Job description
The Community-Based Doula will provide outreach services, prenatal education activities, and assist the family in preparing for childbirth through both home visiting and group-based services. As the Doula, you will advocate for the participant families by providing emotional support, parental education, labor and delivery guidance and post-partum care.
Core Responsibilities:
- Establishes trusting and nurturing relationships with program participants and their families.
- Maintains regular contact with participants in their home to provide information, education and resources that will prepare the parent and her family for the birth process and postpartum.
- Attends and supports the laboring mother and their family or support person(s).
- Assists families in initiating and strengthening the parent-child relationship.
- Improves family support systems by providing information about community networking and advocacy.
- Assists identified families in establishing goals and creating a plan for the accomplishment of those goals, including the collaborative development of a birth plan.
- Assesses family functioning for safety and ability of family to care for children; determines appropriate interventions.
- Develops and facilitates pre and postnatal education and parent support groups.
- Maintains positive working relationships with all members of the agency team, referring agencies, and other community resources.
- Assists with community outreach efforts, targeting local hospitals and medical staff.
- Participates in the on-call system, as required by program, including being present for after hours and weekend births.
- Bills Medicaid according to the program guidelines.
- Completes accurate documentation and maintenance of files, including timely submission of Medicaid notes as required by the funder