PERINATAL CARE COORDINATION SPECIALIST, HOUSING PROGRAMS
Full Time
Washington, DC 20032
From $52,000 a year
Posted
Job description
The Perinatal Care Coordination Specialist, Housing Programs, is accountable directly to the Perinatal Services Program Manager; Works as part of an integrated care team to improve maternal and child health outcomes for families receiving services from COH housing programs by ensuring access to timely perinatal health services; Educates participants and staff on issues of perinatal health to support families during pregnancy and infancy; particularly for families who do not receive care or care coordination services from COH. This is a full-time position.
Salary- This position starts at $52k and up based on experience. Indeed provides their own estimated salary calculator and is not affiliated with COH's range.
Highlighted Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supports and closely coordinates perinatal care coordination with the participant’s housing support team and, when appropriate, other maternal child health providers.
- Provides care coordination services to a case load of approximately 40 participants to ensure access to high quality perinatal health and early child health services.
- Conducts thorough assessment on all participating prenatal/postpartum participants utilizing OB Authorization form, current health screening tools (HITS, 4P’s, PHQ-9, Edinburgh, etc.).
- In collaboration with the housing case manager, develops individualized care plans that address risk factors, including but not limited to social needs, barriers to care, reproductive life planning, and food insecurity.
- Completes home visits and/or telephone outreach biweekly, and accompanies participants to Obstetrician visits if necessary, to ensure connection to care.
- Provides health and parenting education to participants in a variety of settings, with an emphasis on increasing understanding of healthy pregnancy and warning signs, nutrition, self-management of care and primary care.
- Recruits program participants from COH’s housing programs and meets initially with at least 80% of eligible clients
- Facilitates biweekly communication with housing case managers, through shared case notes, emails, and in-person case reviews as needed, to ensure effective coordination of care between perinatal and housing services.
- Participates in housing program meetings quarterly and as needed, by site, to share successes, challenges, and changes to the perinatal care referral and intervention process.
- Completes and locks all progress notes within 3 business days after participant visit.
- Documents all participant encounters, including face to face, telephone, and electronic communications, in the medical record within 2-3 business days.
Minimum Qualifications:
- B.A./B.S. in social work or education or equivalent experience required.
- For Bachelor’s of Social Work degree or Master’s of Social Work degree holders, the appropriate DC license must be obtained prior to start date
- Experience providing social services, care coordination or health care education required.
- Experience working with underserved population, including pregnant women experiencing homelessness, preferred
- Experience in clinical setting required, preferably in community health environment
- Ability to travel between COH sites and to participants homes required
- Familiarity with Medical Assistance system and community resources strongly preferred.
- A valid driver’s license and regular access to a car, as well as proof of auto insurance, required.
- All Health Staff must receive the required vaccinations. This includes annual flu and covid vaccines. Medical or religious exemptions may be requested.
At COH, we understand the toll that the Covid-19 pandemic has taken on the workforce, which is why we prioritize the following well-being and work-life balance centered benefits:
- Remote work opportunities are available for many of our roles, promoting a culture of work-life balance
- 8 hour workdays, which include a paid lunch
- 11.5 paid company holidays, 1 personal floating holiday, 15 days of paid vacation (increases to 20 after 3 years of service), and 12 days of paid sick leave on an annual basis
- Annual performance based raises, up to 5% of your annual pay
- Tuition reimbursement, loan repayment for clinicians, licensing reimbursement, and continuing education unit funds for licensed staff
- Many opportunities for internal promotions and transfers across the agency as we continue to grow; we average 30+ promotions each year
- Ongoing internal leadership training for supervisors
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion training and initiatives for all staff
- Ongoing wellbeing activities, culture compact activities, and trauma informed care initiatives
- Medical/Dental/Vision Plans through CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield;
- Life insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance;
- 403(b) Retirement Plan;
- Flexible Spending Accounts for medical and dependent care reimbursable expenses;
- Transportation pre-tax payroll deduction for metro;
- Tuition Reimbursement for graduate studies;
- Employer paid lunch time;
- And much more!
About Us:
Community of Hope is a mission-driven, innovative, and rapidly growing nonprofit. For nearly 40 years, we have provided healthcare, housing, and supportive services for low-income, underserved, and homeless people in Washington DC. As a Federally Qualified Health Center, we provide medical, dental, behavioral health, and care coordination services for the whole family at three locations in DC. Community of Hope also has a strong emphasis on maternal and child health, with a midwifery practice and the only free-standing birth center in DC. In 2020, Community of Hope provided about 28,400 medical visits, 7,000 dental visits, and 10,000 behavioral health visits for about 11,000 patients. Community of Hope is also providing community walk-in COVID testing and COVID vaccines. Community of Hope is also one of the largest providers in DC of housing and support services for families experiencing homelessness. Through providing these programs, we live out our mission to improve health and end family homelessness to make Washington, DC more equitable.
At Community of Hope, we care for families by providing direct services with a focus on prevention, healing, and wellness. We improve lives by building on families’ strengths, honoring their choices, and taking a whole-family, multi-generational approach. We lead and advocate for system change to address the effects of historical and current racial inequities on health outcomes and housing opportunities. We embrace the diversity of our community, welcome all voices and perspectives, and treat everyone with respect, compassion, and integrity. We strive for excellence in all that we do, implement evidence-based practices, measure our outcomes, and use this knowledge to continuously strengthen our work. In 2020, and in 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, we were selected as one of The Washington Post 150 Top Workplaces based on feedback from our staff.
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