Under the overall supervision of the MHT medical doctor, the MHT midwife will be responsible for providing RMNCAH services in the MHT clinic. She will be contributing to health services provision in the community-based health facility with more focus on reproductive health. As per the project donor (UNFPA) and AFGA strategic plan, the MHT midwife will be contributing to health services access improvement through close engagement with the targeted community through health shura members, family health action group (FHAG), and CHWs.
Specific Responsibilities:
• Providing health services community-based through MHT, particularly to women during pregnancy, delivery, and post-partum phase.
• Contributing to the provision of efficient and respectful health care to people particularly women at the age of childbearing and girls.
• Practicing evidence-based midwifery care through applying her knowledge and skills to meet the needs of women and their families.
• Providing high-quality reproductive health, family planning, breast, and cervical cancer counseling to the client during their admission to MHT.
• Maintain, update, and improve professional and personal knowledge and skills to provide quality, acceptable, and accessible services to clients.
• Providing appropriate supervision and advance care to women during pregnancy, delivery, and post-partum phases.
• Conducing regular meetings with women and their family members regarding MHT activities, providing health promotion activities, and receiving community feedback regarding MHT available services and further services improvement.
• Provision of regular and scheduled health education to the community members particularly women regarding most relevant health issues (breastfeeding, hygiene promotion, family planning, etc.)
• Performing normal and assisted delivery by herself to ensure that quality lifesaving services are available to all.
• Performing newborn care and services in MHT as per standard procedures.
• Contributing to the services of basic emergency obstetric care management and referral services in MHT.
• Screening of obstetric complications and situations during her duty in MHT particularly exploring obstetric fistula and similar situations and referring out the certain cases.
• Maintain and holding of all records and reports of MHT daily activities by registering and recording in the standard HMIS formats.
• Preparing monthly FMHT activities-related reports sharing them with the supervisor and entering all the data into the KOBO system.
• Contributing to all types of controlling activities as needed (supporting monitoring team, supervision activities, and any field assessment activity).
• Preparing updated MHT activities graphs and visual documents for easy understanding of any party visiting the MHT.
• Performing IP-related activities in MHT including medical equipment and instruments sterilization and keeping the MHT area clean as per standard IP procedures.
• Performing screening of women and children for nutrition status, providing counseling, and referring identified malnutrition cases to upper health facilities.
• Providing counseling regarding vaccination of women and children and referring clients to vaccination services in case of unavailability of vaccine services in the MHT.
• Providing counseling regarding family planning methods and providing family planning methods as per counseling
• Any other task determined by the supervisor.
