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To provide high-quality maternal and newborn care services, ensuring safe deliveries and optimal maternal and child health outcomes. The position will report to the maternity ward in charge.

Key Responsibilities

Maternal Care:

• Provide comprehensive antenatal care, including health assessments, counseling, and education.

• Identify high risk pregnancies and making necessary referrals to medical officers.

• Supervise and assist mothers in labor, monitor labor using partograph and nursing care plans.

• Ensure all required observations, prescribed treatments and procedures are properly carried out and documented in the patient’s chart.

• Provide postnatal care, including counseling on breastfeeding, family planning, and newborn care.

• Identify and manage complications during pregnancy, labor, and postpartum periods.

• Ensure birth registration is carried out promptly before discharge of both mother and baby.

• Offering support and counselling following miscarriages, stillbirth, early neonatal death, birth asphyxia and congenital anomalies.

• Arranging and providing health education for the mother, her partner and family.

• Offer family planning counseling and services, including long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs).

Neonatal Care:

• Provide immediate newborn care, including resuscitation, thermal regulation, and early breastfeeding.

• Monitor newborn health and identify any potential complications through assessment of the newborn.

• Administer essential neonatal interventions, such as vitamin K and vaccinations.

Family Planning:

• Provide counseling and education on post-partum family planning methods.

• Offer contraceptive methods, including long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs).

Record Keeping:

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date electronic medical records for all patients.

• Submit timely reports on maternal and child health indicators.

Training and Supervision:

• Participate in training and capacity-building activities to enhance skills and knowledge.

• Supervise and mentor junior staff.

Community linkage:

• Coordinate with the community health workers to ensure continuity of care of all clients on discharge.

Additional duties:

• Supervise incentive staffs working in the maternity ward

• Escort patient to other referral hospital when necessary.

• Do hospital coverage and on-call as required.

• Monitor and supervise proper usage of supplies.

• Maintain equipment in good condition and submit regular inventory report of the same.

• Carry out any other additional duties as may be assigned by the supervisor

Key Result Areas:

• Reduced maternal and neonatal mortality rates

• Increased uptake of antenatal and postnatal care services

• Improved postnatal family planning utilization rates

• Effective supervision and mentorship of junior staff.

Required Qualifications:

• KRN/KRM, Bachelors in Midwifery from a recognized institution.

• Registration with the Nursing Council of Kenya

Required Experience & Competencies:

• At least 4 years of experience in a busy maternity ward

• Emergency Obstetrics and Newborn Care is mandatory

• Respectful maternal newborn competency trainings highly desirable.

• Strong clinical skills and knowledge of maternal and child health

• Ability to work under pressure and in challenging environments

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS

All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.