UNC Medical Center Instructor Women's Health and Childbirth Educator (Per Diem)

About the role

We are seeking passionate and experienced instructors to lead engaging, evidence-based classes to prepare families for pregnancy, birth, and early parenting. Breastfeeding class instructors must hold IBCLC certification. Instructors for all other classes must have childbirth educator or doula certification. Clinical background in labor and delivery, newborn nursery, and postpartum care is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop, organize, and effectively communicate a comprehensive curriculum geared specifically towards preparing women and their partners for labor and post-partum.
• Develop, coordinate, and teach a series of childbirth-related classes covering topics such as nutrition in pregnancy, premature labor prevention, physical and emotional changes in pregnancy, the process of labor and birth, comfort measures for labor, UNC Baby-Friendly Initiative practice, postpartum care, birth control, infant care and feeding, parenting skills, dangers of substance abuse, and smoking cessation.
• If appropriately qualified, a Health Instructor will educate patients and families on topics including, but not limited to, infant and child CPR, sign language for babies, infant massage, prenatal Yoga, child safety and women's life stages.
• Prepare parents to respond safely and efficiently to the perinatal physical and psychosocial processes.
• Assess basic educational needs of patients and adjust teaching tools accordingly.
• Incorporate updated recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Academy of Pediatrics, and other trustworthy women's health organizations as well as integrating policies and procedures of the UNC Healthcare system and NC Women's Hospital.

Requirements

• Education Requirements: High school diploma or GED, Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Licensure/Certification Requirements: Requires certification from a nationally recognized childbirth education organization or certification from a relevant nationally recognized organization (American Heart Association, International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners, etc.), or medical formal training combined with teaching experience.
• Professional Experience Requirements: 1 year of teaching experience preferred.
• Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements: Ability to work independently as well as part of a multidisciplinary team, Excellent communication and customer service skills, Ability to effectively and creatively present health information to patients from a variety of cultural and psychosocial backgrounds, including the use of appropriate web sources and tools, Proficient user of Microsoft Office, electronic mail and trustworthy webpages.

Other Information

Other information: Flexible schedule offered based upon the instructor's availability. Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.