Roving Midwife at Medecins Du Monde

Médecins du Monde (MdM) is an international humanitarian organization whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations, the world over, including France. It seeks to stimulate voluntary commitment from doctors, other health care providers, and from those whose expertise in other fields is needed for its activities, to enlist all competent support required for the achievement of its projects, and to seek at all times to encourage close working relationships with populations in its care.

We are recruiting to to fill the position below:

Job Title: Roving Midwife

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Line Manager: Health Program Coordinator
Line reports: N/A
Length of contract: 6 months
Possibility for extension: yes
Starting date: ASAP

Job Tasks
Under the supervision of the team leader, the Roving MidWife (within the emergency team) will be responsible for the following main activities in order to ensure the quality of care in the mobile clinics:

• Respond to different crises identified by MdM needs assessment (epidemic and/or sudden mass displacement of population) as part of the emergency team.
• Once an emergency situation has been stabilised, the medical doctor along with the emergency team will be deployed to support the different MdM clinics in Maiduguri, Jere and Damboa LGAs.

Under the direction of the Emergency Team Leader, the roving midwife is expected to:

• Participate in Rapid Needs Assessment.
• Respond to the health needs associated with population influx and communicable disease outbreak(s)
• Provide free of charge healthcare to the affected populations with respect to MdM mandates and principles
• Develop and comply with infection prevention control practices and the isolation needs required
• Follow the relevant MdM healthcare guidelines (PHC, SRH, MHPSS, GBV and Nutrition) and seek support from superiors when needed
• Work closely with existing MdM teams and other partners in the area
• Make appropriate patient referrals to the specified health facilities
• Collect, computerise and analyse weekly epidemiological data
• Ensure the security of MdM properties and to keep his/her supervisor informed about the security situation
• Attend and report the required meetings

Once an emergency has stablised:

• Under the supervision of the Emergency Team Lead or Medical Supervisor of specified camp, the roving midwife will be responsible for the following main activities in order to ensure the quality of care in the mobile clinics such as:
• Provision of free of charge reproductive health consultations
• Implementation of health education sessions
• Collection, computerization and analysis of weekly epidemiological data
• Reporting and attendance to different meetings

Task Description

• Provision of free of charge reproductive health consultations
• Prepare all the material and equipment and ensure that everything is ready before starting the activities
• Follow the basic medical rules of hygiene when performing reproductive health consultations
• Participate actively in triage activities before to start reproductive health consultations
• Perform antenatal consultations according to the protocols, detect and mention all the risk factors
• Perform postnatal consultations during the 6 weeks following the delivery, give appropriate treatment and refers to female medical doctor when needed.
• Perform family planning consultations and counseling according to protocol
• Give systematic prophylactic treatments to pregnant women
• Refer to the female medical doctor all pregnant women with a pathology associated to the pregnancy
• Verify the tetanus vaccination of each pregnant woman
• Explain in detail the treatment to the patient
• Manage RH emergency cases with the assistance of the medical doctor according to MdM protocols and regulation
• Fill in the reproductive health form for each patient
• Ensure patient confidentiality is respected and treat all the patients with respect and dignity
• Implementation of health education sessions
• Give health education sessions to the patients in the different waiting areas
• Spread main messages about health education for the following topics: immunization, antenatal care, post-natal care, assisted delivery, family planning, at-risk pregnancies, breastfeeding and weaning
• Collection, computerisation and analysis of weekly epidemiological data
• Perform the daily data collection regarding reproductive health consultations
• Participate to the weekly computerization and analysis of the reproductive health data
• Reporting and attendance to different meetings
• Prepare weekly activities report to submit to the team leader
• Participate in a pro-active way to MdM internal meetings (medical, security)
• Participate in all the trainings organised by MDM

Others:

• Give suggestions to improve the functioning of MDM mobile clinics
• Participate to the loading and unloading of the vehicles and to the setting up of the mobile clinics
• Participate to weekly physical inventory of mobile clinic pharmacy
• Be flexible in performing his/her duties to ensure that beneficiaries are getting good quality services
• Perform other additional duties on request of the team leader
• Inform immediately the security focal point in case of any security problem in the field

Requirements

• Candidate should be a Certified Midwife
• Experience in similar position for at least 2 years
• Good knowledge in nutrition
• Capacities in team management
• Strong sense of responsibilities and organization skills
• Strong work ethic and rigor
• Languages (spoken and written): English and Hausa
• Flexibility
• Team player

Application Closing Date
27th April, 2018.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit a two page Curriculum Vitae, three work-related references and one page cover letter, in One Document explaining how your skills and experience match the job requirements stated above. If possible, please send all the above in one document - MS Word or PDF. Also, write the job title and your name in the subject line to: [email protected]

Note

• Only applications by email will be considered
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
• We are unable to accept phone calls.
• We’ll pay attention only to the complete files in English.
• Our process of selection include some written tests and oral interviews.
• Please notice that if you have not heard from MdM within 2 weeks, you should presume you were not short listed for this position. However, MdM thanks you for your interest and encourages you to apply for other openings where your skills and experience match.
• MdM stands up for the integration of people living with disabilities and fights against discrimination.