VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
SOS Children’s Villages International is the umbrella organization to which all SOS Children’s Villages including SOS Children’s Villages Somalia Association is affiliated. SOS Children’s Villages Somalia has officially been working in Somalia since 1985. SOS is currently working in 134 countries worldwide. We are committed to the welfare of children – often throughout the whole of their childhood, and to strengthening families and communities as a preventive measure in the fight against abandonment and social neglect. We also run education and health facilities. With the SOS Children’s Village concept, the organization pioneered a family approach to the long-term care of orphaned and abandoned children. SOS Children’s Villages upholds child protection policy and our selection processes reflect our commitment to the protection of children and youth from abuse. SOS Currently working in Banadir and Bay Regions, we expending our services to Bakool Region
SOS Children’s Villages invites applications from suitably qualified and interested candidates who fulfill the eligibility criterion for the below Position of Midwife Volunteer.
Job Title: Midwife Volunteer (5 Positions)
Location: Mogadishu/Heliwa
Job Summary:
The position holder is expected to learn midwifery and work under the midwife incharge in busy maternity unit providing 24 hour BEMONC services to women and newborns. Under the supervision of the midwife incharge of the section the post holder will train in provision of triaging, assessment, Active Management of Third Stage of Labour (AMTSL), resuscitation of women and newborns and provide nursing services.
Report to: Midwife incharge
Key Area of responsibility:
prepare patients for, and assist with, examinations and treatments
Supervise and assist mothers in labour, monitoring the condition of the foetus and using knowledge of drugs and pain management.
offer support and advice following events such as miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal abnormality and neonatal death.
Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records
monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activitiy
Provide standard nursing care to patients admitted iin the wards
Communicate with patient and relatives to optimize care and treatment.
Monitor, record and report to the doctor in charge any symptoms and changes inpatients conditions
. Prepare rooms, sterile instrument and supplies, equipment and supplies, and ensure the stock of supplies is maintained.
hand items to surgeons during operations.
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Instruct individuals, families and other groups on topics such health education, kangaroo nursing, exclusive breastfeeding, disease prevention and childbirth, and develop health improvement programs
Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient’s condition
Administer local, inhalation, intravenous, and other anaesthetic
Perform physical examinations, make tentative diagnoses, and treat patients with with minor illness
To assist when necessary in providing emergency cover outside normal working hours
To work with senior medical staff so as to develop their supervision, teraining and management skills.
Any other task assigned by your line manager
Qualification & Experience
Bachelor degree in Midwifery
Good counselling and communication skills
Observing client confidentiality and privacy
Good experience in BEMONC & Familiarity with CEMONC services
Able to provide Basic Life Support to women and newborns
Competencies – knowledge, skills, abilities
Practical Skills:
TRIAGING of women in labour
Active management of third stage of labour
Using partograph to manage labour
Able to manage and organize services in labour room.
Resuscitate mothers and newborns.
Organize CEMONC services for women in need
Link postpartum women and children to immunization services
Personal Qualities & Attributes:
Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure
A good communicator with other midwives, doctors, support staff, individuals, families and parapatients.
Very good organization skills
Team player
Able to work with minimal supervision
Child Safeguarding Policy: SOS Children’s Villages organization is committed to safeguarding the rights of the children and therefore, is expected that every individual who joins with SOS Children’s Villages Somalia understand his/her responsibility in protecting and keeping children always safe.
A loving home for every child
Application Procedure:
Interested applicants should send their applications with a CV, clear subject line and scanned copies of your academic and professional certificates indicating telephone numbers and three referees to: this email hr@sossomalia.org
Closing date is 16th May 2019
Competent Female candidate are Preferable to apply
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
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SOURCE: Midwife Volunteer (5 Positions)
