Nurse / Midwife at Life at Best Development Initiative

Description

• Nurse/Midwives will be responsible for the delivery of quality, timely, and integrated sexual and reproductive health (SRH), maternal and newborn care, and nutrition services at PHCC Ngala.
• Focus on safe motherhood, essential newborn care, outpatient nutrition services, community engagement, and facility-based quality improvement.
• Ensure that lifesaving services are delivered according to national guidelines and humanitarian standards.

Key Responsibilities
Clinical Maternal & Reproductive Health Services:

• Provide antenatal, intrapartum, post-partum, and post-natal care according to national and WHO/MISP standards.
• Manage normal deliveries and assist in complicated births.
• Ensure appropriate referral of obstetric and neonatal emergencies.
• Provide family planning counselling and services, including postpartum FP.
• Ensure early newborn care, vaccination referrals (EPI), and follow-up.

Integrated Nutrition Services:

• Support outpatient nutrition programs (MUAC screening, IYCF counselling, referral of severe cases).
• Conduct routine nutritional assessment for pregnant and lactating women (PLW) and newborns.
• Provide IYCF-E counselling to caregivers.
• Work closely with the nutrition team to detect and refer malnutrition among children under 5 and PLW.

Infection Prevention & Control (IPC) and Hygiene:

• Ensure strict adherence to IPC protocols, hygiene standards, waste disposal, and environmental cleaning.
• Supervise cleaners, sterilization staff, and support staff to maintain a safe clinical environment.
• Monitor sterilization of equipment and availability of essential IPC supplies.

Health & Nutrition Coordination at PHCC:

• Participate in joint planning, coordination, and daily implementation of integrated health and nutrition services.
• Support health promotion activities, including maternal nutrition, breastfeeding, ANC attendance, and facility delivery awareness.
• Work with community volunteers and mobilizers to improve service uptake.

Data Management & Reporting:

• Maintain accurate and complete health and nutrition records, registers, and patient files.
• Ensure timely submission of daily, weekly, and monthly reporting tools.
• Contribute to data quality checks and support monitoring and evaluation activities.

Staff Supervision & Capacity Strengthening:

• Supervise clinic support staff, cleaners, maternity assistants, and birth attendants.
• Provide on-the-job coaching on maternal health, newborn care, IPC, and nutrition practices.
• Support staff performance evaluation and participate in trainings, drills, and clinical updates.

Logistics & Supply Chain Support:

• Monitor stock levels of maternity, RH, and nutrition supplies.
• Report stockouts, submit requisitions, and ensure proper usage of commodities (drugs, supplements, delivery kits).
• Collaborate with pharmacy and logistics teams to maintain proper inventory and storage.

Humanitarian Principles & Community Accountability:

• Uphold humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence in daily work.
• Ensure confidentiality, dignity, and respectful maternity care at all times.
• Support complaint and feedback mechanisms as part of accountability to affected populations (AAP).

Qualifications & Experience

• Registered Nurse–Midwife (RNM) qualification or equivalent accredited qualification.
• Minimum 2 years clinical experience, preferably in humanitarian or low-resource settings.
• Experience in maternal and newborn care, nutrition programming, and emergency health services.
• Strong knowledge of IPC, obstetric emergencies, referral pathways, and nutrition screening.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, high-pressure humanitarian environment.