Job Summary:

Under overall supervision of FHH supervisor, the FHH midwife will be responsible to provide 24/7 RMNCAH services in FHHs. She will be contributing to health services provision in the community-based health facility with more focus on reproductive health. As per project donor (UNFPA) and AFGA strategic plan, the FHH midwife will be contributing to health services access improvement through close engagement with targeted community through health shura members, family health action group (FHAG) and CHWs.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Providing 24/7 health services on community base through FHHs particularly to women during pregnancy, delivery and post-partum phase.

• Contributing to the provision of efficient and respectful health caring to people particularly women at the age of child bearing and girls.

• Practicing evidence-based midwifery care through applying her knowledge and skills to met the needs of women and their families.

• Providing high quality reproductive health, family planning, PSS, breast and cervical cancers counseling to the client during their admission to FHH.

• Maintain, update and improvement of professional and personal knowledge and skill to provide quality, acceptable and accessible services to the clients.

• Providing appropriate supervision and advance care to women during pregnancy, delivery and post-partum phases.

• Conducing regular meetings with women and their family members regarding FHHs activities, providing health promotion activities and receiving community feedback regarding FHH available services and further services improvement.

• Provision of regular and scheduled health education to the community members particularly women regarding most relevant health issues (breast feeding, hygiene promotion, family planning, etc.)

• Performing normal and assisted delivery by herself to ensure the quality lifesaving services are available to all.

• Performing new born care and services in FHH as per standard procedures.

• Contributing to the services of basic emergency obstetric care management and referral services in FHH. Job Title FHH midwife Location Herat Reporting Provincial FHH supervisor/ mentor 2

• Screening of obstetric complication and situation during her duty in FHH particularly explore of obstetric fistula and similar situation and referring out the certain cases.

• Maintain and holding of all records and reports of FHH daily activities by registering and recording in the standard HMIS formats.

• Preparing monthly FHHs activities related reports and sharing with supervisor and entering all the data to KOBO system.

• Supervising CHWs for their activities in the field, regular meeting with CHWs and community members and collecting their reports for inclusion in FHH monthly report.

• Contributing to all type of controlling activities as per need (supporting monitoring team, supervision activities and any field assessment activity).

• Preparing updated FHH activities graphs and visual document for easy understanding of any party visiting the FHH.

• Updating, maintaining and keeping all supplies related document in the FHHs (stock cards, registers and consumption reports of pharmacy section)

• Performing IP related activities in FHHs including medical equipment and instruments sterilization and keeping the FHH area clean as per standard IP procedures.

• Performing screening of women and children for nutrition status and, providing counseling and referring identified malnutrition cases to upper health facilities.

• Providing counselling regarding vaccination of women and children and referring clients to vaccination services in case unavailability of vaccine services in the FHH. • Any other task determined by supervisor.