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Job Description: Roving Auxiliary Nurse Midwife
(RANM)
Major Roles and Responsibilities:
The major role of the RANM will be concentrated on increasing fertility awareness,
promoting, delivering and referring for family planning services, raising awareness around
social norms that inhibit family planning use, and focusing on bridging the service gaps for
marginalized populations in their working area. She will also reach out to influential people
and groups in the wider community to address family planning and relevant social norms,
with the support from local health facility/mothers group/HFOMC and FCHVs. Additionally,
they will provide home level newborn and postnatal care including postnatal family
planning. They will also provide antenatal counselling involving husbands/in-laws and make
referrals for health facility checkups; and nutrition education including measuring upper arm
circumferences (MUAC) of under-five children in their clusters.
Responsibilities:
Planning:
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Prepare and update client tracking profiles for respective areas especially on family
planning, maternal & newborn health (pregnant and postnatal mothers).
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Identify individuals/couples/groups of marginalized populations in the community with
family planning needs and prepare a plan to provide family planning information and
services to them.
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Prepare referral plans for other long acting and permanent methods if couple wish to
use those services and keep the track of referred clients.
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Prepare the list the households for pregnant and postpartum mothers, newborns,
under-five children and migrants of the cluster. Make referral plan for the antenatal
care visits & institutional delivery.
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Prepare monthly work plans in consultation with Health Facility In-charge.
Service delivery and promotions:
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Promotions:
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Identify and mobilize influential people for promotional activities.
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Carry out group activities as per the work plan stated in the Client Logbook
including playing games or other promotional activities.
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Promote awareness regarding Fertility Awareness, Family planning, Postnatal Family
planning, Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) which includes antenatal
care (ANC), postnatal care (PNC) including essential newborn care, healthy timing
and spacing of pregnancy (HTSP), birth preparedness and complication readiness
plan (BPP), institutional delivery and Ama program and nutrition at individual and
community level.
