Lead Certified Midwife (CM/ CNM)

About the role

We are looking for a Lead Midwife to steer our growing maternity care practice in our new clinic coming to Yonkers, NY in early 2027. We’re searching for someone who is thoughtful and passionate about delivering patient-centric, judgment-free care, and is excited to help build and guide a dynamic and innovative team. In addition to helping to shape Oula's clinical model, you will also be responsible for delivering full-spectrum perinatal care. This is the perfect opportunity for a CNM/CM that is excited to expand their skill set and help define and build a new best-in-class maternity care experience.

Responsibilities

• Leads a team of midwives.
• Hosts regular team meetings to build esprit de corps & facilitate communication.
• Is open to difficult conversations.
• Works closely with the clinical operations managers, lead midwife team and Director of Midwifery to ensure close collaboration between Oula sites/teams.
• Collaborates with clinical operations to center team function and productivity – understands and shares clinic and people based metrics and provides ongoing feedback to direct reports in addition to at time of performance reviews.
• Collaborates with people operations to address staff satisfaction and retention - sets up bi-directional communication systems with staff midwifery team to solicit feedback and provides ongoing information.
• Solicits and provides midwifery input on process improvements, service roll outs and company initiatives to Director of Midwifery.
• Acts as the primary point of contact for routine clinical and operational questions raised by staff midwife team.
• Supports recruitment, training, onboarding of excellent midwives.
• Leads and participates in regular meetings related to Clinical Care, Clinical Operations, Midwifery Leadership, and Quality/Safety as required.
• Manage the communication feedback loop between leadership and midwives, starting with collecting inputs, cross-functional problem