Midwife Supervisor
Job Description
Title: Midwife Supervisor
Company Name: Friendship
Vacancy: 01
Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh
Salary: Negotiable
Published: 12 May 2024
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Supervision and Training: Provide guidance, support, and on-the-job training to a team of midwives to enhance their knowledge and skills in maternal and newborn care.
∎ Quality of Care: Ensure that midwives adhere to best practices and international standards in maternal and newborn healthcare to provide safe and quality care.
∎ Antenatal Care: Oversee the provision of comprehensive antenatal care services, including health assessments, prenatal education, and monitoring the health of pregnant women
∎ Safe Delivery: Ensure the availability of skilled birth attendance during childbirth and promote the implementation of essential childbirth practices to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality
∎ Postnatal Care: Coordinate postnatal care services, including check-ups for newborns and mothers, and support for breastfeeding and postpartum family planning
∎ Emergency Obstetric Care: Collaborate with relevant organizations to ensure timely access to emergency obstetric care services for pregnant women with complications
∎ Data Collection and Reporting: Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of maternal and newborn health indicators.
∎ Community Engagement: Engage with the refugee community to raise awareness about maternal and newborn health, encourage antenatal care attendance, and promote positive health-seeking behaviors.
∎ Collaboration: Work closely with other healthcare providers, including doctors, nurses, and community health workers, to integrate midwifery services into the overall healthcare system.
∎ Capacity Building: Organize and facilitate training sessions for healthcare workers and community members to enhance their knowledge of maternal and newborn health
∎ 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 labourmonitoring 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
∎ Responsible for:
∎ Supervision and Training: Provide guidance, support, and on-the-job training to a team of midwives to enhance their knowledge and skills in maternal and newborn care.
∎ Quality of Care: Ensure that midwives adhere to best practices and international standards in maternal and newborn healthcare to provide safe and quality care.
∎ Antenatal Care: Oversee the provision of comprehensive antenatal care services, including health assessments, prenatal education, and monitoring the health of pregnant women
∎ Safe Delivery: Ensure the availability of skilled birth attendance during childbirth and promote the implementation of essential childbirth practices to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality
∎ Postnatal Care: Coordinate postnatal care services, including check-ups for newborns and mothers, and support for breastfeeding and postpartum family planning
∎ Emergency Obstetric Care: Collaborate with relevant organizations to ensure timely access to emergency obstetric care services for pregnant women with complications
∎ Data Collection and Reporting: Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of maternal and newborn health indicators.
∎ Community Engagement: Engage with the refugee community to raise awareness about maternal and newborn health, encourage antenatal care attendance, and promote positive health-seeking behaviors.
∎ Collaboration: Work closely with other healthcare providers, including doctors, nurses, and community health workers, to integrate midwifery services into the overall healthcare system.
∎ Capacity Building: Organize and facilitate training sessions for healthcare workers and community members to enhance their knowledge of maternal and newborn health
∎ Activities:
∎ 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 labourmonitoring 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
∎ Skill and Competencies
∎ Qualification: Possession of a recognized midwifery qualification and relevant licensure or certification.
∎ Experience: Previous 2 years experience in midwifery and supervisory roles, preferably in humanitarian settings or with vulnerable populations.
∎ Knowledge: Familiarity with evidence-based practices in maternal and newborn healthcare, emergency obstetric care, and family planning
∎ Communication Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively lead a team and engage with the community.
∎ Read Before Apply
∎ “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.
Employment Status: Contractual
Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh
Company Information:
∎ Friendship
∎ K-14/2A, Baridhara North Road (Kalachadpur), Dhaka - 1212, Bangladesh
∎ https://friendship.ngo/
Address::
∎ K-14/2A, Baridhara North Road (Kalachadpur), Dhaka - 1212, Bangladesh
∎ https://friendship.ngo/
Read Before Apply: Please apply only who are fulfilling all the requirements of this job
Application Deadline: 18 May 2024
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 18th May 2024
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