OPEN POSITION

The Service in the Department of OB-GYN at Boston Medical Center is recruiting for a certified nurse to staff our new Birth Center

Position

Boston Medical Center is opening a new, midwifery-led Birth Center and seeks certified nurse to staff the Birth Center, as well as provide some cross-coverage of other hospital midwifery shifts. The right candidate is a certified nurse midwife with experience working in a Birth Center setting, commitment to serving diverse and underserved families, and strong interpersonal skills. Some hospital experience is also helpful.

Minimum qualifications:  Certification in nurse-midwifery from the American Midwifery Certification Board  Eligible for Massachusetts nurse midwifery license  Master’s degree from an accredited College or University.  At least 3 years of clinical midwifery experience  At least 1 year of Birth Center setting experience, including newborn care  Experience working with underserved families  Fluency in Spanish or Haitian Creole strongly preferred

Responsibilities will include providing primary coverage of Birth Center call, , and . Cross-coverage of our labor and delivery unit and postpartum rounding service will also be required. All midwifery staff are faculty appointed in the Boston University School of Medicine and are expected to contribute to academic work. All midwives on labor and delivery are expected to teach residents, medical students, and midwifery students.

Applicants must have the ability to work collegially within a diverse environment and demonstrate a commitment to our institutional values regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. Salary and level of academic appointment will be based upon experience and qualifications. Academic appointment rank is commensurate with experience and CV. We offer a competitive salary and an attractive benefits package.

Our Practice

Opening in the spring of 2020, the Birth Center will be a 2-3 room, home-like setting located in an ambulatory building on our hospital campus. It will provide Birth Center care for women and their newborns receiving prenatal care at Boston Medical Center and its health center affiliates who are at low-risk for complications and who desire low-intervention care. Accreditation by the American Association of Birth Centers will be a goal in the development of the unit. Staffing will include a primary Birth Center staff, with some overlapping coverage of the inpatient services. Hospital midwives will serve as second call staff. The hospital midwifery service, in existence since 1979, attends a diverse, multicultural population and has approximately 900 midwife-attended births/year on the labor and delivery unit. Midwives also provide full- scope midwifery care to women in 7 neighborhood health centers, the hospital OB/GYN clinic, and our Adolescent Center. The hospital service includes labor and delivery coverage 24 hrs/day, a daily post-partum rounding service, and daily coverage of our obstetrical triage unit. We work in a collaborative model with highly supportive obstetricians, perinatologists, and family medicine physicians.

The midwifery service is a multicultural group of 18 midwives who together speak English, Spanish, French, Thai, Cape Verdean Creole, and Haitian Creole. We are committed to holistic care for women and families. We have a robust Centering Program, and have developed services such as our Birth Sisters Program, a multi-cultural service offering home visiting and labor support.

Boston Medical Center

Emphasizing community-based care, Boston Medical Center (BMC) is the largest safety-net hospital in New England and is committed to providing consistently excellent and accessible health services to all. The hospital is also the primary teaching affiliate of the nationally ranked Boston University School of Medicine. Boston University is a world class research institution with more that $250 million in research grants each year.

BMC is more than a hospital. It is a network of support and care that touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in need each year. The institution has a strong focus on public health, both domestic and global, and a commitment to women’s health demonstrated by the recent construction of a beautiful state-of- the-art labor and delivery, postpartum, and NICU facility. The OB/GYN Department has over 2,900 births per year at Boston Medical Center. We are a full service tertiary care referral group of 35 physicians, 18 CNMs, and 5 NPs. The department’s clinical services and research programs are focused on eliminating disparities in health care. Although this position has primarily clinical and administrative responsibilities, all faculty members are expected to participate in scholarly activities, resident and medical student education, and research.

Interested candidates should send cover letter and resume via e-mail to Julie Mottl-Santiago, Director of Midwifery Services ([email protected]). Please put “Birth Center position” in Subject. Phone calls and hard copies discouraged.

BMC/BUSM is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer