Job description
Location: Chicago, IL 60632
Date Posted: 05/15/2023
Category: Home Bound Services
Education: HS Graduate/GED
Our client is seeking certified community doulas for various territories: Lake County, Near west suburbs to Schiller Park, and Homewood and south suburbs.
The key responsibility of this role is to provide pre-birth, birth, and postpartum doula services to ISBE Prevention Initiative participants, including:
Other responsibilities include:
Client's Required Skills and Attributes
Client Requirements
Education: High School Diploma / GED
Gateways ECE Credential Level 1 required (will train)
Early Childhood Education Associates degree or related field and/or CDA preferred.
Experience: At least 3 years of supervised paid experience working with children 0-5 and pregnant mothers
Other Requirements:
Title: Certified Doulas
Class: Case Management
Work Type: TEMPORARY
Ref. No.: 1261268-6
BC: #DTG105
Company: Delta-T Group Illinois, Inc.
Contract Contact: Contract Submit Edu IL
Office Email: ILContracts@deltatg.com
Office Phone: 800-500-8007
Office Address: 800 Enterprise Drive, Suite 131, Oak Brook, IL 60523
About Us: Each Delta-T Group office is separately incorporated. Delta-T Group is a referral service for self-employed independent contractors seeking behavioral healthcare education and social service supplemental marketplace opportunities. Delta-T cannot guarantee any number or duration of referrals or opportunities as a result of your registration. When and if opportunities become available, you may accept or decline such referrals at your sole discretion.
Date Posted: 05/15/2023
Category: Home Bound Services
Education: HS Graduate/GED
Our client is seeking certified community doulas for various territories: Lake County, Near west suburbs to Schiller Park, and Homewood and south suburbs.
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.
Client's Required Skills and Attributes
- Ability to provide a calm and nurturing presence for mothers
- Ability to provide nonjudgmental conversation and support
- Must have extensive knowledge of the communities served
- Ability to incorporate the unique cultural, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds of families in the program and community
Client Requirements
Education: High School Diploma / GED
Gateways ECE Credential Level 1 required (will train)
Early Childhood Education Associates degree or related field and/or CDA preferred.
Experience: At least 3 years of supervised paid experience working with children 0-5 and pregnant mothers
Other Requirements:
- Bilingual in English and Spanish is a plus.
- Must have a valid driver’s license, car insurance, and access to a reliable vehicle.
- Must successfully complete the Doula (DONA) training, pre and post birth.
- Must successfully complete the PAT (Parents as Teachers) training.
- 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
- STATE CRIMINAL RECORDS CHECK
- STATE CHILD ABUSE CLEARANCE
Title: Certified Doulas
Class: Case Management
Work Type: TEMPORARY
Ref. No.: 1261268-6
BC: #DTG105
Company: Delta-T Group Illinois, Inc.
Contract Contact: Contract Submit Edu IL
Office Email: ILContracts@deltatg.com
Office Phone: 800-500-8007
Office Address: 800 Enterprise Drive, Suite 131, Oak Brook, IL 60523
About Us: Each Delta-T Group office is separately incorporated. Delta-T Group is a referral service for self-employed independent contractors seeking behavioral healthcare education and social service supplemental marketplace opportunities. Delta-T cannot guarantee any number or duration of referrals or opportunities as a result of your registration. When and if opportunities become available, you may accept or decline such referrals at your sole discretion.
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