Mid Wife

with Mother's Heart
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Job Announcement

BTDC-ID: 31615
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Announcement Positions

Announcement Description

MHO is the first and currently only crisis pregnancy center in Cambodia. MHO has developed a program that is at the forefront of preventing child family separation and supporting women with unplanned or unwanted pregnancies. We proactively support single women and their families through crisis pregnancies ensuring that every unplanned/unwanted baby of a single woman is either raised by his/her mother, extended family, or is placed in permanent foster care. MHO has two main programs: 1. Crisis Pregnancy Counseling 2. Pregnancy Support Program. Through our Crisis Pregnancy Counseling program, every woman is able to make informed decisions on what is best for her and the future of her baby. Our Pregnancy Support program offers women access to support if they want to parent their babies, find close relatives who can parent their babies, or place their babies in a new family.

Announcement Positions

Mid Wife

Position Summary

Location: Phnom Penh (Travelling and overnight stay at provincial)

Benefits: compliance to MHO’s policy

Report to: Senior Social Worker

Expectations - Duties, Responsibilities
  • Manage pregnant women/girls medical cases including schedules for immunization, ANC, PNC, delivery, follow up visits, etc.
  • Work as part of a team in collaboration with the social workers.
  • Travel and overnight stay to other provinces to follow up on MHO’s beneficiaries if needs.
  • Provide hands on care to women/girls weighing babies, helping with breast feeding, checking infant development, identifying and appropriately handling medical concerns.
  • Be an advocate for medical needs of pregnant women and their babies.
  • Teach health classes to MHO’s beneficiaries (antenatal, delivery, postnatal, parenting education, breast feeding, etc.)
  • Facilitate the women and children to have medical appointments. Answering beneficiary’s questions about their medical concerns, supporting them during their pregnancy and after.
  • Distribute the baby basket or other need materials to support to MHO’s beneficiaries
  • Be prepared to deal with MHO’s beneficiaries in medical crisis and offered specific case management to varying beneficiary’s medical needs.
  • Coordinate with the social workers and government health agencies and care giver schedules according to MHO’s beneficiaries needs.
  • Partner with health center staff, referral health department, health clinics, and other hospitals, etc.
  • Be partnering with local and International NGOs in term of bringing benefit to MHO’s beneficiaries
  • Create professional caring relationships with MHO’s beneficiaries and staff
  • Willing to Hospital at night if it is necessary for visit women/babies.
Requirements - Skills, Qualifications, Experience
  • Midwife or Nurse Graduate
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong critical thinking skills and good teamwork
  • Willing to learn the new thing/new initiative and creativities to improve works
  • Experience in caring for pregnant women/crisis pregnancy women
  • Be an honest, proactive, adaptable, and kind person
  • Be highly organized, observant, able to plan, clearly communication, and problem solve.
  • Language requirement: good command of English
  • Computer skills, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
 

How to Apply

Interested Candidates, please submit your resume to this email address provided in the contact details.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.

 

Contact Details

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  • Mother’s Heart
 
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