Name Job : Mobile clinic – Midwife
Deadline : 7/6/2021
Location: Al-Raida & Qusayr District
Reporting to: Mobile clinic team leader
Field medical foundation (FMF)
FMF is a non-profit and non-governmental organization aiming to provide health, nutrition, food security and protection services as a humanitarian response to the escalating socio-economic situation in Yemen since 2012.
Job Description
According to 2020 Humanitarian Needs, acute malnutrition among children under the age of 5 is estimated at just over 2 million children, including nearly 360,000 Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) cases. Given that a child with severe acute malnutrition is 11 times more at risk of death than a healthy child, preventing, detecting and treating malnutrition among children and improving IYCF practices are essential life-saving interventions that will contribute significantly to reducing the impact of the ongoing conflict on children in Yemen. Due to the current situation, FMF is proposing a project that aims to detect, prevent and treat acute malnutrition among the most vulnerable population (children under five, pregnant and lactating women (PLW)
Duties and Responsibilities
- Providing clinical care to women and adolescents for reproductive health problems
- Providing advice, care and support for women and their babies during antenatal and postnatal periods
- Developing, assessing and evaluating individual program of care
- Identify high risk cases and refer them to secondary care facilities if needed
- Arranging and providing health education on reproductive health issues
- Providing counselling and advice to all patients related to reproductive health
Job Requirements
- Diploma degree medicine, Nursing, medical assistant or in nutrition is required.
- 2 years of relevant work experience in CMAM and IYCF.
- Very good communication skills
- Extremely flexible, and have the ability to cope with stressful situation
- Preferable from the same district or Governorate.
How to Apply
Interested candidates are requested to submit their application by (https://forms.gle/XGbrCLjrmgaQT2RE6)