Nurse midwife Offres d'emploi - North York, ON

Responsibilities

As a midwife with Doctors Without Border / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), you will be involved in coordinating mother and child health departments in rural clinics, providing reproductive healthcare from mobile clinics or treating patients in a hospital. Your role is to implement and coordinate maternal health programs, supervise and train staff and support with policy development

You will mainly supervise birth attendants and provide training as needed. You may be involved in hands-on assessment and treatment of women in areas where formal health systems are lacking. Midwives are in charge of prenatal and postnatal consultations including counselling for family planning, as well as data collection, analysis and reporting.

Requirements

• Full and current registration
• Minimum two years of post-qualification work experience
• Experience in medical and surgical termination of pregnancy, management of sexually transmitted infections, management of complicated deliveries in hospital settings, family planning
• At least six months of clinical experience within the last two years
• Experience in managing staff in a multicultural team (supervision and training)
• Excellent command of English
• Relevant travel or work experience in contexts similar to where MSF works (armed conflicts, disasters, public health emergencies or situations of healthcare exclusion)
• Available to work six to 12 months

Assets

MSF Core Competencies

Familiarity with EDI concepts and their application in a humanitarian context