Midwife

Job Description

Title: Midwife

Company Name: Friendship

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 2 years

• Diploma in Nursing
• Diploma in Midwifery

• At least 2 years

• At least 2 years of experience working in an NGO/Hospital is preferable.
• Willingness to work in a hard-to-reach area.
• Ability to work under pressure.

Responsible for:

• Responsible and accountable to facility in charge for the duties and performance.
• Assist the Emergency management during normal vaginal delivery, caesarean section, ANC and PNC cases, Delivery and delivery related patient.
• Patients counseling specially in gynecological cases.
• Responsible for ward duty schedule during various gynecological camps.
• Ensure use of sterile linen, gauze, cotton, and instruments during delivery.
• Ensure proper infection prevention practices including house keeping.

Activities:

• Examining and monitoring pregnant women.
• Assessing care requirements and writing care plans.
• Undertaking antenatal care.
• Carrying out screening tests.
• Providing information, emotional support and reassurance to women and their partners.
• Taking patient samples, pulses, temperatures and blood pressures.
• Caring for and assisting women in labour.
• Monitoring and administering medication, injections and intravenous infusions during labour.
• Monitoring the foetus during labour.
• Advising about and supporting parents in the daily care of their newborn babies.
• Helping parents to cope with miscarriage, termination, stillbirth and neonatal death.
• Writing records.
• Tutoring student midwives.
• Identifying high-risk pregnancies.
• Midwives may work on a rotation and be on call to provide care on a 24-hour basis.
• Prepare a monthly report.
• Any work assigned as per advice by the concerned authority.
• Prepare and present reports on cases, incidents, initiatives etc. During team meetings and department meetings in order to share experience(s) and learning with team members.
• Attend all training/clinical sessions.
• Actively take part in mentoring activities organized by friendship.
• Develop and demonstrate interest in a particular specialty.
• Duty on roster basis.