ISBE PI-Lake County Community-Based Doula

Overview

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.

Full-time

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

• 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 monthy groups for clients.

Education:

• Gateways ECE Credential Level 3 required.
• Early Childhood Education Associates degree or related field and/or CDA preferred.

• At least 3 years of supervised paid experience working with children 0-5 and pregnant mothers

• Bilingual in English and Spanish required.
• Must have a valid driver’s license, car insurance, and access to a reliable vehicle.
• Must successfully complete the Doula training, persuing DONA Certification.
• Must be able to work a flexible schedule, this includes evenings and weekends.
• Must be familiar with sensitivity to cultural diversity is 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 for the position, and must plan and implement appropriate family/parent educational activities and function as a member of the program team

• 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.

45.000,00