Mid-Wife (Mobile Clinic) - Katsina (Re-Advertised) at Medecins Du Monde

SUMMARY

Under the supervision of the Medical doctor-team lead mobile clinic, the Midwife will be responsible for the following main activities in order to ensure the quality of care in the mobile clinics:

• 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

TASKS 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 details 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, computerization 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 a weekly activities report to submit to the team leader
• Participate in a pro-active way to MdM internal meetings (medical, security…)
• Participate to all the  trainings organized 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