Family Birthing Services Assistant
About the role
Family Birthing Services Assistant – Family Birthing Department – PRN. Works in a 14‑bed LDRP unit with a 14‑bed overflow/postpartum unit, serving OB/GYN and CNM providers. Provides family‑centered maternity and newborn care for approximately 1,800 births annually in a Level II NICU staffed with Lactation Consultants. Neonatal Resuscitation Program training is provided. Position is PRN requiring a minimum of 24 hours off shift per 6‑week schedule, with 12‑hour day, evening, and night shifts, and weekend/holiday work as needed. Shift and weekend differential eligibility applies. The FBS Technician reports to the Nurse Manager, Clinical Manager, or a registered nurse, assists during vaginal deliveries, handles and cleans equipment, maintains records, monitors adult and newborn patients, keeps rooms prepared, and performs light clerical duties.
Responsibilities
- Prepares and maintains operative, labor and delivery and patient procedure rooms for use per unit readiness guidelines.
- Assists the registered nurse with sterile open and set‑up of delivery table, maintaining integrity of sterile field during delivery, adding instruments or supply to sterile field as directed by the registered nurse or obstetric provider, and basic patient care needs during clean‑up after delivery.
- Obtains maternal vital signs, point of care testing, and assists the patient with personal care needs under the direction of the registered nurse.
- Assists the registered nurse with patient positioning, repositioning and prep during the intrapartum and post‑partum period.
- Assists the obstetric provider with preparation of sterile field for circum