Job Description
Full-time
Description
SGA provides a wide range of social services in some of Chicagoland’s most challenged and consistently underserved communities, and creates long-term and community-wide change.
Formal Doula certification training will be provided at no cost to the employee for those hired in the position.
- The key responsibility of this role is to provide pre-birth, birth, and postpartum doula services to ISBE Prevention Initiative participants, including:
- Culturally responsive pregnancy and childbirth education
- Linkages to health care and social services, providing close coordination between participants and medical personnel
- Screens and referrals for substance abuse and postpartum depression treatment as indicated
- Labor coaching
- Breastfeeding education and counseling
- Providing mothers with emotional, physical, and moral support, especially when family members are not available
- Providing mothers with practical support and advice after childbirth, like organizing the nursery, running errands, and assisting with breastfeeding and meal preparation
- Other responsibilities include:
- Recruits and maintains a caseload of 10 to 12 pregnant women
- Provides weekly personal home visits to clients
- Keeps up to date on childbirth support, birthing techniques, and pre/post-natal care by conducting research, networking with other doulas and mothers, and attending workshops and lectures
- Links participants with resources based on client’s need
- Maintains knowledge of the agency’s and program’s policies and procedures
- Plans and implements appropriate home-based activities
- Maintains and preserves a confidential family file
- Records all data required in a timely matter to generate reports on services
- Works collaboratively with the other community-based doulas, home visitors, and supervisors.
- Implement weekly visits with each participant, utilizing the PAT curriculum
- Attend the participant's birth
- Begins at the third trimester of pregnancy and continues for 8 weeks after the child is born.
- Develop, organize and facilitate monthly prenatal groups
- Provide screening for perinatal and postpartum depression
Requirements
- Education:
- BA in Home-Based related field
- Preferred be certified by Doulas of North America (DONA).
- Clinical experience (ex. registered nurses, midwives, or other professionals who have some training in the medical aspects of pregnancy and childbirth).
- Gateways ECE Credential
- Experience:
- At least 3 years of supervised paid experience working with children 0-5 and pregnant mothers
- Other Requirements:
- Bilingual in English and Spanish required.
- Must have a valid driver’s license, car insurance, and access to a reliable vehicle.
- Must be able to work a flexible schedule, which includes evenings and weekends.
- Must be familiar with the sensitivity to cultural diversity required.
- Ability to communicate and cooperate with diverse families, various professionals, and community groups.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of clients, partners or employees or the organization.
- Must demonstrate the ability to establish helping relationships with families of varying educational, experiential, and socio-economic backgrounds and handle emergency and crisis situations.
- Doula must receive training in education, nutrition, and other topics relevant to the position, and must plan and implement appropriate family/parent educational activities and function as a member of the program team
- Physical Requirements
- Must be able to remain stationary 50% of the time.
- Must be able to frequently move inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
- Must be able to transport oneself to and from home visits and hospitals.
- Must be able to ascend/descend stairs.
- Constantly positions oneself to assist clients as needed.
- Frequently moves office and program materials.
- At times may be required to lift up to 25 lbs. for various classrooms and event’s needs.
- At times may be required to transport donations/items to clients based on need.
- Frequently moves in outdoor weather conditions.
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