Registered Nurse, Mother Baby Home Visits

Join Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist as a Home Visiting Specialist! (Full Time, Days) Provide vital support to families during the postnatal period, assessing needs and connecting them with community resources. Work with a dedicated team, scheduling visits and fostering strong relationships. Seeking individuals experienced in maternal/child health and home visiting.

Position Highlights:

• Shift Schedule:  Full time, Days M-F
• Department:  Birth Center 
• Location: Winston Salem, NC

What We Offer:

• Day 1 Health Coverage: Choose from either copay or HSA-eligible health insurance options with coverage starting on your first day of work.
• Generous PTO: Accrual up to 25 days/year, to be used for vacations, sickness, holidays, and personal matters.
• Education Reimbursement: We invest in your professional growth, offering up to $2,500 per year towards a bachelor's degree and up to $5,000 per year towards a graduate degree.
• Wellness Incentives: Take advantage of up to $1,350 per year in wellness incentives through our LiveWELL program, prioritizing your well-being.
• Parental Benefits: We understand the importance of family, providing six weeks of paid birthing-mother maternity leave and four weeks of paid parental leave. Fertility treatment resources offered after 1 year of employment.
• Retirement: Secure your financial future with up to 7% employer-paid retirement contributions.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in nursing, and three years of applicable clinical experience in maternal/child health required. Clinical experience related to domestic violence, substance abuse and/or depression preferred.
• Registered Nurse licensure from the State of North Carolina Board of Nursing.
• Certified Lactation Educator or Consultant.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) required.
• Spanish language proficiency preferred.
• master's degree in nursing preferred.

 Job Summary:

As a Home Visiting Specialist, you'll need exceptional communication prowess, both verbal and written, to engage and connect effectively. Thrives in collaborative environments, seamlessly working with diverse clinical and non-clinical teams. Masterful at forging and nurturing relationships with esteemed staff and physicians. Adaptable to diverse cultural contexts, fostering inclusivity and understanding. Have dynamic collaboration with nurse supervisors to innovate practice and elevate clinical development. Tech-savvy and confident in utilizing laptops for cutting-edge in-home assessments and interventions.

Mastery of evidence-based clinical practices, ensuring top-tier care in Women's Health, Labor and Delivery, Postpartum, and Newborn care. Delivers unparalleled customer service, attuned to patient perceptions and needs. Adept at navigating dynamic environments with agility and grace. Demonstrates resilience and effectiveness in high-pressure situations, thriving amidst challenges. Had a deep understanding of labor and delivery laws, regulations, and ethical considerations, ensuring compliance and excellence.

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

1. Maintains compliance with hospital, regulatory, and Joint Commission guidelines and adherence to standards related to education to enhance safe, quality patient care. Actively engages in continuous quality improvement initiatives. 

2. Demonstrates organizational commitment, ethical and professional behavior by serving as a role model for hospital values to staff, physicians and patients. Maintains appropriate confidentiality of privileged information. Participates in activities to promote professional growth and development. 

3. Maintains records of client observations and activities as required. Documents information for family assessments and program evaluation. Records information in real time via in home use of computerized record system. 

4. Visits target area hospitals as needed to schedule Home Visits for new mothers. 

5. Provides a health and physical assessment of mother and baby in the home to determine wellbeing. 

6. Assesses family needs in 12 domains of physical and psychosocial wellbeing, including depression, substance abuse, and domestic violence. Exercises clinical skills in appraising situations and making decisions. 

7. Establishes a trusting relationship with families during in-Home Visits and engages the family to establish a family support plan with goals, objectives, and activities that address family strengths and needs. 

8. Collaborates with team to ensure appropriate referrals and connections to community resources as needed. Works with team to assist parents in making and attending appointments for doctors, and social service agencies. Functions as a liaison between families and other community agencies, serving as family advocate as required. 

9. Applies working knowledge of parent-child interaction, child-maternal health, child development, and child abuse/neglect to help families improve parenting skills, increase parenting supports, reduce stress, and address needs of parents; assist in creating a health plan for entire family. 

10. Maintains eight open visit slots and conducts and documents at least six Home Visits per week. Responds to client needs through flexible scheduling of Home Visits, including occasional Home Visits during evening or weekend hours. 

11. Demonstrates effective time-management skills, organization, and multitasking skills. Documentation is expected to be done and letters sent out within 48 working hours of the visit. 

If you're passionate about making a difference in families' lives and thrive in a collaborative environment, apply now to be part of our mission!

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.