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Midwife

Number of Positions: 2

Position Title: Midwife.

Position Reports to: Medical Doctor (within the same team).

Field Site: Tripoli.

Date Needed: 1st, March 2020.

Essential Responsibilities:

 Tasks include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Examining and monitoring pregnant women 5 days /week from 9:00 to 17:00.
• Assessing care requirements and writing care plans.
• Undertaking antenatal care.
• Carrying out screening tests. Ensure counselling for HIV testing.
• Conduct triage and initial patient assessment prior to referral to the medical doctor.
• Ensures patient confidentiality.
• Fistula Prevention and Management: Implement early prevention of fistula occurrence in prolonged obstructed labour, identify women with fistula problems in the community and organise for refer.
• Taking patient samples, vital signs (pulses, temperatures, weight and blood pressures).
• Caring for and assisting women in labor.
• Monitoring and administering medication, injections and intravenous infusions during labor.
• Monitoring the fetus during labor.
• Advising about and supporting parents in the daily care of their newborn babies and providing information, emotional support and reassurance to women and their partners.
• Helping parents to cope with miscarriage, termination, stillbirth and neonatal death.
• Writing records.
• Provide technical support and oversight to the mobile health team in regards to referrals to patient care and place of delivery.
• Follow up referred patients to and between hospitals/healthcare facilities.
• Collaborate with the doctor team leader and medical coordinator in sending orders for periodic re-stocking.
• Work with M&E team to ensure accuracy and quality of data collected from all hospital/healthcare facilities on a monthly basis.
• Conduct monthly data analysis and take action as appropriate in cooperation with supervisor.
• Works as a member of the team, taking in consideration the non-medical problems encountered by the patients (i.e. feeding and psychosocial).
• Conduct PNC home visits according to plans prepared and ensure referrals of mothers and Neonates if needed to health facilities (danger signs).
• Properly follow up all new-born babies from delivery until discharge, informing mothers and relatives about importance of breast feeding, vaccination and possible complications resulting from harmful traditional practices.
• Ensures that all pregnant women and new born children are referred to the Extended Program on Immunization (EPI). Consider making this post primary responsible for all EPI.
• Follow up with target groups such as pregnant/lactating women, children less than 5 years old especially with regard to utilization and access to antenatal services and vaccination services and TBC patients.
• Provide weekly reports regarding PNC visit.
• Submit daily and weekly drug consumption report including: notify medical doctor of drug stock and expiry dates of drugs.
• Assist other program staff whenever needed.
• Is responsible for hygiene and universal precautions in health facilities according to protocols and in cooperation with Team leader. Knows and implements accidental exposure policy.
• Any other responsibility assigned by his/her supervisor.

Qualifications:

• Registered Midwife/nurse, with experience on the following departments:
• At least 3 years’ clinical experience.
• Able to provide treatment and assistance to all individuals needing his/her care.
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Willing to work in resource limited settings, especially peripheral areas in Libya.
• Able to provide feedback/reports regarding work -related activities.
• Willing to do manual work when necessary.

Language Skills: 

• Able to speak in Arabic, English

Email your CV and Cover letter to libya-recruitment@internationalmedicalcorps.org indicating in the subject the position. Very Important, write the position title in the email subject before submitting.