Doula – Bilingual in Spanish
Company: DuPage County Health Department (DCHD)
Category: Healthcare
DuPage County
Type: Full Time
The DuPage County Health Department has a full time grant funded opening to work as a doula. In this role you will be responsible for providing comprehensive home visiting and doula services and support to enrolled participants and participants’ families, during the perinatal period. This is a full-time position, with on-call hours that are generally from 8:00 am until 4:30 pm with some evenings and weekends. The strongly preferred ideal candidate will be bilingual in Spanish. They are offering a $500.00 sign on bonus, after six months and $500.00 retention bonus after one year. Some responsibilities are the following:
- Identifies, recruits, and enrolls pregnant clients into the Doula component of the Healthy Families home visiting program.
- Maintains a full caseload of clients per department productivity standards throughout the program year and ensures caseload vacancies are filled; builds and maintains trusting relationships with participant families.
- Meets with clients in their homes and in the community primarily throughout DuPage County and maintains communication with clients via phone, text, and video visits.
- Completes assessments and screenings including a parent interview about the family’s story and screening for depression and substance use.
- Provides referrals to appropriate resources.
- Supports, adapts, or delivers services in a manner that ensures understanding and inclusion of diverse client populations.
- Listens to clients and helps them to know and trust their own bodies and to advocate for themselves.
- Helps families to overcome barriers to accessing quality care including providing linkage to transportation resources and insurance.
- Provides 24/7 on-call coverage and availability to support program needs.
- Provides community outreach; engages in marketing efforts, targeting local hospitals, community resources, and medical offices/staff.
- Provides evidence-based information, education, and resources to prepare families for pregnancy and the birth process, and the postpartum period.
- Facilitates individual and group perinatal education.
- Co-creates goals including a birth plan with the family.
- Attends and provides direct support to the pregnant client, their family, and/or support person(s) throughout the labor and delivery process.
- Partners with home visitor (case manager) in connecting with and supporting the family and provides overlapping home visiting to ensure a seamless transition between doula and home visiting services.
- Provides doula support to the client when they reach 25-28 weeks of pregnancy through 4-8 weeks of postpartum period, providing weekly visits.
- Completes documentation of all activities, contacts with families, and the full birth story.