Midwife

MSF UK; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

MSF UK seeks experienced midwives to provide essential care and training in challenging environments worldwide. This role involves working in health centres and outreach, handling both complex and normal deliveries, and requires adaptability and cross-cultural understanding. Candidates must hold NMC registration and have significant experience, especially in unstable areas.

Qualifications

• Two years' post-qualification experience required.
• Experience in supervising, managing, and training others.
• Willingness to regularly be on call for complicated deliveries.

Responsibilities

• Pre- and post-delivery care for mothers.
• Setting up maternity departments in health centres.
• Training local midwives and running community awareness programs.

Skills

Supervising others

Adaptability

Multicultural teamwork

Managing stress

Education

NMC or Irish Nursing Board registration

Tropical nursing diploma

Job description

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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 training birth attendants in busy maternity departments in big hospital settings, our midwives are a vital part of most project teams.

Responsibilities

As a Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) midwife, you'll work in both health centres and conduct outreach work in the community.

No matter what the context - 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'll 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/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

You could be involved in setting up a mother-child health department in a rural clinic, providing reproductive health care from mobile clinics, or treating patients in an urban hospital.

Your training skills will be crucial because you may be assigned to help traditional birth attendants develop new skills.

At the same time, you will need to learn from the women you treat to understand cross-cultural issues surrounding childbirth.

The tiny, cramped compound is always buzzing with children's cries and laughter. There, we treat and fix almost anything and everything: malaria (mostly), flu, broken bones, cuts, pneumonia... you name it!

Midwife

Caption: Christine, a Kenyan midwife, leads the maternity services in MSF primary health centres in Jamtoli and Hakimpara, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Anthony Kwan/MSF

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 training birth attendants in busy maternity departments in big hospital settings, our midwives are a vital part of most project teams.

Responsibilities

As a Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) midwife, you'll work in both health centres and conduct outreach work in the community.

No matter what the context - 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'll 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/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

As a midwife with MSF, your experience in both complicated and normal deliveries will be essential.

You could be involved in setting up a mother-child health department in a rural clinic, providing reproductive health care from mobile clinics, or treating patients in an urban hospital.

Your training skills will be crucial because you may be assigned to help traditional birth attendants develop new skills.

At the same time, you will need to learn from the women you treat to understand cross-cultural issues surrounding childbirth.

The tiny, cramped compound is always buzzing with children's cries and laughter. There, we treat and fix almost anything and everything: malaria (mostly), flu, broken bones, cuts, pneumonia... you name it!

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Application guide

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Role requirements

• Valid Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Irish Nursing Board registration
• Two years' 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
• Experience in low/middle-income countries
• Willingness to work in unstable areas
• Adaptable and able to work in a multi-cultural team
• Flexible and able to manage stress
• Available for nine to twelve months

Please note that in order to work with MSF as a midwife, it is not necessary to also be qualified as a nurse.

Assets

• Tropical nursing diploma
• Knowledge of STDs/HIV/AIDS
• Family planning experience
• Community midwifery experience