Midwife Supervisor

Requirements

Responsibilities & Context

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 the 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

Skill and Competencies

Midwifery Qualification: Diploma in Midwifery

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.

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Please note that applications via any other method will not be considered.

“FRIENDSHIP is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults, and employees, Donors, visiting Doctors, visiting Journalists, visitors, beneficiaries, including communities where we work and volunteers/interns. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation – regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure fully include background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding. 

FRIENDSHIP is an equal opportunity employer and will do everything possible to ensure that those who are suitable to work within our values and beliefs are recruited to work for us. Any personal persuasion will result in a disqualification of candidature”.

The photograph must be enclosed with the resume.

Workplace

Work at office

Employment Status

Contractual

Job Location

Anywhere in Bangladesh