Program Coordinator Midwife -Perinatal Services - Sharp Grossmont Hospital - FT - Days

Hours

Shift Start Time

8 AM

Shift End Time

4:30 PM

Additional Shift Information

Weekend Requirements

No Weekends

On-Call Required

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum)

$71.822 - $92.673 - $113.525

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

What You Will Do

Initiate a full-scope collaborative midwifery program. Duties to include the maintenance, guidance, and supervision of the program, as well as independently provide full scope midwifery care to childbearing women utilizing the basic philosophical tenets of midwife-led care.

Required Qualifications

Master's Degree in Nursing Midwifery Specialty3 Years full scope midwifery experience1 Year hospital-based delivery experienceCalifornia Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered NursingAHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart AssociationCalifornia Nurse-Midwife Certificate - CA Board of Registered NursingCertified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) - American Midwifery Certification Board, Inc. (AMCB)California Nurse Midwife Furnishing Number (NMF) - CA Board of Registered NursingNeonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) - Various-Employee provides certificate.DEA Controlled Substance Registration - U.S. Department of JusticeNational Provider Identifier (NPI) - U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Preferred Qualifications

Moderate-risk ante-partum experienceClinical and/or management leadership experience.Out-of-hospital delivery experience

Other Qualification Requirements

Out of country education equivalence will be met by obtaining a California Nurse Midwife Certificate accompanied by a graduate degree in healthcare/education.

Essential Functions

Adhere to Policies and Procedures Completion of safety modules by established target date. Initiates and/or participates in one or more safety related promotional or educational activities. No reports of compromised outcomes or failure to meet the intent of commonly accepted practice.Communication and teamwork

Employee will consistently communicate in a positive and timely manner with patients, visitors, staff members, and physicians; handling problems in a professional and proactive manner; demonstrate teamwork, cooperation and responsiveness. Measurement may include (but may not be limited to) feedback from: collaborating/consulting physician, the Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Director of Women and Infant Services, co-workers and patients.

Employee exhibits effective communication strategies in an effort to create positive first impressions with individuals as well as groups of patients, family, significant-others, and members of the Healthcare team. Employee demonstrates customer service by conducting self on the job in a professional manner, extending courtesy, consideration and cooperation to patients, visitors and other employees.

Ensures positive activities/interactions with other departments and coworkers by providing appropriate, adequate and accurate information. Listens to ideas, thoughts and feelings of others and responds with appropriate information to ensure customer satisfaction.

Identifies patient and department relation problems and utilizes professional steps of problem solving to resolve identified issues. Focuses on problem resolution priorities and makes recommendations to resolve.

Demonstrates teamwork, cooperation, and responsiveness; Assists other health care workers with completion of work responsibilities. Perceived by other health care workers as approachable in participating (e.g. assisting, guiding and taking initiative) in the completion of duties.

Outcome measurements

Participates in processes to improve clinic outcomes, patient satisfaction and clinic efficiency. Measurement may include (but may not be limited to) feedback from: the collaborating/consulting physician, the Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Director of Women and Infant Services, co-workers and patients.

Reviews policies and procedures and revises guidelines of care as needed. Presents high-risk cases to consulting/collaborating physician as needed for review for plan of care (prospective). Reviews selected charts with consulting/collaborating physician for quality review (retrospective).

Preceptor

Provides individual and/or group experiences to various health professional students in the clinic/hospital setting by acting as preceptor. Measurement may include (but may not be limited to) feedback from: the collaborating/consulting physician, the Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Director of Women and Infant Services, Community Clinic Directors, co-workers and patients. Participates in and provides a minimum of two in-service programs.

Clinical Practice

Provides full scope midwifery care in the outpatient and inpatient settings to include but not limited to primary care, ante-partum, intra-partum (including deliveries), postpartum and family planning. Measurement may include (but may not be limited to) trended quality report data, direct patient information and feedback from the collaborating/consulting physician, Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine, and the Director of Women and Infant Services. Assumes responsibility for implementation and direction on referrals/ consultation. Coordinate patient care between medical and educational components as needed.

Training and education

Attend and participate in CPSP / PNC / APCC / OB Steering / OB Supervisory and Community Clinic meetings to facilitate coordination of care between the medical and education components.

Assist in development of full scope midwifery service / continuance of programs within Grossmont Hospital for Women and Newborns.

Participates in continuing education /continuing competency programs.

Participates in professional organization(s).

Provide community education services as necessary.

Participates in community organization as representative of hospital.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

Meets ACNM core competencies for basic midwifery practice, the standards for the practice of midwifery, the philosophy of ACNM and their Code of Ethics.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.