure good knowledge on fistula among the field level staff of government health and family planning department

• Provide supportive supervision for outreach/peripheral others project’s activities as per need.

• To facilitate the fistula surgery workshop for doctors/ surgeons at upazila /district and division level.

• To assist the LAMB medical team to conduct fistula diagnosis camp at Upazila level.

• Giving technical input to fistula program PM and community teams

• Writing periodic project report to LAMB management and donor

 2. Clinical Supervision and Program Monitoring:

• Supervise students during clinical placements in affiliated hospitals and health facilities.

• Provide bedside teaching in antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal, newborn care, and emergency obstetric services.

• Monitor students’ clinical logbooks and competency achievement.

• Ensure adherence to infection prevention and control (IPC) protocols and professional ethics.

• Facilitate reflective practice and clinical case discussions.

• Collate information needed for donor reporting and send reports to concerned management with the consultation of Project manager/CHDP Director

• Lead to develop monitoring tools and schedule, and ensure that program monitoring and evaluation are conducted periodically

• Ensure compliance of organization and donor

• Coordinate with fistula surgeons to ensure ongoing fistula surgeries, inc. control of quality of preoperative and  post-operative care.

• Coordinate with the fistula project consultant to organize fistula camps for visiting surgeons together with the team.

• Ensure that fistula diagnosis camps are organized at the upazila level in consultation with the fistula project consultant.

 3. Quality Assurance & Compliance

•  Ensure compliance with the National Nursing and Midwifery Council standards.

• Maintain proper documentation and reporting related to academic and clinical activities.

• Participate in internal and external monitoring, supervision, and audit processes.

 4. Networking and advocacy:

• Ensure good communication between LAMB and the donor at the central and local levels

• Establish professional relationship with UH&FPO, UFPO, DD-FP, CS, Director-Health, Director-FP on behalf of LAMB

• Establish very good linkage with local administration, district hospitals, Upazila health complex, UH&FWC etc.

• Assist FWC to explore fistula patients

• Ensure in collaboration with all LAMB Project Officers that effective communication occurs between departments and that the components have the necessary resources to fulfil the objectives of the various programs

• Analyse decision-making that is specific to project and community and provide this information for dissemination.

• Participating in advocacy meetings as a speaker or representative at the Upazila, district and divisional level.

 5. Professional Development & Institutional Support

• Engage in continuous professional development (CPD) activities.

• Support capacity-building initiatives for faculty and clinical preceptors.

• Participate in seminars, workshops, and academic events organized by the institution.

• Contribute to research, case studies, and evidence-based practice initiatives when applicable.

7. Integration of spiritual, emotional & social health:

• Ensure prayer at beginning of daily work, before the meeting, workshop, seminar & training

• Ensure availability of religious books and references at all offices, sub-offices/centres

• Ensure spiritual concepts & holistic approach to communication, service delivery, administration and resolution of conflicts

• Ensure religious and organizational values among staffs following organizational policies including safeguarding policy (child protection, adult vulnerable policy)

• Promote LAMB values

• Ensure that all community staff understand LAMB Mission, vision, and values

• Be an example in implementing the project activities to the organizational mission, vision, and values

8. Others:

• Perform any other responsibility when asked for the interest of the Program.

• Any other duty assigned by supervisor.