Volunteers for Relief and Development (VRD)
Auxiliary Midwife (1 position) – Baidoa, Somalia
Date: 19-11-2024
Closing Date: 28-11-2024
Position – Auxiliary Midwife
Number of position: 1
Section: Health
Locality: Baidoa
Reports to: Health Project Management
Job summary:
Auxiliary Midwives are expected to provide advice, care and support for women and their partners and families before, during and after childbirth. They help women make their own decisions about the care and services they access. They care for newborn children, providing health education and parenting support.
Responsibilities:
- Encourage participation of family members in the birth to support the mother and enhance both mother/baby bonding and family relationships.
- Provide counselling and advice before and after screening.
- Offer support and reassurance following events such as miscarriage, termination, stillbirth, neonatal abnormality and neonatal death.
- Assist mothers in labor and delivery; monitor the condition of the foetus.
- Support and give advice on the daily care of the baby, including exclusive and complementary breast feeding, bathing and making up feeds.
- Provide advice and guidance on a safe and timely transfer home; liaising with agencies and other health and social care professionals to ensure continuity of care.
- Register/document mothers delivered at MCH.
- Help to decrease infant mortality rates and preterm birth and take all initiatives which are necessary in case of need and carry out where necessary immediate resuscitation.
- Undertake any other related duties assigned by the supervisor.
Essential competencies and requirement:
- Diploma in Midwifery
- degree in midwifery is preferred
- Two years’ experience in busy maternity Hospital or MCH.
- Good counselling and communication skills
- Observing client confidentiality and privacy
- Good experience in BEMONC & Familiarity with CEMONC services
- Able to provide Basic Life Support to women and newborns
- Excellent command in Somali/English languages
- Computer skills (MS Word, excel, internet, computer based lab results ordering and reporting) Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills
- Critical thinking.
How to apply
Interested applicants should applications letters, updated CVs, and should send scanned copies of their academic document with three three contactable references to this email: procurment.vrd@gmail.com
Only short listed candidates will contacted.
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