EMPLOYMENT

LACTATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL

Position Overview:

The Healthy Start Center for Urban Breastfeeding is a comprehensive breastfeeding education, support, outreach and advocacy initiative focused on improving the trajectory of breastfeeding for Black women and babies. 

Join our team of lactation support professionals and help Black women and birthing people in Allegheny community reach their breastfeeding goals through respectful, compassionate and culturally-responsive care. Our trained lactation support providers ensure that all participants of the Healthy Start Center for Urban Breastfeeding (HSCUB) are served both timely and with the highest level of care and expertise. The trained lactation support provider will develop a keen understanding of all services provided within the HSCUB in order to provide participants with the full scope of support throughout their individualized breastfeeding journey. 

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EXECUTIVE PROJECT ASSISTANT

Position Overview:

The Executive Project Assistant provides administrative and project support primarily to the Director of Strategic Initiatives and the Allegheny BIRTH Initiative Director, who lead activities that promote Healthy Start’s strategic objectives, including managing the activities of the Allegheny County BIRTH (Battling Inequities and Realizing Transformational Health Outcomes) Plan for Black Babies and Families as well as a growing portfolio of related strategic projects. Duties include:

• Support executive scheduling.
• Review documentation related to program policies and protocols to develop a strong knowledge base for administrative and project support.
• Support grant administration, including monitoring and tracking project progress/grant activities.
• Support with project management systems and documents (e.g., updating work plans, distributing reporting templates, etc.)
• Meeting support, including scheduling, taking meeting minutes, preparing reports, preparing presentations and updating slide decks.
• Support with event planning; attend community events/meetings as delegated.
• Assist with writing reports and other project related documentation.
• Organize and monitor schedules ensuring that deadlines are met.
• Complete administrative tasks such as conducting research or sending emails.

Other responsibilities as assigned.

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I.H.E FELLOW – ALLEGHENY COUNTY B.I.R.T.H. INITIATIVE 

Position Overview:

The Infant Health Equity (IHE) Fellowship is a twelve-month cross agency fellowship designed to provide an individual with a meaningful learning experience, professional development training, mentorship, funding, and additional support in effort to advance Allegheny County’s B.I.R.T.H Plan for Black Babies and Black Families. The selected fellow will engage in participatory practice and action learning with an emphasis on equity, policy advocacy, and data. Healthy Start Inc. Pittsburgh, Trying Together, Allegheny County Health Department, and Allegheny County Department of Human Services, are hosting the programming which focuses on helping the fellow develop the following competencies…

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OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT SPECIALIST- HELLO BABY PRIORITY

Position Overview:

This is a community-based home visiting “peer support” position contributing to the successful delivery of services and supports for families of newborns in Allegheny County who have complex needs. As a member of the Hello Baby Priority team, the Outreach & Engagement Specialist (OES) is extremely knowledgeable of their assigned service area and the unique dynamics of family and community within the geographic region. The OES will focus on outreach, engaging and supporting enrolled families using the Camden Coalition COACH model.  The successful OES is tenacious, passionate, knowledgeable of family systems, aware of community resources, is empathetic, is flexible and thinks outside the box, has excellent written and verbal communication skills, and embodies the project’s core principles of community engagement, authentic healing relationships, family and child well-being, equity and respect.

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PUBLIC HEALTH PROJECT MANAGER

Position Overview:

This is an advanced-level public health position, managing projects and initiatives that contribute to advancing Healthy Start’s mission. As part of the Healthy Start multidisciplinary team, the Public Health Project Manager (PM) has a passion for maternal and child health and advances family systems and life course approaches to support improved birth outcomes, and family and community health and well-being. The PM has a focus on health equity, using evidence-based practice, supporting Healthy Start’s unique contributions to the field of maternal and child health, eradicating disparities faced by members of the Black community, and will work with internal and external stakeholders to serve the Healthy Start participant population and the community at large.

The project manager will work on a variety of projects—with local, regional and national partners—that explore the intersections of health equity, maternal and child health and chronic disease.

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POSTPARTUM DOULA

Position Overview:

Healthy Start is adding full-time birth and postpartum doulas to the team! As a part of the Healthy Start multidisciplinary team, our doulas have a passion for maternal and child health, and advance family systems and life course approaches to support improved birth outcomes and family and community health and well-being. Our doulas focus on health equity, using evidence-based practice, supporting Healthy Start’s unique contributions to the field of maternal and child health, eradicating disparities faced by members of the Black community, and will work to serve the Healthy Start participant population and the community at large.

Healthy Start’s postpartum doula(s) will serve new mothers with support in attaining their breastfeeding goals, addressing mental health concerns and attending their postpartum visits. They will also service mothers and families with hypertensive disorder of pregnancy to regulate their blood pressure.

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COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER

Position Overview:

This is an advanced level community-based position that provides case management, coordination of care and health education to Healthy Start, Inc. program participants. This position serves as the first line of care in the Healthy Start, Inc. model. The Community Health Worker has a passion for maternal and child health and advances family systems and life course approaches to support improved birth outcomes, and family health and well-being.

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MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH NURSE

Position Overview:

The Maternal and Child Nurse supports all aspects of patient care in the community setting, delivering services to Healthy Start program participants according to risk assessment and program guidelines/protocol. The Nurse will deliver clinical care across three modalities:
• Centering Pregnancy group prenatal care model
• Prenatal and postpartum home visiting and virtual consultation for mothers/babies with health risks
• Education and care coordination, with a focus on promoting care at community health centers and other HS clinical partners
• Provide clinical consultation the Birth Doula program

The nurse a joint position with Healthy Start and the care team at Primary Care Health Services (PCHS), federally qualified health center with whom we partner to deliver the Centering model of prenatal care, with the specific aims of addressing infant and maternal mortality and morbidity. The duties of this role will primarily take place at Healthy Start or with Healthy Start participants with a supplemental 4-8 hour per week of clinical time at PCHS locations.

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CERTIFIED LACTATION COUNSELOR (Contractual)

Position Overview:

The Healthy Start Center for Urban Breastfeeding is a comprehensive breastfeeding education, support, outreach and advocacy initiative focused on improving the trajectory of breastfeeding for Black women and babies.

Join our team of lactation support professionals and help your community reach its breastfeeding goals.

Our Certified Lactation Counselors (CLC) ensure that all participants of the Healthy Start Center for Urban Breastfeeding (HSCUB) are served both timely and with the highest level of care and expertise. The CLC will develop a keen understanding of all services provided within the HSCUB in order to provide participants with the full scope of support throughout their individualized breastfeeding journey.

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