Midwife / Batroun Branch

Operational Roles and Responsibilities

1. Examine and monitor pregnant beneficiaries, provide necessary treatments and prescriptions as identified necessary and based on protocols set by HQ
2. Provide information, emotional support and reassurance to women and their partners
3. Offer support and advice following events such as miscarriage, termination, stillbirth, neonatal abnormality and neonatal death
4. Give support and advice on the daily care of the baby, including breastfeeding, bathing and making up feeds
5. Prepare beneficiaries for labor, childbirth and postpartum
6. Identify high risk pregnancies or complications that require medical assistance and make referrals to relevant Physicians and other medical specialists
7. Offer family planning services and preconception care to women who wish to get pregnant
8. Identify and refer a beneficiary case which LRC is not able to treat through the set internal and external referral processes
9. Respect beneficiary information confidentiality terms in line with set standards and policies
10. Safely keep all midwifery-related beneficiary records and history
11. Liaise with other health and social care professionals in the MMU  to ensure continuity of care
12. Conducting educational lectures on the reproductive health program in community.
13. Write monthly narrative and statistical reports (final and progress) to be submitted to the Project Coordinato
14. Update weekly the Project Coordinator on the project outcomes.