Certified Professional Midwife

Company Information: 

Tender Gifts Midwifery has been offering exceptional birth services in Fort Collins, Colorado, and surrounding areas for over the past 9 years. Our homebirth practice has now expanded, adding a beautiful, birth center! We are excited to be growing exponentially and excited to be adding to our birth family team! Our culture is one of being people, detail, and team oriented. Family and community are of the upmost importance for a good work environment! We want to find people who believer in and value of mission and goals as a company, and feel inspired to grow as an individual and as a team! To inquire more about us, please see our website at https://www.tendergiftsmidwiferyandbirthcenter.com/.

Position Summary:

Currently looking for a Certified Professional Midwife for our community birth center. In this position you will administer prenatal care, labor and delivery care, postpartum care and newborn care that are appropriate to community birth settings. This is an in person, on-call position; we have both part time, and full time employment opportunities available. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Our ideal Certified Professional Midwife will administer prenatal care, labor and delivery care, postpartum care and newborn care that are appropriate to community birth settings .
• Provide direct care for women in labor, including management of normal delivery in the home or at the birth center when applicable. 
• Offer education, health counseling, and health advocacy services to clients, families and significant other.
• Maintain all client records including charts, lab records, and weekly chart review.
• Order appropriate lab tests and referrals, interpret test results and follow-up of abnormal lab reports .
• Adhere to Health and Safety Policies and Procedures; participate in all safety programs, which may include assignment to an emergency response team 
• Performs all necessary client consultations 
• Exhibit a knowledge base of the work environment and the laws regulating Colorado midwives, and birth centers.
• Focus on providing high-quality, evidence-based care for women and families.
• Have a vision for community projects, while being self-directed, comfortable with independent practice, and the ability to guide Birth Center team members toward optimal service outcomes.
• Be open to and have a basic knowledge of alternative and holistic modalities of care and providers.

Additional Job Responsibilities:

• Maintain quality, optimal client care.
• Plans, implements and evaluates client care plans.
• Provides care in the context of promoting age and culture-appropriate informed choices, shared decision-making and the right to self-determination.
• Participates in clinic and on-call CPM performing antepartum, intrapartum, birth, postpartum, newborn, well-woman care along with problem focused visits the schedule may permit.
• Attend staff meetings, training and education sessions as required or directed by the Department of Colorado Regulatory Agency and Governing Body.

Education: High school or equivalent plus

Experience: Birth center, outpatient, and labor and delivery experience. 

License/Certification:

• Current or ability to obtain licensure as an Certified Professional Midwife in Colorado
• Current BLS and NRP Certifications

Work Hours: Varies Monday - Friday, and on-call

Compensation: $65- $85,000.00 annually dependent on experience

Benefits: 

• Malpractice insurance
• Paid time off
• CEU Reimbursement including continued education allowance, paid time off and a potential reimbursement for additional licensing and CEU’s. 

The Certified Professional Midwives will uphold moral and ethical standards of Tender Gifts Midwifery & Birth Center. Abuse of alcohol, prescription drugs, recreational drugs, tobacco use or electronic cigarette use on the premises will not be tolerated and provides grounds for immediate termination of the contract of services.

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