Midwife (Maternity Cover) at Medecins Du Monde

Location: Maiduguri, Borno

Main Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Sexual Reproductive Health Supervisor, 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 counselling 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 in 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 organized by MDM.

Others:

• Give suggestions to improve the functioning of MDM mobile clinics
• Participate in the loading and unloading of the vehicles and to the setting up of the mobile clinics
• Participate in 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

• Candidates should possess a B.Sc Degree with a minimum of 2 years work experience.