Friendship is looking for Midwife Supervisor
Job Description / Responsibility
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 labour
- monitoring 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
Employment Status
Contract
Educational Requirements
Experience Requirements
- 2 to 3 year(s)
- The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):
- NGO,Hospital
Skill and Competencies:
- Experience: 2 to 3 years of experience in midwifery and supervisory roles, preferably in humanitarian settings or with vulnerable populations. Experience of midwife mentoring and supervision.
- 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.
Job Location
Anywhere in Bangladesh
