Midwife
Job Description
Title: Midwife
Company Name: Relief International
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Diploma in Midwifery
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ The Midwife is responsible for providing care to women and baby during the antenatal, intranatal and postnatal periods. She will provide high quality, culturally sensitive care during labor. She will conduct a clean, safe delivery; give care to the new-born, and manage / refers emergencies effectively to prevent maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity.
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∎ Department: Health
∎ Expected Start Date: April 1, 2020.
∎ Contract length: Up to December 31, 2020.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Give the necessary supervision, care and advice to women during pregnancy, labor and the postpartum period.
∎ Provide full antenatal care, including screening test in the hospital, community and the home.
∎ Provide counselling and advice before and after screening and tests.
∎ Conduct deliveries on her own and care for the newborn infant.
∎ Identify high risk pregnancies and making referrals to doctors and other medical specialists.
∎ Provide support and advice following events such as miscarriage, termination, stillbirth, neonatal abnormality and neonatal death.
∎ Provide primary care to women of reproductive age, in accordance with the Basic Package of health Services.
∎ Supervise the provision of primary health care within the community by female health workers.
∎ Counsel and educate women, the family and the community, in relevant areas of health and provide a program of parenthood preparation and a complete preparation for childbirth including advice on hygiene and nutrition.
∎ Give support and advice on the daily care of the baby, including breastfeeding, bathing and making up feeds.
∎ Provide all non-surgical methods of family planning, and counselling for surgical methods.
∎ Follow established health center policies, procedures and objectives; continuous quality improvement initiatives; safety, environmental, and infection prevention standards.
∎ Decreased risk of needing a cesarean and reduced rates of labor induction and augmentation.
∎ Help to decrease infant mortality rates and preterm birth and take all initiatives which are necessary in case of need and carry out where necessary immediate resuscitation.
∎ Help to decrease maternal mortality rate and pregnancy related sufferings.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Only females are allowed to apply
∎ 1-2 years of experience in midwifery and Registered by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Bangladesh.
∎ Experience with other NGOs-INGOs desirable.
Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh.
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
∎ Salary Review: Yearly
∎ Two festival bonuses in a year equivalent to one basic salary.
∎ Severance (8.33% of the monthly basic salary) goes with the monthly release of the salary.
Application Deadline: February 10, 2020
Company Information:
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: House: 451 , Road: 8 West, DOHS Baridhara, Dhaka-1206; Head Quarter: 5455 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1280 Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
∎ Web : www.ri.org
∎ Business : Relief International, hedquatered in USA, is a leading international non government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact.
Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International has been working in Bangladesh since 2004. The Bangladesh portfolio of Relief International has strong focus on emergency response, economic opportunity and livelihoods rebuilding, traficking in persons, sustainable tourism, human rights and protection, refugee crisis response and public health. RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar. RI currently employs over 1000 local and international staffs in Bangladesh.
Relief International is currently implementing large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID/OFDA, EU ECHO.
For more information on Relief International: www.ri.org
Category: NGO/Development
