Job Description
Job Description Summary This position is assigned to the Women’s Reproductive Behavioral Health (WRBH) Division of MUSC. Peer Recovery Doulas provide non-clinical services intended to aid pregnant and postpartum patients in establishing recovery from substance use disorders. The individual will work as part of the WRBH team as a community health worker to provide peer support and recovery-focused prenatal, labor and postpartum support for perinatal women and their babies. This Peer Recovery Doula position will primarily provide hospital-based support to patients presenting for delivery at Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital, participating as an (non-clinical) integral member of multidisciplinary care team, the Perinatal Opioid Collaborative, that coordinates specialized care and support for pregnant patients with perinatal opioid use disorder.
The candidate will provide prenatal education, labor and delivery support and postpartum follow up, as well as facilitate coordination, promote successful linkage to perinatal mental health and substance use treatment and provide a warm hand-off to community resources and treatment providers. The Peer Recovery Doula will also serve as a patient advocate for individuals they are serving and integrate with hospital staff to reduce stigma. While establishing a trusting relationship with mothers, the candidate will promote healthy pregnancies, breastfeeding, and parent-infant attachment.
This role is research grant funded
Nature and Scope: The community-based doula is an integral member of the overall ReBIRTHed program (housed within WRBH Division at MUSC). The doula is a community health worker from the same community as the targeted population. A Peer Recovery Doula has lived experience of perinatal substance use disorder and is dual certified as a peer support specialist and community doula.She will provide culturally sensitive support and serve as a role model for individuals with perinatal substance use disorders.
Entity Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC - Univ)
Worker Type Employee
Worker Sub-Type Research Grant
Cost Center CC001043 COM PSYCH Brain & Women's Health CC
Pay Rate Type Hourly
Pay Grade University-05
Pay Range 39,764.00 - 56,670.00 - 73,576.000
Scheduled Weekly Hours 20
Work Shift Job Description FLSA: Hourly/Non-exempt
FTE: 50%
Job Duties 35% - Provide Peer Recovery Doula services to patients with perinatal opioid use disorder receiving prenatal care at MUSC Women’s Health and/or presenting for delivery at Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital. To fulfill these duties, the Peer Recovery Doula is expected to:
- Work closely with the clinical and research teams to establish hospital-based referral pathways for doula support
- Participate in monthly Perinatal Opioid Collaborative meetings and patient-facing shared-decision making appointments.
- Respond to referrals and initiate contact as early in pregnancy as possible
- Visit pregnant and parenting women in their homes and other settings on a regular schedule throughout pregnancy and up to 12 months after delivery, as necessary.
- Offer recovery-focused prenatal education. Prepare individual for hospital labor and delivery experiences and for new parenting role. Work with the individual to identify community support services, facilitate and coordinate successful linkage to resources. The individual will assist patients and family members with understanding how to utilize community services and help the individual to problem solve. Peer Recovery Doula may provide warm hand-off to community providers.
- Attend and support the mother and family through labor and delivery and the few hours after delivery
- Visiting mother-baby pair within 24 hours of discharge
- Maintaining postpartum contact for 6-12 months to support breastfeeding, guide infant care, and providing continued emotional support.
- The peer recovery doula will also advocate and monitor mother/infant dyad needs and develop of relationships with community partners including medical care providers.
20% - Participate as a (non-clinical) member of multidisciplinary care team, the Perinatal Opioid Collaborative (POC), that coordinates specialized care and support for pregnant patients with perinatal opioid use disorder. The Peer Recovery Doula will serve as liaison between community and clinical programs. Facilitate patient engagement in mental health, substance use and social services through motivational interviewing technique and continued follow-up. Assist members of the care team in gathering and maintaining up to date patient and family recovery resources. This requires knowledge of and comfortability with substance use disorder populations, community health workers, psychiatry, obstetrics, addiction medicine and community resources at the local and state level
Required 20% - Complete required documentation. Support clinical and research team with outreach. To fulfill these duties, the Peer Recovery Doula is expected to:
- Work alongside the research team to assist in data collection.
Participate in ongoing reflective supervision with Doula Mentor
10% - Collaborate and participate in multidisciplinary rounds. This includes working closely with the POC, as well as primary teams of different disciplines, social workers and other hospital staff to give insight and perspective into patient cases and psychosocial dynamics that influence patient care.
10% - Serve as a patient advocate to reduce the stigma of perinatal substance use disorders. The individual will act as a resource to other clinical team members on recovery support. This includes assisting in targeted outreach and relationship building with community partners, particularly those that serve vulnerable and under-resourced populations.
5% - Attend required staff and partner meetings
Preferred Training and Experience Requirements: The candidate must be actively engaged in his/her own recovery program with a minimum of three years demonstrated personal recovery and sustained abstinence from alcohol and/or drug use. The candidate must have prior experience in a Peer Support role. Individual must have completed 1) the SC course for Certified Peer Support Specialists and 2) Certified as a Doula through one of the following training organizations: Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association, DONA International, HealthConnect One, International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA), Birthworks or Birth Arts International. The applicant should demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to relate to patients and health professionals, as well as an ability to develop professional working relationships with partner agencies. The candidate must possess excellent listening, verbal, and written communication skills, as well as good problem-solving skills. Basic computer skills are required. The ability to juggle many tasks and the ability to satisfy both travel requirements and on-call requirements is needed. Comfort going into people’s homes and experience working with substance use disorders and pregnant mothers is expected.
Additional Job Description Minimum Requirements: A bachelor's degree and one year relevant program experience. Physical Requirements: (Note: The following descriptions are applicable to this section: Continuous - 6-8 hours per shift; Frequent - 2-6 hours per shift; Infrequent - 0-2 hours per shift) Ability to perform job functions in an upright position. (Frequent) Ability to perform job functions in a seated position. (Frequent) Ability to perform job functions while walking/mobile. (Frequent) Ability to work indoors. (Continuous) Ability to work outdoors in all weather and temperature extremes. (Infrequent) Ability to work in confined/cramped spaces. (Infrequent) Ability to perform job functions from kneeling positions. (Infrequent) Ability to squat and perform job functions. (Infrequent) Ability to perform 'pinching' operations. (Infrequent) Ability to fully use both hands/arms. (Frequent) Ability to perform repetitive motions with hands/wrists/elbows and shoulders. (Frequent) Ability to reach in all directions. (Frequent) Possess good finger dexterity. (Continuous) Ability to maintain tactile sensory functions. (Continuous) Ability to lift and carry 15 lbs., unassisted. (Infrequent) Ability to lower objects, up to 15 lbs., from height of 36 inches to floor level, unassisted. (Infrequent) Ability to push/pull objects, up to 15 lbs., unassisted. (Infrequent) Ability to maintain 20/40 vision, corrected, in one eye or with both eyes. (Continuous) Ability to see and recognize objects close at hand. (Frequent) Ability to see and recognize objects at a distance. (Frequent) Ability to determine distance/relationship between objects; depth perception. (Frequent) Good peripheral vision capabilities. (Continuous) Ability to maintain hearing acuity, with correction. (Continuous) Ability to perform gross motor functions with frequent fine motor movements. (Frequent)
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