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The evaluation cycle for the Doula shall be one fiscal year. |\n| Work Year: | Full Time/210 days Salary $52 ,000-$55 ,000 |\n\nObjective: To promote healthy pregnancies , breastfeeding, and healthy parent-infant attachment. To establish a trusting relationship with participants and provide culturally sensitive prenatal, labor and postpartum support.  \nJob Description/Responsibilities:  \n1. Provide physical and emotional support during the woman’s third trimester, labor, and postpartum period (up to 3 months) ,  \n2. Maintain regular contact and support with participating families  \n3. Build trusting relationships that offer strength-based services to families  \n4. Help participants advocate for themselves  \n5. Organize and facilitate prenatal education services and prenatal groups  \n6. Work collaboratively with home visitors to ensure quality services continue after the birth of the baby  \n7. Assist parents with infant feeding and basic infant care postpartum  \n8. Recruit and enroll families into Doula and home visiting programs  \n9. Be accessible to families 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as needed for labor support ; on call for attendance at Labor and Delivery  \n10. Ability to work flexible hours, including some evenings and weekends to meet the needs of the families.  \n11. Maintain accurate daily schedule of activities in google calendar  \n12. Utilize the PAT curriculum and other relevant curriculums to share research-based information with families  \n13. Participate in at least 2 hours of reflective supervision monthly  \n14. Participate in at least 2 hours of staff meetings monthly  \n15. Perform other related duties as assigned  \nPHYSICAL DEMANDS  \n● While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee frequently is required to use hands to handle or feel instructional materials. The employee is occasionally required to sit ; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.  \nWORK ENVIRONMENT  \n● The employee shall possess personal computing skills with the following types of software; web browsers, word processing, spreadsheet, and database systems. The employee shall use DROE-approved resources, technology, and assistive technology. While performing the duties of this job, the employee works in an office setting.  \nThe mental demands, physical demands, and work environment characteristics  \nare representative of those an employee encounters while performing the  \nessential functions of this job. 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