Registered Midwife-Naoero Deployment

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Independently manage normal labour and conduct spontaneous vaginal deliveries within authorized scope of practice.
• Provide antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal, and newborn care.
• Monitor maternal vital signs, fetal heart rate, and labour progress, including CTG monitoring and interpretation.
• Recognize complications and initiate emergency measures, including timely escalation or referral.
• Respond to postpartum haemorrhage, eclampsia, fetal distress, and other obstetric emergencies.
• Provide immediate newborn care and support neonatal resuscitation when required.
• Educate mothers on breastfeeding, newborn care, and postnatal recovery.
• Maintain clinical documentation and follow infection prevention and patient safety protocols.
• Collaborate with doctors and other healthcare professionals to support safe maternal and newborn outcomes.

Requirements

• Recognized qualification in Midwifery.
• Minimum 3–5 years of hands-on experience in a maternity hospital or labour and delivery unit.
• Proven experience independently conducting normal vaginal deliveries is essential.
• Strong knowledge of obstetric emergencies and maternal and newborn care.
• Experience in CTG monitoring, labour assessment, and postpartum haemorrhage management.
• Current professional registration and eligibility to meet applicable licensing requirements.
• BLS and neonatal resuscitation training are preferred.
• Ability to work independently, make sound clinical decisions, remain calm under pressure, and communicate effectively.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries, free housing and meals, 30 days of paid annual leave, and round-trip airfare.
• The employer describes the role as an opportunity to work in a unique island setting.

Workplace

• Work location is in person at Naoero Medical Centre in Naoero.