Overview

Post: Volunteer Nurse-midwife with four posts

Kivulini Maternity Centre, Arusha, is your work station.

Sector: Health, Industry

Job type: full-time

For whom are we?

Maternity Africa’s headquarters are in the Arusha Region, Northern Tanzania. It aims to raise the outcomes related to maternal health for impoverished, underprivileged women and girls of childbearing age living in rural Tanzania.

Maternity Africa contracts formally to offer medical services on behalf of the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly, and Children (MoHCDGEC). Maternity Africa also has a Memorandum of Understanding with Arusha District Council to offer free maternal health services to underprivileged and disadvantaged women. Together with other non-governmental organisations (NGRs), Maternity Africa advocates women’s health and welfare and offers free, high-quality, evidence-based maternal health services.

Based at Kivulini Maternity Centre, Maternity Africa aims to be a “centre of excellence” that also enhances the knowledge, skills, experience, competency, and confidence of national health care providers. It does this by means of staff engaged in service delivery undergoing mentoring and training. Additionally provided by Maternity Africa are tertiary-level student placements from some of Tanzania’s institutions and universities.

Maternity Africa provides treatment for and prevention against obstetric fistula. Maternity care provides early pregnancy difficulties, prenatal, delivering, and postoperative care as well as prevention programs. This covers 24-hour obstetric emergencies as well as on-site transitional newborn care for newborns. For fistula and other birth-related injuries, surgical intervention is used to treat them. Maternity Africa provides local communities and inpatients with a complete family planning service as well.

Under the requirements of the Non-Governmental Organisations Act, 2002, Maternity Africa registered in Tanzania as a non-governmental organisation (NGO). Its registration number is 00NGO/R2/000 525.

Aiming to provide fistula treatment and appropriate maternity care for all underprivileged women throughout Tanzania, Maternity Africa is a Christian-based not-for-profit organisation. We achieve this in the model of showing love, compassion, and kindness regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity and via clinical excellence.

From its base at Kivulini Maternity Centre west of Arusha, Northern Tanzania, Maternity Africa works.

Regarding what this role is about,?

This role entails providing high-standard maternal nursing care to vulnerable pregnant women during antenatal care, delivery, and postnatal care and while providing birth injury treatment/surgeries, i.e., fistula operations. We love and value our patients and aim to provide the best treatment and outcomes. The ideal match for this position should show professionalism in midwifery and handling of obstetric emergencies and show respect, sympathy, and kindness while contacting the women under treatment. Furthermore, this position fits for lifelong learning since it offers great skills and chances for professional development given by local and international mentors as well as training programs.

How will you contribute to changing the team as a whole?

giving expecting women prenatal and postpartum care.
tending to newborns and patients in labour and delivery.
Doing normal gynaecological treatment includes tests.
Teaching clients family planning and parenting
Preserving patient medical notes
Working with other medical experts and, when called for, referring patients to experts
Medical condition testing and diagnosis
offering expecting and new mothers emotional support
Giving youngsters under five years old vaccines.
Giving moms all kinds of family planning techniques.
Recording notes, guiding trainee midwives, spotting high-risk pregnancies
Monitoring and giving injections and intravenous infusions during delivery; any additional responsibilities as specified.
Requirements, abilities, and competencies Standards

Minimum of a diploma in nursing and midwifery and a nursing and midwifery registration certificate from TNMC.
a licenced, valid nurse practitioner.
adept in handling obstetric crises.
Excellent people skills to establish professional rapport with patients
must be able to practice loving care, compassion, and kindness to patients; must have Microsoft Office knowledge.
For patient understanding of their decisions and their consequences, being conversant in both written and spoken English and Kiswahili helps.
eager to pick knowledge and has a good mindset.

Application rules

By 31st January, 2025, all interested applicants should forward their qualifications credential certificates, cover letter, curriculum vitae, and current TNMC practicing licence to [email protected]. Please consider your volunteer application failed this time if you are not contacted within 14 days of the closing date of this advertisement. Maternity Africa disclaims any payment requests or charges throughout the hiring process.