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| Midwife | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Helmand, |
| Categories | Health Care, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2021-12-30 | Close Date | 2021-12-25 |
| Vacancy No | 23292 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 2 | Contract Duration | 7 months |
| Education | Diploma in Midwifery | Experience | 2 Years relevant |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | Grade E Step 1-3 NTA Salary Scale |
About Company
About IRC (International Rescue Committee): The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity, and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home. The IRC opened the country program in Afghanistan in 1988. Our programs span the range from humanitarian relief to early recovery and development activities, focusing on child protection, education, economic wellbeing, health, and power. The IRC works in 9 provinces throughout Afghanistan, among which some of the most security volatile, and employs over 500 staff.
Job Description
Clinical Service Delivery
- Provide direct clinical care, working closely with the other health mobile team clinical staff to ensure the delivery of high quality comprehensive primary healthcare services.
- Triage, screening, and assessment of patients.
- Performs basic and assisted delivery care.
- Performs any needed neonatal and obstetric resuscitation activity.
- Ensures timely supported referrals to the nearest Emergency Obstetric Care center.
- Refers STI cases to the medical doctor.
- Identifies survivors of sexual assault and refers them for registration, counseling, and clinical care support
- Provides antenatal and postnatal care in line with relevant standards and protocols.
- Delivery of hygiene promotion, health education and patient/care giver counselling.
- Ensure adherence to infection prevention and control measures in line with COVID guidance
- Ensure accurate recording of information in the clinic registers, and timely completion of summary reports.
- Ensure mobile clinic areas are appropriately stocked with essential equipment and supplies.
- Carry out duties as per duty roster
- Ensure patient confidentiality is respected, and that all consultations are conducted in a dignified and respectful manner
Staff Supervision & Development
- Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and provide guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.
- Provide support and mentorship to other health mobile team staff, providing on-the-job training where needed.
Project Management
- Implement outreach activities with the rest of the team to access vulnerable clients to increase service utilization.
- Work with and support community volunteers to provide health promotion, community mobilization and awareness raising.
- Ensure regular inventory and consumption tracking of medical drugs and supplies.
- Work with relevant staff to ensure prompt requesting of medical drugs and supplies.
Monitoring and Reporting
- Ensure all patient consultations are documented and patient records completed.
- Submit reports in a timely manner.
Other Duties
- Consistently and proactively monitor/assess the safety and security of the team; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to IRC management and liaising with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for IRC programs.
Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs.
Job Requirement
- Qualified Midwifery diploma/certificate and registered with the Ministry of Health
- At least 2 years clinical midwifery experience.
- Previous experience and training in sexual gender-based violence and clinical care for sexual assault survivors and advantage
- Ability and flexibility to understand the cultural and political environment and to work well with the local health representatives.
- Skills to provide sensitive and appropriate medical counseling.
- Excellent communication skills, good spoken and writing of concise reports in English.
- Must be a team player with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure in a stressful environment, displaying patience, compassion, and diplomacy.
- Ability to be innovative, flexible, adaptive, and willingness to work out of hours, sometimes throughout the night.
- Ability to live in challenging conditions and ability to work under difficult, high pressure situations.
Desired qualifications:
- FEMALE applicants are strongly encouraged to apply
- English language
Submission Guideline
All qualified candidates are requested to open the given link and follow the instructions:
https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/23292?c=rescue
applications received without a given link and/or online system will be disqualified and removed from the entire process.
Shortlisted candidates will be directly contacted for a written test and after that for interviews. If you are not contacted TWO or FOUR WEEKS after the closing date .please know that your application has not been successful for the post. IRC Afghanistan Country Office, Qala-e-Fathullah, Street # 3, District 10, Old UNOCHA Office, Beside Fatemia Mosque.