Nurse Champion-Perinatal Neonatal Outreach Coordinator

JOB SUMMARY:

The primary purpose of this position is to support regional birthing facilities, health departments, providers, and key community partners to work collaboratively towards improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes in WNC region.  The key strategies for this work include establishing a system to determine risk appropriate levels of maternal and neonatal care, promoting the development of collaborative systems that foster proactive integration of risk-appropriate antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum care, and educating clinicians on the latest evidence-based information to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and skills to provide risk-appropriate care during antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum periods. This position has an end date of May 31, 2027.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategic Partnership Relationships and Engagement

• Establishes and maintains strong working relationships with regional key stakeholders engaged in perinatal/neonatal health, including but not limited to birthing facilities, public health entities, and social service and non-profit agencies.
• Models strong leadership qualities and MAHEC’s core values
• Uses best and emerging practices to foster effective engagement of key stakeholders in collaborative work
• Applies an equity lens across his/her work

Technical Assistance and Education

• Facilitates completion of regular assessment of levels of maternal and neonatal care, relevant community health indicator data, and other data as needed across WNC region
• Develops data visualization tools that promote effective stakeholder engagement and use of data to identify improvement opportunities and monitor ongoing performance
• Convenes partners and promotes collaborative team building
• Provides consultation and coaching for quality improvement initiatives
• Performs and maintains a gap analysis of regional perinatal and neonatal services
• Facilitates sustainability planning

Capacity Building

-      Develops and provides training that promotes key stakeholder capacity to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes through:

• performing ongoing assessments of levels of maternal and neonatal care
• using levels of care assessment and other relevant data to identify high impact improvement opportunities
• applying quality improvement skills and tools in ongoing work
• implementing evidence-based and emerging best practices
• implementing sustainability plans for ongoing assessment and quality improvement 
• adopting recommended level of care and appropriate maternal and neonatal health referrals across regional partners
• Promotes collaboration and high functioning cross-sector teams
• Fosters leadership development among core work force that supports risk appropriate levels of maternal and neonatal care
• Develops effective tools and resources to support stakeholder success

Professional Development

• Attends trainings and workshops relevant to successful completion of work and role responsibilities
• Engages in ongoing self-study

This role description is a general description of the essential job functions.  It is not intended to describe all the duties the Perinatal Neonatal Outreach Coordinator may perform.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

• Communication Skills

Effectively and respectably communicate with other individuals, whether it be a colleague, patient, or patient’s family member and appropriately enumerate information in a manner easily understood by all parties. We do this to foster a culture of understanding between all parties, especially in complex and difficult situations, to ultimately provide the best care possible to our patients and their families.

• Decision Making

Ability to make the most appropriate decision in a given situation and then taking the next steps to ensure appropriate and timely completion. This requires conflict resolution skills, critical thinking skills, confidence in your ability to make the right decision in most situations. This also includes ability to prioritize your workday appropriately to ensure the most important tasks are completed on time.

• HealthCare Knowledge

Having the drive to keep yourself abreast and up to date on the new breakthrough