Milk Bank Technician

About Us

Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women is a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility and one of a select few hospitals nationwide that provides women, mothers, and babies with a full continuum of high-quality, expert health care. Offering a full spectrum of maternal and fetal medicine services, including fetal diagnostic procedures and highly specialized fetal surgeries, the Pavilion for Women is connected to Texas Children’s Hospital via a two-story circular sky bridge to enhance patient care by providing rapid access to other pediatric subspecialists. The facility houses three private OB/GYN practices, The Family Fertility Center, The Menopause Center, and The Women’s Place – Center for Reproductive Psychiatry, as well as a recently opened community-based OB/GYN practice in Pearland.

About the Role

We are searching for a Milk Bank Technician to store, prepare, and deliver a mother's breast milk and/or pasteurized donor human milk to hospitalized infants. This role also involves assisting mothers of hospitalized infants with expressing milk for their infants in an appropriate and necessary manner.

Responsibilities

• Accurately weigh, measure, and prepare mother’s own and/or pasteurized donor human milk for infant feeding per physician’s orders.
• Use sanitary techniques according to established procedures to prepare and store mother’s own/pasteurized donor human milk for infant feeding.
• Document and deliver properly labeled human milk feedings to the appropriate patient care area.
• Maintain an inventory log of mother’s own milk storage volume.
• Communicate with parents delivering milk to the Milk Bank regarding the status of mother’s milk inventory and ensure quality standards for transportation and storage of mother’s milk.
• Communicate with co-workers regarding the status of mother’s milk inventory and location where milk is stored.
• Accurately document the number of syringes/bottles, milk volumes, and additives (when applicable) of human milk preparation on the daily Milk Bank Record.
• Provide active membership in hospital work teams/committees that require Milk Bank participation.
• Participate in the review/update of Milk Bank policies, procedures, and workflows, and provide feedback to departmental leadership.
• Participate in quality improvement activities per department and institutional programs.
• Coordinate Milk Bank technician schedule and assignments; adjust the workload of the team as needed.

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• High school graduate, GED, or equivalent.
• 6 months of healthcare-related work experience (an associate degree or a bachelor's degree in nutrition or a healthcare-related field can substitute for 6 months of experience).

Preferred Qualifications

• 1 year of nutrition or breastfeeding education experience.
• Knowledge or experience in a Milk Preparation room or Milk Lab.

Skills

• Knowledge of milk collection, storage, preparation, measurement, and sanitary techniques.