Overview
Midwife LN Jobs in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria at International Medical Corps
Title: Midwife LN
Company: International Medical Corps
Location: Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
Job Summary
Provide maternal and newborn health services for women of all ages, including obstetric and newborn care to pregnant women and their babies, according to International Medical Corps obstetrical and maternal and newborn health protocols. The midwife should use universal hygienic and newborn caring standards and will work under the supervision of a specialist doctor to ensure their health conditions and avoid complications pre-pregnancy, during pregnancy, delivery, and post-delivery.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function with or without reasonable accommodation.
Main Tasks And Responsibilities
- Ensure the implementation and continuity of antenatal and postnatal care, healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies, safe delivery services, emergency obstetric and newborn care (BEmONC and CEmONC), essential newborn care, STI management,.
- Providing clinical care for for survivors of violence against women and girls.
- Assessing the feasibility of referral of pregnant women from the TBAs to the OPD/MCH.
- Ensuring hygiene and sterilization criteria (including universal precautions) are met.
- Performing cleaning and minor maintenance for biomedical equipment used. Following the user manual and protocols and alert supervisor in case of malfunctioning.
- Guaranteeing a regular and ongoing supply of drugs and equipment required for maternity activities (including monitoring/consumption control/ordering of orders.
- Ensuring protection for patients’ privacy and confidentiality are respected. Supervising administrative procedures of admissions and hospitalizations.
- Conduct skilled deliveries independently and manage obstetric emergencies as per national/international protocols.
- Supervises the use of drugs, facilities and obstetric material for MNH services
- Provide quality of care for OPD and in patient management, proper health education and collaborate with another department.
- Ensure daily data quality on ANC, admission, delivery, PNC, healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies, OPD and discharge registration, proper documentation of referral cases, and strengthen linkages.
- Ensure nutritionally at-risk infants and their mothers also receive mental health and health promotion support (targeted to the infant developmental age) as part of an integrated approach to inpatient nutritional care and treating the infant and mother as one unit.
- Breastfeeding support including counseling on proper positioning, attachments, duration, frequency of feeding, effective suckling and double suckling.
- Provide timely and accurate reports.
Perform other duties as assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed in this document are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and not necessarily comprehensive.
Minimum Qualifications
- Completion of a clinical midwifery education program with a General Nursing and Midwifery Certificate.
- Valid License from Nursing and Midwifery Council or similar accrediting body
- Clinical work experience of at least two (2) years as a professional midwife in low resource settings
- Language: English and local Languages are mandatory
- Essential computer literacy (word, excel, and Internet).
