Job Description

As a midwife with MSF your experience in both complicated and normal deliveries will be essential.

From visiting expectant mums deep in the jungle to carrying out ante-natal checks, to training birth attendants in busy maternity departments in big hospital settings, MSF midwives are a vital part of most project teams.

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

Please note that in order to work with MSF as a midwife, it is not 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

DOCUMENT TO COMPLETE:

Due to the nature of MSF's maternity projects, it is essential to have more information about your specific technical competences in obstetrics. It is a checklist, intended for midwives who may have responsibilities in obstetrics and reproductive health. It must be completed according to your current level of practice. The first part covers basic skills and key competences, while the second part includes emergency obstetric procedures.

This information will be useful for a better allocation of staff to the positions and to identify specific training needs. The lack of skills will not prevent you from being assigned a mission, so please be honest in your self-assessment.

Please download this file:

https://performancemanager.successfactors.eu/medicossin/MSF_CV_TEMPLATE_MIDWIVES_ENG.pdf

Complete it and upload the completed document in the step of the application after you click Apply.