Midwife

Job Description

Title: Midwife

Company Name: Friendship

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ 3 years of diploma in midwifery course from government approved institution

Experience Requirements:
∎ 1 to 2 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Ability of systematic follow-up
∎ Problem solving and identifying problems-before they become major issues
∎ Communicate effectively and precisely to ensure quality outputs
∎ Ensure that team members feel respected
∎ Create and cultivate a working condition of cooperation
∎ Develop and design simple and attainable work process
∎ Offer innovative ideas and take calculated risk to ensure proper implementation

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Responsible and accountable to clinic / camp Health coordinator for the duties and performance.
∎ Responsible to assist the Emergency management during normal vaginal delivery, caesarean section, ANC and PNC cases, Delivery and delivery related patient.
∎ Responsible for patients counseling specially in gynaecological cases.
∎ Responsible for ward duty schedule during various gynaecological camps.
∎ Ensure use of sterile linen, gauze, cotton, and instruments during delivery.
∎ Ensure proper infection prevention practices including house keeping
∎ Prepare monthly report
∎ Any work assigned as per advice by 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
∎ Seek opportunities to be exposed to research activities of the unit in order to continually develop clinically and acquire new skills.
∎ Duty on roster basis
∎ Examining and monitoring pregnant women
∎ Assessing care requirements and writing care plans
∎ Undertaking antenatal care in hospitals, homes and GP practices
∎ 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.•

Additional Requirements:
∎ An understanding and caring attitude
∎ An ability to get on well with people from a wide range of backgrounds
∎ Emotional and mental strength
∎ Good observation
∎ An ability to act on own initiative
∎ Patience
∎ Maturity
∎ Willingness to take responsibility
∎ An ability to cope with distressing situations and to stay calm in stressful situations

Salary: Negotiable

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 5 Jun 2022

Company Information:
∎ 30 May 2022
∎ Friendship
∎ Address : K-14/2A, Baridhara North Road (Kalachadpur), Dhaka - 1212, Bangladesh
∎ Web : www.friendship.ngo

Category: NGO/Development

: “FRIENDSHIP is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults, and employees, Donors, visiting Doctors, visiting Journalists, visitors, beneficiaries including communities where we work and volunteers/interns. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with, has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation - regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure fully include background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding. FRIENDSHIP is an equal opportunity employer and will do everything possible to ensure that those who are suitable to work within our values and beliefs are recruited to work for us. Any personal persuasion will result in a disqualification of candidature”.Photograph must be enclosed with the resume.