Birth Assistant Job Posting |
Posted 06/13/2023, updated 08/22/2023
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Position: Birth Assistant, shared call schedule
Contact: mothernurtured@gmail.com
Service area: approx one hour radius of Bedford, IN
For more detailed information about this part-time position, please email mothernurtured@gmail.com
Experience required:
Hours:
On call 2 days per week and the occasional weekend, and as backup to the other birth assistants on an as-needed basis
Wages:
Birth assistant fee is a percentage of the total birth fee, which varies according to our sliding scale.
Benefits:
Contact: mothernurtured@gmail.com
Service area: approx one hour radius of Bedford, IN
For more detailed information about this part-time position, please email mothernurtured@gmail.com
Experience required:
- Experience as birth assistant (preferred) or birth doula
- Additional training is provided, as needed
- Maintain client confidentiality at all times
- Set-up, clean-up, and pack-up, as needed
- Assist the midwife throughout labor and immediate postpartum, as directed
- Assist in maintaining thorough records throughout labor and IPP
- Neonatal resuscitation (NRP)... referrals to upcoming trainings available
- BLS (CPR) for Healthcare Professionals... available through Red Cross or American Heart Association
- NRP practice sessions are available at our office using our NeoNatalie resuscitation dolls
- Administer medications under midwife’s direction
- Assist in sterile procedures
- Auscultate fetal heart tones
- Obtain maternal vital signs, such as blood pressure
- Observe universal precautions at all times
Hours:
On call 2 days per week and the occasional weekend, and as backup to the other birth assistants on an as-needed basis
Wages:
Birth assistant fee is a percentage of the total birth fee, which varies according to our sliding scale.
Benefits:
- Access to midwife’s private library including textbooks for required trainings
- Reimbursement for trainings such as NRP and BLS renewal is available to birth assistants who attend 10 births or more with the practice per year. These must be pre-approved by the midwife for budgeting purposes.