Job Description

Typical duties include:

• examining and monitoring pregnant women
• assessing care requirements and writing care plans
• undertaking antenatal care
• carrying out screening tests
• providing information, emotional support and reassurance to women and their partners
• taking patient samples, pulses, temperatures and blood pressures
• caring for and assisting women in labour
• monitoring and administering medication, injections and intravenous infusions during labour
• monitoring the foetus during labour
• advising about and supporting parents in the daily care of their newborn babies
• helping parents to cope with miscarriage, termination, stillbirth and neonatal death
• writing records
• tutoring student midwives
• identifying high-risk pregnancies

Midwives may work on a rotation and be on call to provide care on a 24-hour basis.

Required Skills or Experience

Must have at least 3 years practical experience on the job