Midwife

Main responsibilities:

Under the line management of the Program manager and with a functional link with SRH advisor, the midwife will:

• • Carry out sexual and reproductive health and Rights (SRHR) consultations and improve the quality of SRHR services in Rafic Hariri University Hospital PHCC

The main responsibilities and activities of the Midwife can change depending on the evolution of the context, the work organization and the team composition.

Main activities:

1. Carry out sexual and reproductive health and Rights (SRHR) consultations and improve the quality of SRHR services  

• Creating, updating, and monitoring patient medical record.

• Carrying out consultations (ANC, PNC, family planning), SRHR care including STIs
• Applying protocols and procedures

• Advising, monitoring, and providing information to patients/persons of concern.

• Identifying low risk cases and referring them to the birth centre
• Identifying and referring high risk cases to concerned service providers.

• Organising and following-up patient/user referrals

• Safely identifying and referring GBV cases to CMR unit.
• Identifying cases in need of MHPSS services and refer to MdM CMHC-SU

• Managing materials, equipment, and consumables for the activity

• Prescribing medications (according to the country's legislation)

• Reporting information and observations to members of the medical team.

• Supervising the cleaning and sterilisation of material and equipment

• Collecting data and draft activity reports

• Contributing to the management of medical waste

Behaviour:

• To adhere to MdM values and principles. 
• To behave with self-restraint at all times and respect the dignity of the beneficiaries.
• To be able to work as part of a team and participate in all activities of the health department.
• To be able to work in a humanitarian context and with limited resources
• To believe in concepts of equity, human rights, neutrality and impartiality.
• Demonstrate motivation at work.
• Demonstrate willingness to improve own knowledge and skills by participating in any capacity building activities.
• Respect each team member’s position, work and specialty.
• Adapt to special situations or demands from supervisor.

Requested Profile

• Midwife with experience

• 2 to 3 years of experience with an NGO or INGO
• Strong experience related to primary health care, maternal and child health, reproductive health
• Experience in SRHR and knowledge of national obstetric and newborn protocol
• Excellent interpersonal skills: maintain a transparent, honest and supportive communication structure within a team
• Proficiency with Microsoft word and excel.
• Knowledge of PHENICS
• Arabic and English languages are mandatory – French added value

Requested competences:

• Excellence in organizing, planning and prioritizing task
• Diplomacy and negotiation skills
• Dynamism, rigor, reactivity
• Solution oriented
• Ability to step back and look at the overall picture
• Strong ability to observe, analyse, report and take initiative.
• Ability to work with a team as well as to work independently.
• Ability to seek, collect, and critically analyse data and information needed to achieve the tasks.
• Clear commitment in the project thematic.
• Ability to communicate (orally and in writing) any technical or non-technical topic with clarity and to share any important project information with the team.
• Ability to self-reflect on your work, to recognize what needs improvement and to propose solutions.