Midwife Job opening at Medecins du Monde (MdM)

 

 

Medecins du Monde (MdM) is a leading international non-governmental organization, with the mission to treat the most vulnerable populations in crisis and exclusion situations around the world. Medecins du Monde (MdM) has been active in Nigeria since August 2016 in the fields of primary healthcare (PHC), nutrition, gender-based violence (GBV) and mental health and psychosocial services (MHPSS). MdM objectives is to respond to the emergency caused by the violent armed conflict in the North-eastern region of Nigeria.

Medecins du Monde (MdM) is actively recruiting for the position below.

 

Role Title: Midwife in Damboa

Location: Damboa, Borno State.

Role Responsibilities:

 

• Filling in the reproductive health form for each patient
• Responsible for ensuring patient confidentiality is respected and treat all the patients with respect and dignity
• Giving suggestions that will improve the functioning of MDM mobile clinics
• Preparation of all the material and equipment and ensure that everything is ready before starting the activities
• Following the basic medical rules of hygiene when performing reproductive health consultations
• Performing postnatal consultations during the six weeks following the delivery, give appropriate treatment and refers to female medical doctor when needed.
• You will be required to participate in the loading and unloading of the vehicles and to the setting up of the mobile clinics
• Performing family planning consultations and counseling according to protocol
• Responsible for giving systematic prophylactic treatments to pregnant women
• Referring to the female medical doctor all pregnant women with a pathology associated to the pregnancy
• Be flexible in performing your duties to ensure that beneficiaries are getting good quality services
• Management of RH emergency cases with the assistance of the medical doctor according to MdM protocols and regulation
• You would be required to participate actively in triage activities before to start reproductive health consultations
• Performing antenatal consultations according to the protocols, detect and mention all the risk factors
• You are to inform the security focal point immediately in case of any security problem in the field
• Verifying the tetanus vaccination of each pregnant woman
• Explaining in details the treatment to the patient 

 

Required Qualifications:

 

• Possess a diploma in Midwifery with a valid license from the Nursing or Midwifery board.
• Two years post qualifying experience in a related context
• Competence in the use of Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Power Point Presentation etc
• Managing effectively your own time and be flexible and available to work overtime when needed
• Must possess a valid practicing certificate.
• Excellent interpersonal and team-building skills and excellence as a team player.
• Ability to learn with speed and ease.
• Willingness to be deployed to the newly liberated local government areas.
• Candidate with a background in Emergency handling will have an advantage.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English, Kanuri and Hausa Languages will give you an edge.

 

Application Deadline:

September 30^th, 2020.

 

Application Guidelines:

To apply, send your CV and cover letter as a single document to recruitment.nigeria@medecinsdumonde.net using Midwife Damboa as email subject.