Job Description

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. 

Experiences and Qualifications

Essential

• 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
• 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         

Child Safeguarding Policy:

SOS Children’s Villages Somalia holds strict child safeguarding principles and a zero-tolerance policy for conducts of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse in the workplace and other places where the organization’s activities are rendered. Parallel to technical competence, recruitment, selection and hiring decisions will give due emphasis to assessing candidates’ value congruence and thorough background checks, police clearance reference check processes. SOS Children’s Villages organization is committed to safeguarding the rights of the children and therefore, is expected that every individual who joins with SOS Children’s Villages Somalia understands his/her responsibility in protecting and keeping children always safe

Skills Required

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