Job Description
Description
- Nurse/Midwives will be responsible for the delivery of quality, timely, and integrated sexual and reproductive health (SRH), maternal and newborn care, and nutrition services at PHCC Ngala.
- Focus on safe motherhood, essential newborn care, outpatient nutrition services, community engagement, and facility-based quality improvement.
- Ensure that lifesaving services are delivered according to national guidelines and humanitarian standards.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Maternal & Reproductive Health Services:
- Provide antenatal, intrapartum, post-partum, and post-natal care according to national and WHO/MISP standards.
- Manage normal deliveries and assist in complicated births.
- Ensure appropriate referral of obstetric and neonatal emergencies.
- Provide family planning counselling and services, including postpartum FP.
- Ensure early newborn care, vaccination referrals (EPI), and follow-up.
Integrated Nutrition Services:
- Support outpatient nutrition programs (MUAC screening, IYCF counselling, referral of severe cases).
- Conduct routine nutritional assessment for pregnant and lactating women (PLW) and newborns.
- Provide IYCF-E counselling to caregivers.
- Work closely with the nutrition team to detect and refer malnutrition among children under 5 and PLW.
Infection Prevention & Control (IPC) and Hygiene:
- Ensure strict adherence to IPC protocols, hygiene standards, waste disposal, and environmental cleaning.
- Supervise cleaners, sterilization staff, and support staff to maintain a safe clinical environment.
- Monitor sterilization of equipment and availability of essential IPC supplies.
Health & Nutrition Coordination at PHCC:
- Participate in joint planning, coordination, and daily implementation of integrated health and nutrition services.
- Support health promotion activities, including maternal nutrition, breastfeeding, ANC attendance, and facility delivery awareness.
- Work with community volunteers and mobilizers to improve service uptake.
Data Management & Reporting:
- Maintain accurate and complete health and nutrition records, registers, and patient files.
- Ensure timely submission of daily, weekly, and monthly reporting tools.
- Contribute to data quality checks and support monitoring and evaluation activities.
Staff Supervision & Capacity Strengthening:
- Supervise clinic support staff, cleaners, maternity assistants, and birth attendants.
- Provide on-the-job coaching on maternal health, newborn care, IPC, and nutrition practices.
- Support staff performance evaluation and participate in trainings, drills, and clinical updates.
Logistics & Supply Chain Support:
- Monitor stock levels of maternity, RH, and nutrition supplies.
- Report stockouts, submit requisitions, and ensure proper usage of commodities (drugs, supplements, delivery kits).
- Collaborate with pharmacy and logistics teams to maintain proper inventory and storage.
Humanitarian Principles & Community Accountability:
- Uphold humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence in daily work.
- Ensure confidentiality, dignity, and respectful maternity care at all times.
- Support complaint and feedback mechanisms as part of accountability to affected populations (AAP).
Qualifications & Experience
- Registered Nurse–Midwife (RNM) qualification or equivalent accredited qualification.
- Minimum 2 years clinical experience, preferably in humanitarian or low-resource settings.
- Experience in maternal and newborn care, nutrition programming, and emergency health services.
- Strong knowledge of IPC, obstetric emergencies, referral pathways, and nutrition screening.
- Ability to work in a dynamic, high-pressure humanitarian environment.