JOB DETAILS:
GLOBAL HEALTH CORPS AFRICA FELLOW
Since 2009, Global Health Corps (GHC) has built a network of 1150+ next gen leaders committed to transforming health systems. GHC recruits and selects highly qualified young professionals with diverse skill sets and backgrounds to be placed in high impact organizations for a 13 – month paid fellowship. During their fellowship year, fellows make significant contributions to their placement organizations and the communities they serve. They also engage in robust leadership training and integrate into GHC’s global network.
GHC welcomes young professionals from Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to apply for the fellowship to develop as a transformative leader while placed in health organizations in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia.
Selection Criteria
• We are looking for diverse high-potential leaders from every sector and professional background who bring the skills necessary to address critical health systems gaps and who embody our key leadership practices:
• Collaborative: You value inclusion and collaboration across sectors, cultures, and borders of all kinds. You are ready to listen to and embrace others’ perspectives, even when they are different from your own.
• Committed to learning: You are willing to push yourself outside your comfort zone often (while practicing self-care). You are ready to approach a personally transformative year with integrity, humility, and self-reflection.
• Inspiring and mobilizing: You are ready to strengthen and use your voice — the most powerful tool for change that you have — in order to engage others, create space for critical conversation, and effect meaningful social change in global health.
• Committed to social justice: You are passionate about social justice in health and have both the patience and the motivation to engage in the hard, complex work of building just health systems.
• Adaptive and innovative: You are excited by a design-thinking approach to building a better world, creatively embracing problems and ready to embrace failure as learning.
• Results-driven: You bring your best self and are motivated to do the day-to-day work needed to bring about positive change in the global health equity movement.
JOB DETAILS:
Maternity Africa (www.maternityafrica.org) is a Christian-based, charitable, non-governmental organization registered in Tanzania. It is devoted to making childbirth safe by providing access to good maternity services and treatment of obstetric fistulae and other birth related injuries. We serve the poorest, most vulnerable women by providing free, quality reproductive health care. All programmes have been developed to have a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of mother and child by minimizing maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality.
Maternity Africa is committed to its mission of making childbirth safe and demonstrating the love and compassion of Christ to all regardless of race, religion or ethnicity.
If you are kind, exceptionally skilled in midwifery, keen on continuous skills and professional development and enjoy working with patients this job is for you!
Duties and Responsibilities
• Ensure compliance of day to day clinical duties as allocated and required within the unit-including clinic, wards, delivery suite and theatres.
• Adhere to the documentation and data collection systems and ensure accuracy for the clinical area including ability to fill MTUHA and other register books.
• Ensure clinical waste is disposed appropriately
• Provide health education advice to antenatal and postnatal women and families including family planning counselling and advice.
• Conduct normal and abnormal deliveries i.e. twins and breech independently.
• Care for high-risk patients i.e. twin, pre-eclampsia/eclampsia BOH extra.
• Perform assisted deliveries in emergency situation.
• Manage obstetric emergency practically such as administration of Mgso4, management of PPH, Shoulder dystocia extra.
• Ready to work in rotations in all the clinical departments
• Take on any other roles and responsibilities that arise in the day to day running of the centre as defined by the management team
Key Qualification, Specifications and Experience
• Minimum qualification of a Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery or in Midwifery
• Must be registered by Tanzania Nursing and Midwifery Council and possess current practicing license.
• A minimum of 3 years’ proved professional experience (at-least 2 years of experience in labor ward is a MUST) in hospital/healthcare setting.
• Proficient in Microsoft office ie Microsoft word, excel and power point.
• Good understanding of Tanzania Nursing and Midwifery Council guidelines, policies, ethics and guiding procedures.
• Demonstrate knowledge of various guidelines in labor ward including management of dangerous drugs, PMTCT-1, oxytocin administration. Training on CeMOC or Bmoc will be added advantage.
• Knowledgeable on IPC and 5-S
• Kind, team player and able to work under minimum supervision.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36
Level of Education: Associate Degree
Job application procedure
Interested candidates are kindly requested to send their cover letter (Max of a Page), Curriculum Vitae (Max of 4 pages), Professional Certificates to recruitment@maternityafrica.org Application should be sent by 15th January, 2023. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted!