Maternal and Perinatal Mortality are Obstetric and neonatal tragedies worldwide. Of the global Maternal Mortality occurrences, the vast majority occur in low-resource settings and Nigeria accounts for nearly 20% of the global death.
The lifetime risk of dying in Nigeria is 1 in 22 during pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum period compared to 1 in 4,900 in most developed countries. The causes of maternal mortality include Pre-eclampsia /Eclampsia (PEE), obstructed labor, postpartum hemorrhage, puerperal sepsis and abortion complications.
These causes are treatable and preventable when labour is supervised by Skilled Birth Attendants (SBAs).
Perinatal morbidity and mortality are closely related to events during pregnancy and labor.
The high rate in Nigeria is a result of poor maternal health, sub-optimal care during pregnancy and childbirth, and lack of newborn care.
The major causes of newborn deaths are birth asphyxia, neonatal sepsis and prematurity. Universal access to Comprehensive Emergency Obstetrics and Neonatal Care (CEmONC) services is one of the strategies that can reduce these deaths and sufferings along with the ten core signal functions of the services.
Job Responsibilities
- Each consultant will participate in a virtual one-day skills standardization and pretraining planning meeting to be organize by Jhpiego.
- Conduct an on-site capacity building of an average of 8 healthcare care workers, which would include doctors, nurses and midwives.
- Conduct follow up mentoring of the trained healthcare workers to strengthen their confidence and competence in using the newly acquired knowledge and skills.
- Conduct pre- and post-test assessment for each of the modules of the training package.
- Compile and submit a comprehensive report of the training within 5 working days after completion of the training.
- Participate in a one day post-training debrief meeting with key stakeholders in the state.
Deliverables
- Detailed and analysed pre- and post- training scores for each of the trainee for each module of the training package.
- Detail report of the training to be submitted within 5 working days of completion of the training.
Required Qualifications
- Registered and practicing anaesthesiologist with at least 5 years post-qualification working experience.
- Evidence of previous and ongoing work delivering CEmONC services.
- Evidence of previous experience conducting training on safe blood transfusion component of CEmONC or a similar training especially within the last 24 months or current/recent faculty member/trainer in an obstetric and/or anaesthesiology residency or nurse anaesthetist training program
- Evidence of having up-to-date annual practicing license with Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.
- Evidence of strong coaching, mentoring and facilitation skills
- Evidence of strong analytical and communication skills.
- Travel: Ability to travel _70%, particularly to Facilities in the work location.
- Duration of Consultancy: Maximum of 12 (twelve) non-consecutive working days (unless otherwise extended by Jhpiego) as follows:
- On-site training – 4 days
- Mentoring – 6 days
- Report writing – 2 days.
How to apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply below