Doula Navigator / Community Doula - Bilingual

Role Responsibilities

• Deliver Care Management to Meet Patient Needs
• Conduct outreach, check-ins, and comprehensive assessments to identify and meet patient needs via phone calls, SMS, video calls, or in-person encounters (based on patient preference)
• Assist patients with appointment setting, office visits, social services application, among other requests
• Coordinate Care Services and Referrals to Completion
• Advocate for patient needs by coordinating with health plans, service providers, multi-disciplinary care teams to drive services to completion
• Communicate to Empower Patient Learning
• Utilize evidence-based practices like motivational interviewing, trauma-informed care, and harm reduction to engage with and communicate information to patients towards positive habit change
• Utilize Technology to Document, Track, and Improve Services
• Utilize required care management portals for all care coordination and other services provided in a timely manner
• Maintain patient caseload targets and prioritize services according to intensity, need, and required follow-up

Requirements

• 1-2 years of experience as a Community Health Worker, Community Doula, Case/Care Manager, Social Worker
• Must be a certified birth doula prior to employment, or commit to completing Malama-sponsored doula training (training, attend 3 births, complete CPR training, etc) after onboarding and enroll in DHCS Medicaid
• Reliable and responsive to text and calls
• Adaptable and Excited to learn new technology - You are comfortable using Google Workspace (Sheets, Docs, Drive), Notion, Slack, Zoom, and want to learn more
• A people's person and a team player - One of our key values is Be the Bridge. You are positive and empathetic serving members/clients and open and honest when providing internal feedback for improvement

Qualifications

• Mission-driven, Impact-oriented - You are passionate about health, technology, and Malama's mission to improve maternal health outcomes and close equity gaps
• You are fluent in English (written and verbal) and bilingual in Spanish / Vietnamese / Tagalog / Cantonese / Dari / Haitian Creole

Skills

• Fluent in English (written and verbal)
• Bilingual in Spanish / Vietnamese / Tagalog / Cantonese / Dari / Haitian Creole

Benefits

• $25-$30 per hour starting rate
• Flexible work hours to suit your needs
• Opportunity to contribute to a fast-growing healthcare technology startup
• Training and educational opportunities

Pay

• $25-$30 per hour starting rate

Schedule

• Flexible work hours to suit your needs