SOS Children’s Villages invite applications from suitably qualified and interested candidates who fulfill the eligibility criterion for the below position.

Position title       :            Midwife

Reporting to       :            Doctor in Charge

Location               :            Baidoa

Job summary:

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. Midwives are personally responsible for the health of both mother and child and only refer to obstetricians if there are medical complications. They work in multidisciplinary teams in both hospital and, increasingly, community healthcare settings.

Responsibilities:

·         Provide full antenatal and postnatal care consultation, including screening tests and TT vaccine in the clinic, community and at home.

·         Document pregnant and lactating mothers at MCH.

·         Identify high-risk pregnancies and making referrals to doctors and other medical specialists.

·         Conduct health education awareness to the pregnant and lactating mothers visiting the Medical Centre.

·         Arrange and provide parenting and health education such as complete preparation for childbirth and advice on hygiene and nutrition. For the woman, her partner and family members.

·         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.

·         Provides awareness and encourages on birth spacing/family planning services for mothers attending at the MCH and after delivery.

·         Engage in professional development to meet PREP (post-registration education and practice) requirements.

·         Administer medication as ordered by the attending doctor.

·         Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly report.

·         Maintain overall professionalism, visibility, and confidentiality of patients and organization.

·         Keeps confidentiality and maintains professionalism, visibility, and integrity.

·         Follow established health center policies, procedures            and objectives; continuous quality improvement initiatives; safety, environmental, and infection prevention standards.

·         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.

·         Manage complications in pregnancy and childbirth to level of the midwives, In accordance with the principles of basic emergency obstetric care. 

·         Undertake any other related duties assigned by the supervisor.