Midwife

Midwife duties and responsibilities

Midwives have a wide range of duties that include education, counseling, and medical care. Their exact duties may differ depending on their work environment and position. For instance, a Midwife who focuses on developing educational programs will have different duties from another who forms part of a midwifery team at an NHS hospital. In general, their main duties and responsibilities include:

• Providing complete prenatal care, including screening tests and also postnatal visits for up to 10 days
• Identifying high-risk pregnancies and referring such patients to the relevant medical specialists
• Doing routine checkups, such as collecting patients’ samples and taking their blood pressure and temperature
• Liaising with agencies and other health and social care professionals to ensure that mothers and babies receive continued postnatal support
• Providing support and counseling to mothers following events like miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal abnormality
• Providing training and guidance for junior colleagues
• Running pregnancy and parenting classes and workshops
• Overseeing and monitoring the labor process and advising mothers on their options to manage pain

Responsibilities:

• Three-OB/GYN office days/week.
• Equal weekday call coverage which includes a 1:5 weekend call schedule.
• First assist for cesarean sections.