UNIV - Part-Time Doula - Psychiatry: Women's Reproductive Behavioral Health

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 te