PART TIME NURSE/ MIDWIFE

Responsibilities

• Reviews and contributes to existing maternal programme materials.
• Develops and implements additional health education programs designed to increase awareness and knowledge to patients planning to give birth.
• Keeps up-to-date on changes in labour and delivery technology to keep program material current.
• Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Provides information about the physiology, psychology, and sociology of pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and early parenthood.
• Demonstrates skills to assist women and their support persons to cope with pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and early parenthood; and encourages communication between the pregnant woman and other members of her health care circle.
• A facilitator who helps families better understand and value the experience of the transition to parenthood.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Provides general support to visitors/clients.
• Administers telephonic health care to selected patients/clients.

Functions

• Candidate must be able to apply clinical knowledge in advising pregnant females
• Candidate must be proficient in clinically training pregnant females
• Candidate will meet the required training programme and input further knowledge.
• Candidate is eloquent in English speaking and has excellent presentation skills
• Understands her viewership/clients with sensitivity
• Candidate has a soft sense of humour and shows compassion
• Candidate to telephonically advise and check on pregnant females
• Candidate responsible for updating the system on client progress. Training on system will be provided.
• Answer the client phone line and answer queries.
• Candidate must be able to report with effectiveness and efficiency.

Skills/ Competencies

• Must be a Botswana Citizen/permanent resident
• Diploma or Degree in Nursing/Midwifery with proven midwifery/childbirth experience.

And the successful candidate will need to supply:

• Certified Copies of Professional Certificates. (Undergraduate/ Post graduate) & CM2.
• Certified Copy of Registration Certificate from Ministry of Health/BHPC/Botswana Medical Council
• Certified Copy of Current registration card from Botswana Health Professions Council (BHPC) (blue card)
• Candidate has over 30 hours birth experience in-hospital or out-hospital (proven)
• Self-driven, punctual, reliable, well organised and highly presentable. Must have good administrative skills and excellent presentation skills
• Candidate must be computer literate in all Microsoft Programmes Must be able to travel and have own transport.
• Language: English and Setswana

Working hours

• Two days per week for 5 hours each day. (We are negotiable on which days the candidate may request but once set, must be kept).
• One weekend per month from Friday 5pm until 22h00 and Saturday from 07h00 until 18h30 and then alternated every second month to 1 evening per week for 4 weeks. (18h30 to 21h00). Then repeated and so on.
• The above equates to approximately 60 -65 (maximum) hours per month.

Renumeration

• A 6 month probation period shall apply.
• A contract is offered for 1 year. Based on the company & staff performance, a permanent offer may be made with greater benefits.
• Candidate is subject to signing a Declaration of Secrecy.
• The salary offered is as follows:
  • In the first 6 months, the salary is P9,600.
  • Thereafter a performance review shall be performed and the salary may be increased to P11,000 per month.
• There are no other company benefits applicable.

Closing date and application instructions

Please forward your application to deryse@serurubele.biz