Midwife (14635) Libya
Background:
The IRC is currently starting its operations in Libya with the funding from SIDA to an emergency and reproductive healthcare programme, targeting especially vulnerable non-displaced Libyans, IDPs, and refugees and migrants in the Misrata area. According to assessments, healthcare is considered the biggest need in Libya, most urgently in terms of medical supplies, medicines, and health staff. There are significant gaps in the response, according to Libya’s Ministry of Health (MoH), the Libyan Red Crescent, UN agencies, and international NGOs.
Support from SIDA will reach beneficiaries of all ages, including women, men, girls, and boys, both Libyans and refugees/migrants. The emergency health activities—distribution of drugs and supplies, staff support, and trainings—will support the treatment of individuals of all age groups. The reproductive health activities—secondment of a midwife, RH trainings, and distributions of dignity and hygiene kits—will specifically target women and girls.
Job Overview/Summary:
This program seeks a qualified midwife who will work directly with IRCs Emergency Health Coordinator and Libyan health staff to ensure quality services within healthcare facilties in the Misrata area.
Responsibilities
- Carry out clinical activities and patient care alongside and in collaboration with local personnel including:
- examining and monitoring pregnant women
- assessing care requirements and writing care plans
- undertaking antenatal care
- carrying out screening tests
- 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 and providing information, emotional support and reassurance to women and their partners
- helping parents to cope with miscarriage, termination, stillbirth and neonatal death
- writing records
- Provide technical support and oversight to hospital/healthcare facility staff in patient care and service delivery
- Preparation and care of patients undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic procedures
- Referral of patients to and between hospitals/healthcare facilities
- Collaborate with the team leader and medical coordinator in sending orders for periodic re-stocking
- Work with M&E team to ensure accuracy and quality of data collected from all hospital/healthcare facilities on a monthly basis
- Conduct monthly data analysis and take action as appropriate
- Provide training to hospital/healthcare facility personnel for specific needs of the facility
- Works as a member of the team, taking in consideration the non-medical problems encountered by the patients (i.e. feeding and psychosocial)
- Develop and foster professional working relationship with medical counterparts of hospital/healthcare facilities
Requirements:
- Completion of post-graduate midwifery training
- 2-3 years clinical experience in a hospital settings, with low-resource settings preferable
- Technical expertise in infection, prevention and control
- Demonstrated experience in implementing IPC practices and systems improvement
- Demonstrated experience working with multiple partners and stakeholders
- Strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills
- Experience in training and mentoring
- Previous experience of working in North Africa preferable
- Fluent Arabic speaker