Certified Nurse Midwife - Community of HOPE

• We care for families by providing direct services with a focus on prevention, healing, and wellness.
• We improve lives by building on families’ strengths, honoring their choices, and taking a whole-family, multi-generational approach.
• We lead and advocate for system change to address the effects of historical and current racial inequities on health outcomes and housing opportunities.
• We embrace the diversity of our community, welcome all voices and perspectives, and treat everyone with respect, compassion, and integrity.
• We strive for excellence in all that we do, implement evidence-based practices, measure our outcomes, and use this knowledge to continuously strengthen our work.

• Manages the care of women and their newborns and gives direct client services including: antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, family planning, and gynecological care, according to the standards of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, the American Association of Birth Centers, and the policies, procedures and clinical guidelines of Community of Hope at Family Health and Birth Center and Washington Hospital Center.
• Consults with the physician, according to the established risk criteria, regarding any client who develops symptoms of medical or obstetric complications.
• Co-manages with the physician the care of women who develop complications.
• Refers to medical management any woman who develops complications which, in the judgment of either or both the physician and CNM, are best managed by a physician.
• Plans and provides continuing health supervision and education to all clients under her/his care.
• Consults with and refers to other members of the health care team and community resources as indicated.
• Maintains complete, accurate, legible, and appropriate records.
• Is compliant with all federal regulations, HIPAA, OSHA.
• Is current with ongoing training and CMEs as required for licensing.
• Completes and locks all progress notes within 3 business days after patient visit. 
• Documents all patient encounters, including face to face, telephone, and electronic communications, in the medical record in a timely fashion. 
• Uses all mandatory, structured fields as required in eCW. 
• Uses the patient alert system to prevent ‘missed opportunities’ for care. 
• Signs off on all laboratory results, diagnostic imaging results, and referral reports in a timely fashion; sharing this information with patients as appropriate. 
• Secures patient information and maintains patient confidence by completing and safeguarding medical records and keeping patient information confidential. 
• Maintains effective and efficient working relations’ with the birth center staff, consulting staff, other health disciplines, families and public.
• Attends required hospital and birth center meetings.
• Participates in public relations programs that publicize midwifery, advanced nursing practice and/or birth center care.
• Assists with providing key clinical information for fundraising purposes as needed.
• Attends Health Services’ staff meetings and other all-staff meetings.
• Represents Community of Hope at health related community functions as requested.

• Current license as a Nurse-Midwife in in the District of Columbia required. 
• National Certification as Certified Nurse Midwife required. 
• Experience with both hospital and out-of-hospital births; experience with 40 or more births preferred; No new grads at this time.
• Current adult CPR certification (ACLS or BLS for the Healthcare Provider or equivalent) required.
• Current neonatal resuscitation certification (NALS or NRP or equivalent) required.
• Participation in appropriate continuous medical education;
• Bilingual in Spanish and/or Amharic preferred.
• Commitment to working with the underserved.
• Ability to work in a non-profit environment.

• Remote work opportunities are available for many of our roles, promoting a culture of work-life balance.
• 8-hour workdays, which include a paid lunch.
• 11.5 paid company holidays, 1 personal floating holiday, 15 days of paid vacation (increases to 20 after 3 years of service), and 12 days of paid sick leave on an annual basis.
• Annual performance-based raises, up to 5% of your annual pay.
• National Health Service Corps (NHSC) and DC Health Professional Loan Repayment Program (DCHPLRP) participants.
• Tuition reimbursement, loan repayment for clinicians, licensing reimbursement, and continuing education unit funds for licensed staff.
• Many opportunities for internal promotions and transfers across the agency as we continue to grow; we average 30+ promotions each year.
• Ongoing internal leadership training for supervisors.
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion training and initiatives for all staff.
• Ongoing well-being activities, culture compact activities, and trauma-informed care initiatives.
• Medical/Dental/Vision Plans through CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield.
• Life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
• 403(b) Retirement Plan.
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical and dependent care reimbursable expenses.
• And much more!

Community of Hope is a mission-driven, innovative, and rapidly growing nonprofit. For nearly 40 years, we have provided healthcare, housing, and supportive services for low-income, underserved, and homeless people in Washington DC. As a Federally Qualified Health Center, we provide medical, dental, behavioral health, and care coordination services for the whole family at three locations in DC. Community of Hope also has a strong emphasis on maternal and child health, with a midwifery practice and the only free-standing birth center in DC. In 2020, Community of Hope provided about 28,400 medical visits, 7,000 dental visits, and 10,000 behavioral health visits for about 11,000 patients. Community of Hope is also providing community walk-in COVID testing and COVID vaccines. Community of Hope is also one of the largest providers in DC of housing and support services for families experiencing homelessness.  Through providing these programs, we live out our mission to improve health and end family homelessness to make Washington, DC more equitable.