Job Description

Title: Midwife

Company Name: Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Cox's Bazar

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Noakhali, Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Diploma in Midwifery
∎ Completed three years of Midwife course
∎ Must have valid and updated registration with Bangladesh Nursing & Midwifery Council

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ GK was created in 1972 with two visions. Firstly, "the fate of the poor decides the fate of the country". Secondly, the "development of the country depends on the development of women". Since 2017, Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK) and UNHCR have entered into a partnership to respond to the Rohingya crisis in Cox`s Bazar and Bhasanchar.
∎ Working Place: Ukhiya/ Teknaf/Bhasanchar

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Cooperates with the medical teams in the structure to ensure the quality of health care delivered.
∎ Performs clinical activities such as ante-natal consultations, delivery, and after-delivery follow-up, post-natal consultations, family planning consultations, and newborn care.
∎ Checking that medical protocols are followed and prescriptions are correct
∎ Ensuring hygiene and safety rules are followed
∎ Collects data, Creates activity reports
∎ Willing to field visit on per need basis.
∎ Team Management activities of SRH volunteers (Capacity building, Performance evaluation, etc.)
∎ Ensure Family Planning services (Counseling, referral and proper documentation and reporting, etc.)
∎ Ensure Community engagement and Gender diversity.
∎ Establish and maintain good communication & collaboration with community influencers and TBAs.
∎ Participate in SRH Technical group activities including verbal autopsy.
∎ The employee shall respect Gonoshasthaya Kendra's & UNHCR's Conditions of Engagement
∎ Responsible for maintaining excellent infection control standards at the facility level
∎ Flexibility in working hours because of the emergency nature of activities
∎ Ability to face workload and good time management
∎ Additional Accountabilities:
∎ Supervising, supporting, and evaluating the team under her responsibility particularly midwives, and other related staff in her team.
∎ Manages human resources rosters, writes job descriptions, assists with recruitment, replaces absent personnel, organizes team meetings, carries out individual reviews, and helps staff understand internal regulations.
∎ Ensuring teamwork and a professional relationship between the different departments.
∎ Supervising the clinical activities in all the maternity departments and activities such as ante-natal consultations, delivery and post-partum, post-natal consultations, family planning consultations newborn vaccinations, liaising with the Medical Doctor about the patients who need special care times, etc.
∎ Ensuring that the staff on duty knows, implements, and follows at all times the universal hygiene standards/ precautions, bio-hazard prevention, and infection control in the medical premises ensuring high standards of hygiene in the working environment
∎ Ensuring that all staff in her team using medical devices are qualified and trained, cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols, and reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.
∎ Ensure appropriate decisions regarding the referral of patients to external hospitals for further care, these decisions should follow current SOPs, be made at the appropriate time, and be correctly documented with a clear handover of the patient. The method of transport should be appropriate and the team should collaborate with the Referral team.
∎ In addition support to family planning Services
∎ Special Note:
∎ Carry out any additional assignment in accordance with her/ his position entrusted by the clinic Manager of GK from time to time and mutually agreed upon;
∎ Management may, at any point in time, modify this job description as it is deemed necessary in Gonoshasthaya Kendra's interests in consultation with the incumbent.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 40 years
∎ Only females are allowed to apply
∎ Working experience in a refugee context is highly preferred,
∎ Good command of the Chittagonian/ Rohingya language gets preference.
∎ Ability to cope with stress working in a camp environment.
∎ Flexibility to perform other tasks and take initiative when required.
∎ Cultural awareness/ sensitivity and empathy to the target population.

Salary: Negotiable

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Insurance

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 15 Dec 2023

Company Information:
∎ 10 Dec 2023
∎ Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Cox's Bazar
∎ Address : 40/ A, Mukti Jodda Shoroni, Saimon Road, Baharchara, Cox's Bazar.

Category: Nurse

: Only shortlisted applicants will be called upon for interviews. The selected candidates need to be joined ASAP

Source: bdjobs.com

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