icddr, b is a Bangladesh-based international health research institute that strives to solve key public health problems through high-quality scientific research and innovation. As a values-based organization, icddrb encourages women and people with disabilities.
Dhaka Hospital was established by icddr, b in 1962 primarily to meet the urgent need to treat patients, particularly children, with severe diarrhoeal disease. It has since grown into a nationally important centre treating more than 140,000 patients a year. It acts as a beacon illustrating what can be achieved by a hospital facility even within a developing world setting. Dhaka Hospital provides an infrastructure for a wide range of clinical research projects. It also plays a critical role in areas such as disease surveillance, monitoring for antimicrobial resistance and clinical training. Dhaka Hospital offers a full range of services, particularly for diarrhoeal and respiratory disease, with infants and children representing a high proportion of patients. It delivers outstanding care, saving an estimated 40,000 lives that might otherwise be lost every year.
Key Responsibilities:
The position holder will report to Senior Dietician and will be responsible to visit patients in the wards and oversee the distribution of diet . He/she will be supervising preparation of food in the hospital kitchen. He/she will take directives from the dietician on dietary guideline implementation.
He/ She will be responsible for:
- Raise diet requisition and share the hard copies to kitchen and ward attendant;
- Measure liquid diets, such as milk suji, rice suji, infant formula usually every 2-3 hours; check and confirm freshness, quality and measurement of ingredients;
- Take guidelines from dietician for different study diet;
- Keep vigilance of ORS supply, preparation and distribution by health workers;
- Attend ward round with physicians and execute the dietary orders according to protocol;
- Give short round in different wards and gather feedback from patients;
- Motivate mothers of sick babies on correct feeding practices;
- Allocate diet to new patients;
- Assist discharged patients to receive dietary advice in PD and PEM cases and referred cases from study ward;
- Receive raw food items such as rice, rice powder, egg, chicken, lentil everyday as per requirement and preserve properly to maintain quality;
- Measure and keep the records of received items in register;
- Supervise weekly cleaning of all kitchen utensils;
- Maintain good interpersonal relationship with team members and in the organization;
- Assist in training of feeding team health workers;
- Demonstrate motivational capabilities for managing health workers, cook and attendants; participate in monthly review meetings.
Required qualification and experience:
- Bachelor degree in Food Technology and Nutrition Science/ Nutrition and Food Science.
- 2 years relevant experience is required. Candidates having experience in dietary management of a hospital/health center will get preference.
Location: Dhaka Hospital, Mohakhali
Contract Type and duration:
- Fixed term basis for 2 years with a possibility of extension subject to availability of fund and performance.
Salary & benefits:
- Annual Tk. Annual Tk.5,21,070/- inclusive of house rent and conveyance allowances and other admissible benefits.
- 14.8% provident fund contribution, income tax paid by icddr,b, children allowance @Tk.1,917/- per child per month, festival bonus, contributory healthcare support including dependent spouse and children, group life insurance, and subsidized canteen. Transport and daycare facilities are subject to space availability.
Notes of attention:
- Only short-listed candidates shall be invited for written test/interview;
- The Organization reserves the right to make an appointment at a grade lower than that advertised;
- icddr,b does not charge any fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
Interested candidates who fulfill the requirements should submit online applications using icddr,b website: career.icddrb.org by September 28, 2023.