Feb 9, Medecins Sans Frontieres Midwife Jobs in Kenya

Responsibilities

Our midwives often have a dual responsibility; working in health centres and conducting outreach work in the community. No matter what the context – whether working in natural disasters, conflicts or poverty-affected communities – babies will continue to be born and midwives will always be needed.

It’s a challenging and rewarding role and you will be responsible for some or all of the following:

Pre and post-delivery care

Deliveries, often complicated

Care of survivors of sexual violence

Setting up maternity departments in new health centres or hospitals

Working with community birth attendants to ensure safe community birthing practices

Running awareness programs in the community

Training local midwives

On-call care, often 24 hours

Requirements

Valid registration

Two year’s post-qualification experience

Experience in supervising, managing and training others

Experience of obstetric emergencies/complicated deliveries, termination of pregnancy, sexual violence

Willingness to be regularly on call for difficult and complicated deliveries

Over three months experience of working in a low resource settings

Willingness to work in unstable areas

Available for six to nine months

Adaptable and able to work in a multi-cultural team

Flexible and able to manage stress

Fluency in English necessary to also be qualified as a nurse.

Qualifications

Tropical nursing diploma

Knowledge of STDs/HIV/AIDS

Family planning experience

Community midwifery experience

Good level of French or Arabic

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Medecins Sans Frontieres Midwife Jobs in Kenya

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