Requirements

Additional Requirements

• Age at least 22 years

• Minimum one-year professional experience
• Experience in running a maternity/MCH clinic will be an asset
• Knowledgeable in sexual, reproductive and maternal health programming
• Good skills in delivering trainings and health education
• Fluency in oral and written communication in English, including representation, liaison and negotiation skills. Knowledge of Bangla and Chitagonian would be an asset.

Responsibilities & Context

1) Provide Antenatal care to pregnant women attending ANC services

• Welcoming all the pregnant women coming for the ANC services into health facilities.
• Conduct screening for all pregnant women in accordance with the national protocol.
• Provide all services given in ANC including protocol drugs and screening for all mothers.
• Identify all Risk factors associated with the pregnancy and refer appropriately and take actions.
• Provide Iron supplementation, and ensure the mothers are immunized with TT toxoid as per the protocol.
• Provide Health education and nutrition education for all women attending ANC services.
• Register all the required information on the ANC Registers and ANC cards as per protocol.

2) Provide Postnatal care as per the protocols to all women attending PNC clinic.

• Conduct screening for all lactating women attending Post- Natal care in accordance with national protocol.
• Provide Vitamin A, medical supplements and other protocol drugs as per protocol to lactating women.
• Provide Nutrition counselling and health education on importance of lactation.
• Send the caretaker to EPI department for immunization.
• Conduct Normal and complicated deliveries in line with all guidelines.
• Monitor labour using partograph and in Line with all guidelines provided to monitor deliveries.
• Respond to all cases of Obstetric emergencies in line with the protocols in consultation with the doctor and other medical staff.
• Identify, stabilize and refer all cases of emergency obstetric complications with the help of the doctors and other medical staff.

5) Infection control and universal precautions.

• Adhere to international standards in infection control and waste management.
• Ensure aseptic techniques in provision of RH services.
• Sterilize and disinfect all the instruments used during delivery and other obstetric services.

6) Heath Education.

• Providing health education at the reproductive health waiting area and at all levels of RH care
• Participate in provision of one to one health education to all patients during consultation and services delivery

7) Other roles.

• Provide support and supervision to other staff when called upon to by the Maternity Supervisor.

Skills & Expertise