Nurse Home Visitor-Maternal Infant

Job Title

Supports new parents in providing newborn care, offers physical assessments, addresses questions, identifies needs, and helps to identify and facilitate referrals to community services or resources. Provides home visits in the determined catchment area and works in a multidisciplinary environment to schedule, visit, and support families. Adheres to the FC model, and to policies, procedures, guidelines and standards. Practices professional nursing and promotes patient advocacy in accordance with the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses and maintains a current Ohio Nursing License.

Job Description

Essential Functions:

• Follows protocols, records observations and activities, and documents information for family assessments and program evaluation. Records information in real time via in-home use of computerized record systems and in compliance with state guidelines. Visits target area hospitals as needed to schedule home visits for new mothers.
• Provides a health and physical assessment of mother and baby in the home to determine well-being. Assesses family in 12 domains of physical and psychosocial well-being, including depression, substance abuse, and domestic violence.
• Establishes a trusting relationship with families during in-home visits and engages the family to establish a support plan with goals, objectives, and activities.
• Collaborates to ensure appropriate referrals and connections to community resources, acting as a liaison and advocate. Assists parents in making and attending appointments as needed.
• Applies working knowledge of parent-child interaction, child maternal health, child development, and child abuse or neglect to help families improve parenting skills, increase parenting supports, reduce stress, and address needs of parents.
• Maintains eight open visit slots. Conducts and documents at least six home visits per week. Responds to client needs through flexible scheduling of home visits.
• Attends weekly team meetings, clinical supervision, staff meetings, and other meetings. Supports and encourages the development of staff and programs. Identifies gaps in critical community-wide resources with the goal of working toward increasing needed services locally.

Education Requirement

• Associates degree in Nursing, required.
• BSN, preferred.

Licensure Requirement

Active Ohio RN license, required.

Certifications

• BLS, required.
• Certified Lactation Educator or Consultant, required.

Skills

• Proficient and comfortable using laptops as part of in-home assessment and intervention.
• Ability to work on a team of clinical and non-clinical professionals.
• Effective time-management skills, organization, and multitasking skills.
• Exercises clinical skills in appraising situations and making decisions.

Experience

• Clinical experience related to domestic violence, substance abuse and/or depression, required.
• One year of experience in child/maternal health, social work, or another related field, required.
• Experience working with diverse populations, required.

Physical Requirements

OCCASIONALLY: Blood and/or Bodily Fluids, Communicable Diseases and/or Pathogens, Electricity, Lifting / Carrying: 11-20 lbs, Machinery, Patient Equipment, Pushing / Pulling: 0-25 lbs, Reaching above shoulder

FREQUENTLY: Bend/twist, Climb stairs/ladder, Color vision, Depth perception, Lifting / Carrying: 0-10 lbs, Peripheral vision, Seeing Far/near, Squat/kneel, Standing, Walking

CONTINUOUSLY: Audible speech, Decision Making, Hearing acuity, Interpreting Data, Problem solving, Repetitive hand/arm use, Sitting

"The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this classification. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the individuals so classified, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under their supervision. EOE M/F/Disability/Vet"