Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, November 23, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Our midwives often have a dual responsibility; working in health centres and conducting outreach work in the community. No matter what the context - whether working in natural disasters, conflicts or poverty-affected communities - babies will continue to be born and midwives will always be needed.

It's a challenging and rewarding role and you will be responsible for some or all of the following:
• Pre and post-delivery care
• Deliveries, often complicated
• Care of survivors of sexual violence
• Setting up maternity departments in new health centres or hospitals
• Working with community birth attendants to ensure safe community birthing practices
• Running awareness programs in the community
• Training local midwives
• On-call care, often 24 hours

Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in midwifery or a Degree in nursing with the exception of Community Health Nursing.
• All nurses applying to the midwifery position must have over 2 years’ experience working in a busy labor ward.
• Valid registration
• Experience in supervising, managing and training others
• Experience of obstetric emergencies/complicated deliveries, termination of pregnancy, sexual violence
• Willingness to be regularly on call for difficult and complicated deliveries
• Over three months experience of working in a low resource settings
• Willingness to work in unstable areas
• Available for six to nine months
• Adaptable and able to work in a multi-cultural team
• Flexible and able to manage stress
• Fluency in English

Desirable
• Tropical nursing diploma
• Knowledge of STDs/HIV/AIDS
• Family planning experience
• Community midwifery experience
• Experience working in a similar organisation
• Knowledge of other working languages e.g French and or Arabic

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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