Doula - Full Time - Daylight Hours - Pittsburgh

Essential Responsibilities

• Establish trusting relationships with patients and their families while providing general support and encouragement.
• Provide education, encouragement, and support to expectant and new mothers and families.
• Conduct intake interviews with patients, including enrolling and/or referring patients into various state and county programs. Provide referrals for services to community agencies as appropriate. Must be knowledgeable about community resources appropriate to needs of patients/families.
• Follow-up with patients via phone calls, home visits and visits to other settings where patients can be found.
• Aid patients with completing applications and registration forms.
• Support childbirth preparation and support families in creating a birth plan if desired.
• Conduct eligibility determination, enrollment and follow-up with uninsured patients.
• Provide ongoing follow-up, basic motivational interviewing and goal setting with patients/families. Help patients set personal goals, and attend appointments.
• Provide doula support to clients during labor, childbirth, and immediately postpartum. Work closely with medical provider to help ensure that patients have comprehensive and coordinated care. Follow-up with patients should be continuous from initial identification through closure.
• Work cooperatively with other clinical personnel assigned to the same patient.

Qualifications

• Minimum High School Diploma/GED
• 1-3 years outreach experience or human service experience
• Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
• Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate
• Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
• PREFERRED: DONA (Doula of North America) International Certification