Midwife

Job Description

Title: Midwife

Company Name: Friendship

Vacancy: 4

Age: Na

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 2 years

• Diploma in Midwifery

• At least 2 years

• Skill and Competencies:
• Educational Qualification:
• 2 years’ experience in relevant field. 
• Understanding and caring attitude.
• Ability to get on well with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
• Emotional and mental strength.
• Good observation ability.
• Ability to act on own initiative.
• Patience.
• Maturity.
• Willingness to take responsibility.
• Willingness to work in hard-to-reach area. 
• Ability to cope with distressing situations and to stay calm in stressful situations.

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 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 .

Activities:  

• Axamining 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 rota and be on call to provide care on a 24-hour basis. 
• 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.
• Duty on roster basis.