Midwife
In MSF, midwives, nurses and doctors play a role in supporting sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services.
No matter what the context – conflicts, outbreaks, or natural disasters – women will continue to give birth, people will need contraception and access to safe abortion and survivors of violence will need care.
Typically, our local teams provide healthcare, and you will support them as you will be placed in the role of a manager or supervisor.
Responsibilities
As an MSF midwife you will support the delivery of healthcare in many settings from community-based care to busy maternity departments. It's a challenging and rewarding role and you'll be responsible for some or all of the following:
- Setting up maternity departments in health centres/hospitals
- Care for survivors of sexual violence
- Working with community birth attendants to ensure safe community birthing practices
- Supporting local women’s groups in the community
- Developing the capacity of local midwives and nurses
- Setting up contraception or safe abortion services
- On-call care, often 24 hours
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!
Role requirements
- Valid nursing and midwifery license and registration
- Minimum of two years relevant professional experience post-qualification with at least six months of clinical midwifery within the last two years
- Experience in supervising, managing and training others
- Experience of obstetric emergencies/complicated deliveries, abortion care, medical care of survivors of sexual violence, contraceptive care
- Willingness to be regularly on call for difficult and complicated births
- Experience living and working 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
- Global health or tropical nursing diploma
- Knowledge of STDs/HIV/AIDS
- Family planning experience
- Community midwifery experience
- French, Arabic language
In their own words
Get behind-the-scenes insights from one of our midwives, Alice Gautreau
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