Qualified midwife (3 positions) – Baidoa, Somalia

Date: 20/07/2024

Title: Midwife

Position – Qualified midwife   

Number of position: 3     

Section: Health

Locality: Baidoa  

Reports to:  Health Project Management 

Job Summary:

Midwife is 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.

The position holder is expected to work in busy maternity unit providing 24-

Key Area of responsibility:

• 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.
• Identify high-risk pregnancies and making referrals to doctors and other medical specialists.
• 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.
• Conduct health education awareness to the pregnant and lactating mothers visiting the Medical Centre.
• Offer support and reassurance following events such as miscarriage, termination, stillbirth, neonatal abnormality and neonatal death.
• Provide full antenatal and postnatal care consultation, including screening tests and TT vaccine in the clinic, community and at home.
• Provide counselling and advice before and after screening.
• Register/document mothers delivered at MCH.
• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly report.
• Maintain overall professionalism, visibility, and confidentiality of patients and organization.
• Keeps confidentiality and maintains professionalism, visibility, and integrity.
• Undertake any other related duties assigned by the supervisor

Required Qualifications and Competence 

• Bachelor degree in Midwifery
• 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
• A mature person of high professional discipline and moral integrity.
• Ability to English proficiency.
• Strong counselling skills.
• Good organizational skills.
• Competent to work under stress as the situation may dictate. 
• Ability to work with displaced communities with diverse cultural and ethnic background.
• Computer skills (MS Word, excel, internet, computer based lab results ordering and reporting) Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills

Practical Skills:

• TRIAGING of women in labour
• Active management of third stage of labour
• Using partograph to manage labour
• Able to manage and organize services in labour room.
• Resuscitate mothers and newborns.
• Organize CEMONC services for women in need
• Link postpartum women and children to immunization services

Required competence 

• A mature person of high professional discipline and moral integrity.
• Ability to English proficiency.
• Previous experience within a humanitarian aid organization, in particular working in primary health care programs and conducting nursing.
• Strong counselling skills.
• Good organizational skills.
• Competent to work under stress as the situation may dictate. Ability to work with displaced communities with diverse cultural and ethnic background.

Child Protection and safeguarding

The responsibilities of this position include regular contact with children, and young people. Volunteers for Relief and Development organization is responsible for protecting and safeguarding the dignity of children, women, and all vulnerable individuals, as well as raising awareness.

How to apply

Interested applicants should applications letters and updated CVs and should send scanned copies of their academic document with 3 three contactable references to this email: procurement.vrd@gmail.com 

 

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