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Job Responsibilities of Health Educator

The health educator will work under the supervision of the block extension educator and administrative control of the PHC medical officer. Their responsibilities include developing work plans in consultation with medical officers, collecting and analyzing data on extension education work, assisting medical officers in training health workers, organizing health days and publicity programs, supplying education materials to health workers, checking records and stock during village tours, helping with resistant cases and drop-outs, and preparing monthly reports.

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Job Responsibilities of Health Educator

The health educator will work under the supervision of the block extension educator and administrative control of the PHC medical officer. Their responsibilities include developing work plans in consultation with medical officers, collecting and analyzing data on extension education work, assisting medical officers in training health workers, organizing health days and publicity programs, supplying education materials to health workers, checking records and stock during village tours, helping with resistant cases and drop-outs, and preparing monthly reports.

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JOB RESPONSIBILITIES OF HEALTH EDUCATOR

Working Relationship:
The Health Educator will function under the technical supervision and guidance of the
Block Extension Educator. However, he/she will be under the immediate administrative control
of the PHC Medical Officer. He/she will be responsible for providing support to all health and
family welfare programmes in the block.

Duties and Functions:

1. He/she will have with him/her all information relevant to development activities in the
block, particularly concerning health and family welfare, and will utilize the same for
programme planning.
2. He/she will develop his/her work plan in consultation with the medical officer of his/her
PHC and the concerned Block Extension Educator.
3. He/she will collect analyses and interpret the data in respect of extension education work
in his/her PHC area.
4. He/she will be responsible or regular maintenance of records of educational activities, tour
programmes, daily dairies and other registers, and will ensure preparation and display of
relevant maps and charts in the PHC.
5. He/she will assist the Medical Officer, PHC in conducting training of health workers under
the MPW and VHN/ASHA and other schemes under NRHM.
6. He/she will organize the celebration of health days and weeks and publicity programmes at
local fairs, on market days, etc.
7. He/she will organize orientation training for health and family welfare workers, opinion
leaders, local medical practitioners, school teachers, dais and other involved in health and
family welfare work.
8. He/she will assist the organizing mass communication programmes like film shows,
exhibition, lecturers and dramas,
9. He/she will supervise the work of field workers in the area of education and motivation.
10. He/she will supply education material on health and family welfare to health workers in
the block.
11. While on tour he /she will verify entries in the eligible couple register for every village and
do random checking of family welfare acceptors.
12. While on tour he/she will check the available stock of conventional contraceptive with the
depot holders and the kits with VHN/ MPHWs and ASHAs.
13. He/she will help field workers in winning over resistant cases and drop-outs in the health
and family welfare programmes.
14. He/she will maintain a complete set of educational aids on health and family welfare for
his/her own use and for training purpose.
15. He/she will organize population education and health education sessions in schools and for
out-of school youth.
16. He/she will maintain a list of prominent acceptors of family planning methods and opinion
leader’s village wise and will try to involve them in the promotion of health and family
welfare programmes.
17. He/she will prepare a monthly report on the progress of educational activities in the block
and send it to the higher authority.

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