Registered Midwife

Location: Tarauni, Kano
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Maternity/Labour Ward
Reports To: Matron / Head of Nursing Services

Job Summary

• The Registered Midwife is responsible for providing safe, evidence-based, compassionate, and high-quality care to women during pregnancy, labour, childbirth, and the postnatal period.
• The Midwife also provides essential newborn care, health education, family planning counselling, and supports the multidisciplinary healthcare team in promoting maternal and child health.

Key Responsibilities
Antenatal Care:

• Conduct comprehensive antenatal assessments.
• Monitor maternal and fetal wellbeing.
• Identify high-risk pregnancies and promptly refer to the appropriate clinician.
• Provide antenatal health education on nutrition, birth preparedness, breastfeeding, danger signs, and newborn care.
• Administer prescribed medications and immunizations.

Labour and Delivery:

• Admit and assess women in labour.
• Monitor labour using the partograph.
• Conduct normal vaginal deliveries within the scope of practice.
• Recognize complications early and promptly notify the obstetrician.
• Assist in instrumental and Caesarean deliveries when required.
• Perform neonatal resuscitation where necessary.
• Ensure infection prevention and control measures are strictly followed.

Postnatal Care:

• Monitor mothers during the immediate postpartum period.
• Assess uterine involution, bleeding, pain, and recovery.
• Promote and support exclusive breastfeeding.
• Educate mothers on newborn care, hygiene, nutrition, family planning, and postnatal danger signs.
• Identify postpartum complications and initiate appropriate referrals.

Newborn Care:

• Perform immediate newborn assessment.
• Monitor newborn growth and wellbeing.
• Administer routine newborn medications and immunizations according to hospital protocols.
• Maintain accurate newborn documentation.
• Educate mothers on infant feeding, immunization schedules, and newborn danger signs.

Emergency Care:

• Respond promptly to obstetric emergencies.
• Participate in neonatal resuscitation.
• Assist in the management of postpartum haemorrhage, eclampsia, obstructed labour, and other obstetric emergencies.
• Maintain readiness of emergency equipment and medications.

Patient Education:

• Provide counselling on:
  • Pregnancy care
  • Family planning
  • Breastfeeding
  • Nutrition
  • Personal hygiene
  • Prevention of sexually transmitted infections
  • Child immunization
• Encourage attendance at antenatal and postnatal clinics.

Documentation:

• Maintain accurate, timely, and confidential patient records.
• Complete labour, delivery, postnatal, and newborn documentation.
• Report incidents and adverse events according to hospital policy.

Infection Prevention and Quality Assurance:

• Adhere to infection prevention and control guidelines.
• Ensure proper sterilization of equipment.
• Participate in quality improvement activities and maternal death reviews.
• Comply with hospital safety standards and regulatory requirements.

Teamwork:

• Collaborate effectively with obstetricians, paediatricians, anaesthetists, nurses, laboratory personnel, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals.
• Participate in ward rounds, clinical meetings, and multidisciplinary case reviews.
• Mentor junior staff and student midwives where assigned.

Professional Development:

• Maintain current registration and licence.
• Participate in continuing professional development (CPD).
• Keep up to date with evidence-based midwifery practices.
• Comply with the Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses and Midwives.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife (RM).
• Current practising licence issued by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN).
• Additional certification in Basic Life Support (BLS) and Neonatal Resuscitation is an advantage.

Experience:

• Minimum of 1- 2 years of post-qualification clinical experience is preferred.
• Experience in a secondary or tertiary healthcare facility is an added advantage.

Required Skills:

• Excellent clinical and midwifery skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to remain calm during emergencies.
• Sound clinical judgement and decision-making.
• Compassionate and patient-centred approach.
• Good documentation and record-keeping skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Basic computer literacy.

Personal Attributes:

• Integrity and professionalism.
• Compassion and empathy.
• Emotional resilience.
• Attention to detail.
• Respect for patient confidentiality.
• Strong ethical standards.
• Good time management and organizational skills.

Application Closing Date
31st August, 2026.

Interested and qualified candidates should send their application and copies of credentials to: hr.standardspecialisthospital@gmail.com using using the job title as the subject of the mail.