Midwife (Managed by Nairobi) at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

  • Full Time
  • Nairobi

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) offers impactful career opportunities for healthcare professionals and support staff. Committed to humanitarian aid, MSF provides extensive training and global deployment options. Employees gain unique experiences while making a difference in crisis-affected areas, fostering personal and professional growth.

Midwife (Managed by Nairobi)

  • Job Type Full Time
  • Qualification BA/BSc/HND , Diploma
  • Experience 2 years
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field Medical / Healthcare 

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

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on careers.msf-applications.org to apply

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