Job Description

(total positions: 1, posted on: October 29, 2026)

Summary of Position: The Health Visitor is responsible for providing maternity and neonatal care under the direct supervision of the medical doctor/Ward Supervisor in the Labour Room, Delivery Room, and post-natal ward, as well as early postpartum follow-up for women. The Health Visitor provides routine nursing care for neonates, including initial assessments, treatment after birth, assistance in effective neonatal resuscitation, and routine care in the maternity unit.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct safe deliveries and provide antenatal care, postnatal care, and family planning consultations, ensuring proper patient handling and information dissemination.
• Screen pregnant and lactating women for malnutrition, identifying those in need and initiating nutritional support according to guidelines.
• Collaborate with other Health Visitors and medical doctors in ward organization, ensuring the transfer of relevant information to the next shift team.
• Follow hygiene and safety protocols at all times while managing obstetric complications and assisting in procedures, ensuring cleanliness and proper waste disposal according to specifications.
• Follow up with all newborns and mothers from delivery until discharge, educating them on breastfeeding, vaccination, family planning, and complications from harmful practices.
• Inform patients and their relatives throughout their stay.
• Provide maternity care, treatment, and follow-up according to protocols and hygiene standards, ensuring quality and continuity of care.
• Perform vaginal examinations and accurately report findings, take and record vital signs during labor and postpartum periods, and identify abnormalities to report to supervisors.
• Conduct normal deliveries, including episiotomies under supervision and manage complications such as breech deliveries.
• Provide immediate care for newborns, including resuscitation and routine care.
• Ensure quality triage of patients, monitoring vital signs, medical histories, and patient conditions.
• Educate patients and families on the importance of antenatal care, postnatal care, family planning, breastfeeding, and nutrition, as well as recognizing maternal and neonatal danger signs.

Languages: Proficiency in local languages (Urdu, Pashto) and English is essential.

Note: The position will not be an inpatient role, and no relocation allowance will be given. The selected candidate must relocate themselves to Quetta.

Required Skills