The Institute for Family health is committed to providing high-quality patient centered care to all. At the Institute's clinics pregnant persons are offered a team of social workers, nurses, and providers that help our patients to navigate the complex health system in order to have healthy pregnancies, babies, and reproductive care. The Perinatal Care Navigator will be responsible for coordinating the logistics of prenatal care for our patients, leading our CenteringPregnancy program, and developing individual relationships with patients. Through these roles, the Perinatal Care Navigator will contribute to ensuring quality of patient care in prenatal and postpartum services.
- Independently manages the Centering Pregnancy program including: Designing in-person and online prenatal group education materials that are inclusive of diverse and high risk patient populations; Planning, scheduling, organizing, and facilitating CenteringPregnancy; Recruiting prenatal patients and outreach for CenteringPregnancy; Resource management and evaluation
- Providing individual counseling and education to patients at their appointment regarding contraception, prenatal health, birth, postpartum, infant feeding and newborn care
- Connecting prenatal patients to vital community-based resources, programs, social services and community organizations
- Responsible for independently monitoring their site’s prenatal patient lists to: ensure completion of upcoming prenatal appointments and referral appointments, make appointment reminders, make outreach calls for missed appointments, and general follow up to care calls
- Monitoring prenatal referrals to ensure that they are scheduled promptly and appropriately
- Outreaching to patients after delivery to schedule newborn and postpartum visits Updating the prenatal information, delivery information, and postpartum registry for patients in EMR system
- Meet with Perinatal Health Champion and OB/GYN providers on a consistent basis to review patient charts and enhance care coordination.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $21.77 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- 403(b) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Medical specialties:
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Work setting:
- Community health center
- In-person
Ability to Relocate:
- New York, NY 10011: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person