Locum Midwife Nurse
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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is hiring a Locum Midwife Nurse to deliver high-quality maternal and neonatal care in IRC-supported health facilities in Kenya. Responsibilities include antenatal care, labor and delivery management, postnatal care, emergency response, and accurate documentation. The role requires collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to ensure patient safety and quality care.
- Locum midwifery role with IRC in Kenya
- Requires KRCHN or KRM qualification and valid practicing license
- More than 2 years of clinical maternity ward experience needed
- Involves antenatal, labor, delivery, and postnatal care duties
- Opportunity to work in a humanitarian health setting
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Locum Midwife Nurse | IRC - International Rescue Committee
Locum Midwife Nurse
IRC - International Rescue Committee
Kenya
International
Mid level
Speaks English
Apply
Summary by Impactpool
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a Locum Midwife Nurse to provide high-quality maternal and neonatal care in IRC-supported health facilities. The role involves daily assessments, antenatal care, labor and delivery management, postnatal care, and emergency response. The nurse will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to ensure patient safety and quality care. Additionally, the position requires maintaining accurate documentation and participating in continuous quality improvement initiatives.
Candidate
Requirements
Kenya Registered Community Health Nurse (KRCHN) or Kenya Registered Midwife (KRM)
Registered with the Nursing Council of Kenya with a valid practicing license
More than 2 years of clinical maternity ward
for the position and that you qualify. Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.
Summary by Impactpool
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a Locum Midwife Nurse to provide high-quality maternal and neonatal care in IRC-supported health facilities. The role involves daily assessments, antenatal care, labor and delivery management, postnatal care, and emergency response. The nurse will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to ensure patient safety and quality care. Additionally, the position requires maintaining accurate documentation and participating in continuous quality improvement initiatives.
Candidate
Kenya Registered Community Health Nurse (KRCHN) or Kenya Registered Midwife (KRM)
Registered with the Nursing Council of Kenya with a valid practicing license
More than 2 years of clinical maternity ward
Experience
Excellent clinical acumen and critical thinking skills
Fluent communication skills, both verbal and written
Ability to work in a team and manage patient care
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.
SCOPE OF WORK
:
The Registered Nurse - Midwife is responsible for the day-to-day implementation of Maternal and Neonatal Care, in the maternity unit within IRC supported Health facilities. S/he will work closely with other maternity staff including Doctors, Nurses, Clinical Officer, Auxiliary nurses and by proxy with the theatre staff, to ensure quality of care for patients and babies admitted in the unit and aim to promote quality of care for Gynae and or Emergency obstetric and Neonatal Care patients in the IRC supported health facilities.
Responsibilities/Main Duties:
Quality maternal and perinatal care: Able to offer high quality nursing care during admissions in maternity, hospital stay and discharging mothers and newborns. On spot/ Daily assessment of general /clinical condition, early identification of complications, Sound clinical judgement call for help, communicating promptly, as you stabilize the mother/newborn. Able to assess ready for discharge of mothers and their newborns, prepare their documentation.
Antenatal Care: Conducting regular check-ups, monitoring maternal and foetal vital signs, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, and providing health
Kenya Registered Community Health Nurse (KRCHN)/Kenya Registered Midwife. (KRM) from a recognized Nursing Training Institution
Registered with the Nursing Council of Kenya with valid practicing licence.
More than 2 years of clinical maternity ward
in a busy facility.
Added advantage
Previous work
in a limited resource setting is an added advantage.
Ability to speak local language will be an added advantage.
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.
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Fluent communication skills, both verbal and written
Ability to work in a team and manage patient care
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Locum Midwife Nurse
IRC - International Rescue Committee
Kenya
International
Mid level
Speaks English
Apply
Education
on nutrition and birth preparedness.
Labor and Delivery Management: Monitoring the progress of labour using a labour care guide, providing physical and emotional support, administering medications as prescribed (e.g. antibiotics, uterotonics, analgesics), conducting normal vaginal deliveries, AMSTEL, being part of the MDT conducting difficult deliveries breech, AVDs which are rare and performing neonatal resuscitation.
Postnatal Care: Monitoring mothers for signs of complications (e.g., haemorrhage, infection), assessing uterine involution and lochia, assisting with early ambulation, and educating mothers on breastfeeding, perineal care, and post-partum family planning.
Emergency Response: Early Identification of obstetric and neonatal complications and instituting timely and appropriate interventions and escalating care to medical officers.
Referral: Able to process patient referral documents, prepare equipment’s and medication for use on transit. Accompany patient during referral within hospital departments or during external movement to a healthcare
Documentation and Reporting: Maintaining accurate and complete documentation of your work, up-to-date clinical records, patient charts, and reports in EMR to include Ministry of Health reports, in compliance with healthcare regulations in utilizing and sharing data for decision making.
Continuous quality Improvement and Safety: Executing nursing care model and utilizing results with multi-disciplinary team to improve patient management. Adhering to infection prevention and control (IPC) measures, participating in MPDSR audits and quality improvement activities, Respectful maternity care and ensuring a safe clinical environment for staff, patients and relatives.
Skills: Key skills include excellent clinical acumen (Certificate in EMONC training), critical thinking, communication, problem-solving, negotiating and a compassionate, patient-centered approach to care and being a team player.
Able to communicate fluently verbally and written. Use of SBAR during hand over /referral.
Leadership and management: Able to cover calls, hospital covering, performing doctor’s round, ward management, team leader able to make sound judgements in patient care and staff management. Attending Meetings, CMEs and trainings as required.
Accountability: Able to clear after every procedure, Equipment and instrument processing as per national guidelines. Equipment inventory and safety to include functional emergency crash cart in every shift.
Ensure emergency preparedness trays and equipment inventory is in place in maternity and items monitored and are updated daily through a structured handover during every shift.
Executing any other duty allocated by your supervisor.
Reporting/Communication:
Responsible for compiling daily Nursing care activity reports while handing over in shifts.
Responsible for accurate record keeping, ordering and accountability of equipment and supplies.
Attend ward meeting, monthly hospital meetings and or facilitate Continuous Medical
Ensure that all admissions, discharges, transfers and deaths are properly documented and recorded as they occur and participate in respective mortality audits.
Report any significant changes in clinical operations to the supervisor.
Any other duties assigned by supervisor.
Operations:
Maintain departmental equipment, suction machines, resuscitators, various procedure sets are maintained and always in good condition and submit regular inventory reports of the same.
Report on any significant changes in operations to the head nurse.
Systems Compliance and Improvement:
Ensure IRC-Kenya program specific finance, logistics, IT, security, communications and human resource/administration policies and procedures are adhered to.
Comply with any new procedures and guidelines designated in circulation from SMT and or Field team Management.
Confidentiality:
Ensuring the nondisclosure of any information whatsoever relating to the practices and business of IRC acquired in the course of duty, to any other person or organization without authority, except in the normal execution of duty.
Note:
The role of the
Midwife
cannot be limited to the specific duties and tasks detailed herein. The success of the IRC’s humanitarian mission is the highest priority and all issues which arise must be addressed accordingly. Therefore, the
Midwife
will be required to manage all unforeseen issues and circumstances and remain flexible to perform other duties, as and when required.
Qualifications, Skills and