Job Description
Highview Clinic Is Looking For A Midwife
Duties and Responsibilities
Roles and Responsibilities of a Midwife
1. Give the necessary supervision, care, and advice to women during pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period.
2. Provide full antenatal care, including screening tests in the hospital, community, and the home.
3. Provide counseling and advice before and after screening and tests.
4. Conduct deliveries on her own and care for the newborn infant.
5. Manage complications in pregnancy and childbirth, by the principles of basic emergency obstetric care.
6. Identify high-risk pregnancies and making referrals to doctors and other medical specialists.
7. Provide support and advice following events such as miscarriage, termination, stillbirth, neonatal abnormality, and neonatal death.
8. Provide primary care to women of productive age.
9. Supervise the registered general nurses, nurse aides and students on training.
10. Counsel and educate women, the family, and the community, in relevant areas of health and provide a program of parenthood preparation and complete preparation for childbirth including advice on hygiene and nutrition.
11. Give support and advice on the daily care of the baby, including breastfeeding, bathing, and making up feeds.
12. Provide all non-surgical methods of family planning, and counseling for surgical methods.
13. Follow standard policies, procedures, and objectives; continuous quality improvement initiatives; safety, environmental, and infection prevention standards.
14. Decreased risk of needing a cesarean and reduced rate of labor induction and augmentation.
15. Help to decrease infant mortality rates and preterm birth and take all initiatives which are necessary in case of need and carry out where necessary immediate resuscitation.
16. Help to decrease the maternal mortality rate and pregnancy-related sufferings.
Qualifications and Experience
Relevant Qualifications
How to Apply
Due date 26 September 2025
Location:Highfield
CVs and application letter to be send to admin@highviewclinic.co.zw
