Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Job Summary

A Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) is a highly skilled healthcare professional who provides comprehensive care to women across their lifespan, focusing on pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and gynecological health. CNMs are responsible for promoting women's health and well-being through personalized care, education, and support.

Essential Functions

• Conduct thorough assessments, manage routine and high-risk pregnancies, provide prenatal education, and develop individualized birth plans.
• Offer postpartum support, conduct examinations, provide breastfeeding assistance, and address physical and emotional recovery needs.
• Perform routine gynecological exams, including Pap smears, contraception counseling, and management of menopause and other gynecological conditions.
• Educate patients on reproductive health, prenatal and postpartum care, and family planning.
• Work closely with obstetricians, pediatricians, and other healthcare providers to ensure comprehensive and coordinated care.
• Maintain accurate and detailed patient records, ensuring confidentiality and compliance with healthcare regulations.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development and staying current with advancements in midwifery practice.
• Actively participates in clinic quality improvement activities.
• Participate in meetings and represent OHC as required.
• Must comply with federal laws and regulations as required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).
• Performs related duties.

Requirements

• Participates in Core Connections training and applies GPTLHB Core Connections concepts and practices in their work.
• Familiarity and/or experience working with American Indian populations and respect for and knowledge of traditional, cultural and spiritual practices of diverse American Indian communities, as well as an ability to work with other culturally and ethnically diverse populations.
• Consistently demonstrate respect for and acceptance of differing capabilities, cultures, gender, age, sexual orientation and/or personalities.
• Possess the ability to resolve issues with other departments and coworkers without direct supervision.
• Able to exercise flexibility to alter plans/routines when situations require and continue to perform without projecting stress/frustration that would adversely affect the work environment.
• Ability to maintain a flexible work schedule, including evenings, weekends and overnight or extended travel as necessary.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to community members, consumers and other employees of the organization.
• Proficiency with computer programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and other Internet technologies.
• Valid driver’s license must be kept current, and certificates, credentials or licenses must be kept current and consistent with regulations required by applicable federal, state and/or grant regulations.

Minimum Requirements

• Master’s degree in Nurse-Midwifery from an accredited program. Certification by the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB). Valid state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) and Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN).
• This is a senior professional and/or management position that requires post-secondary education and/or considerable experience or a clinical degree requiring a clinical rotation/internship. Individuals must have applicable education and/or experience applying principles, concepts, and methodology of a professional or administrative occupation to permit the independent performance of recurring assignments or carrying out difficult/complex assignments, operations, and procedures; or applicable education and/or experience applying a wide range of technical methods, principles, and practices similar to a narrow area of a professional field such as the design and planning of difficult, but well-presented projects.
• Post-secondary education or experience which provides the expertise required to perform effectively the functions of the position may substitute for the degree on a year for year basis.

The GPTLHB is a tribal organization that follows tribal preference laws. Our policy is to give preference to qualified Indian/Tribal candidates over qualified non-native candidates in hiring decisions if all other qualifications are equal.

Employment is contingent upon the outcome of all required criminal background checks

Compliance with our Employee Health Procedure is a condition of employment. You are required to agree that you will comply with all job-related employee health screening and immunizations prior to your first day of employment. Jobs require that you have documentation that you have completed the following immunizations prior to your first day of employment: MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella, Varicella (Chicken Pox), Hepatitis B, Influenza, T-dap (Tetanus - Diphtheria - Pertussis), and COVID-19 vaccination is required

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