Job Summary
This is a part-time contract position. You will provide direct patient care and care navigation by delivering evidence-based care that is founded in awareness, education, and prevention for the perinatal mental health issues affecting our patients.
We are hiring a creative, thoughtful, and skilled person who is eager to improve access to the highest quality perinatal mental and behavioral care, with a particular focus on reducing disparities. As a member of the clinical team, you would support our whole-person program of emotional, mental and behavioral care for pregnant people before, during, and after pregnancy.
Responsibilities
- Providing one-on-one virtual care visits for BirthCare clients
- Providing behavioral health and health related social needs screenings and appropriate response including diagnostic, therapy, and behavioral health interventions to pregnant and postpartum patients.
- Performing ongoing psychosocial assessment of patients, providing reassurance and building rapport
- Establishing individualized care plans to meet specific health needs based on evidence-based standards
- Developing wellness goals by determining motivating factors and leveraging them for best possible health outcomes.
- Identifying and addressing barriers that have been identified by patients.
- Reducing care gaps (missed appointments, medication management, etc.) by frequent engagements with patient
- Triaging of patients with urgent screening results and concerns to appropriate virtual and in-person emergency services
- Collaborating with all involved teams and support services to ensure that patient and family needs are met.
- Documenting all care/interactions in a timely fashion and escalating to appropriate multidisciplinary teams, as needed
- Supporting group care, as needed
Qualifications
- Independently licensed as an LCSW, LMFT, LPC or LMHC
- Licensed in the state of VA, with the ability to get licensed in DC and MD.
- Have 5-8 years of experience providing therapy services
- Have experience with perinatal mental health care, possibly including: perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, substance abuse disorders, trauma-informed care
- Are enthusiastic for promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion in all aspects of BirthCare's internal and external programs
- Possess strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and follow through on multiple projects in a timely manner
- Are facile with email, spreadsheets, EHRs, and other commonly used software, and willingness to work with new software
- Understand the prevalence and role that birth inequity and structural racism plays in maternal morbidity and mortality
- Are professionally engaged
Bonus points if you have any of the following
- Certification in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C) (would need to complete within 1 year of employment)
- Multiple state licenses (must be eligible and willing to be cross-licensed in many states)
- Experience working with trauma patients
- Experience with cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR
- Experience in case management and care navigation
- Experience providing virtual care
- Experience participating in group care
Flexible work from home options available.
About Us
BirthCare & Women’s Health Ltd. is a practice of certified nurse-midwives located in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. We serve families desiring to birth in their home or in our nationally accredited birth center. We attend home births in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia within a 40-mile radius of Washington, D.C. For women and families who prefer a birth center experience, they may come to us from as far away as Winchester, Warrenton, Fredericksburg, Ellicott City, Gaithersburg, and Southern Maryland. In addition to our birth services, we also work with clients seeking personalized gynecologic care, and family planning.
Our Philosophy
The midwives at BirthCare believe that childbirth is a normal physiologic process. Childbirth is an event which best proceeds when the childbearing woman is the central focus, her health is promoted, she feels safe in her birth environment, and her natural efforts to birth are supported.
Clients can begin their care with us for well woman gynecology or for their first prenatal visit. Every appointment is an educational experience to enable the mother and family to most effectively promote a healthy normal pregnancy. Children are always welcome at the center for prenatal visits and, if desired, may be an integral part of the birth team.
BirthCare’s philosophy is based on the belief that health care for women takes place within the context of a partnership in which the provider and consumer of care have joint responsibility. Every woman brings to her pregnancy and birth her own unique gifts, which the BirthCare midwives encourage. We respect and enjoy working with the wide cultural diversity of mothers and families that have used our services. All care is designed to meet each client’s specific needs and preferences.
We encourage the mother to take an active role in the birth of her children. We take every opportunity to support and enhance bonding between the newborn and mother. During the childbearing cycle, her needs and desires to include her family in the birth process are respected. To best assist the women, babies, and families we serve, we need to ensure that safe out-of-hospital birth options and personalized gynecological care remain available.
Remote / Work from Home
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