Job Summary
Background: Aga Khan Health Service, Pakistan (AKHS, P) runs one of the largest not-for-profit private healthcare systems in the country, with a focus on the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, and Sindh. Its core focus includes initiatives for hard-to-reach populations through services like outreach clinics, training of community midwives to provide low-cost health services in remote areas, screening for non-communicable diseases, and digital health solutions.
Position Summary: Aga Khan Health Service, Pakistan is looking for a competent Lady Health Visitor (LHV) for the Flood Recovery and Climate Resilience (RENEW) project implement at Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral. The Lady Health Visitor (LHV) will provide essential maternal, newborn, and child health services, including antenatal and postnatal care, conduct deliveries, immunization, and nutrition screening at health facilities and outreach clinics. The role involves delivering health education, counseling, and referrals for high-risk cases while ensuring accurate data reporting and collaboration with the team.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Provide primary healthcare services to flood-affected populations, addressing both different health conditions in recovery-phase clinics or outreach camps.
- Provide high quality essential newborn care at health facility, including vital signs, cord clamping, breathing assessment, skin-to-skin contact, early initiation of breastfeeding, thermal regulation, breastfeeding, infection prevention, recognition of danger signs and timely referral when needed.
- Deliver essential antenatal, delivery and postnatal care and maternal health services to mothers including but not limited to nutritional screening, growth monitoring, counseling on health diet and rest, Tetanus Toxoid (TT) vaccination during pregnancy, family planning, breast feeding and safe delivery practices.
- Conduct nutrition screening of children under 5 and mothers in coordination with outreach team.
- Plan and conduct awareness and counselling sessions on healthy nutrition, IYCF practices, family planning, regular ANC and PNC visits, institutional delivery and routine immunization with a focus on the coverage of zero dose, missed and defaulter children at health facility and in the community during outreach clinics.
- Collect, compile, maintain and report high quality immunization and nutrition data from the facility and field to supervisor and central office as necessary.
- Perform other relevant tasks and responsibilities assigned by the program team
- Supervise and coordinate health activities such as mobile clinics, outreach campaigns, awareness sessions, and referrals.
Required Skills
Qualifications & Experience:
- Diploma in LHV from a recognized nursing institution with valid Pakistan Nursing Council (PNC) license
- Minimum 1-2 -years of experience preferably in maternal and child health especially MNCH, Nutrition and Immunization.
- Should have a strong understanding and knowledge of MNCH
- Ability to work under pressure with pressing deadlines
- Should be polite, respectful and courteous to the patients, community and to those who are in authority.
- Ability to speak and understand local languages
AKHS is committed to reducing our impact on climate and the environment and have set ourselves the goal of striving for net-zero carbon operations by 2030. All staff is expected to take part in making this a reality. The Lady Health Visitor (LHV) accompanied with her Line Manager is expected to identify and understand which aspects of her work have most impact on the environment, and define tasks, work, and personal goals within her work plan to reduce these impacts and bring AKHS closer to net zero.
Interested candidates meeting the criteria can apply latest by October 10, 2025