Mid-Wife – Mobile Clinic at Medecins du Monde (MdM)

Job Title: Mid-Wife – Mobile Clinic

Job Description:

• Under the supervision of the Medical doctor-team lead mobile clinic, the Midwife will be responsible for the following main activities in order to ensure the quality of care in the mobile clinics:
• Provision of free of charge reproductive health consultations
• Implementation of health education sessions
• Collection, computerization and analysis of weekly epidemiological data

Responsibilities

• Reporting and attendance to different meetings

Provision of free of charge reproductive health consultations:

• Prepare all the material and equipment and ensure that everything is ready before starting the activities
• Follow the basic medical rules of hygiene when performing reproductive health consultations
• Participate actively in triage activities before to start reproductive health consultations
• Perform antenatal consultations according to the protocols , detect and mention all the risk factors 
• Perform postnatal consultations during the 6 weeks following the delivery, give appropriate treatment and refers to female medical doctor when needed. 
• Perform family planning consultations and counseling according to protocol 
• Give systematic prophylactic treatments to pregnant women 
• Refer to the female medical doctor all pregnant women with a pathology associated to the pregnancy
• Verify the tetanus vaccination of each pregnant woman
• Explain in details the treatment to the patient
• Manage RH emergency cases with the assistance of the medical doctor according to MdM protocols and regulation
• Fill in the reproductive health form for each patient
• Ensure patient confidentiality is respected and treat all the patients with respect and dignity

Implementation of health education sessions:

• Give health education sessions to the patients in the different waiting areas
• Spread main messages about health education for the following topics: immunization, antenatal care, post-natal care, assisted delivery, family planning, at-risk pregnancies, breastfeeding and weaning

Collection, computerization and analysis of weekly epidemiological data:

• Perform the daily data collection regarding reproductive health consultations 
• Participate to the weekly computerization  and analysis of the reproductive health data

Reporting and attendance to different meetings:

• Prepare a weekly activities report to submit to the team leader
• Participate in a pro-active way to MdM internal meetings (medical, security…)
• Participate to all the  trainings organized by MDM

Others:

• Give suggestions to improve the functioning of MDM mobile clinics 
• Participate to the loading and unloading of the vehicles and to  the setting up of the mobile clinics
• Participate to weekly physical inventory of mobile clinic pharmacy
• Be flexible in performing his/her duties to ensure that beneficiaries are getting good quality services
• Perform other additional duties on request of the team leader
• Inform immediately the security focal point in case of any security problem in the field. 

Application Instructions:

The application deadline is on the 18th September, 2024. Therefore qualified and interested candidates can “send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title and Location as the subject of the email.” It is important to visit the official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply successfully for this vacancy.

Website:

Official Job Website: https://www.medecinsdumonde.org/