Job Description:

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The Care Coordination Program (CCP) is an outreach and short-term care coordination program within HealthCare Access Maryland. In collaboration with the B’More for Healthy Babies Initiative, the Safe Sleep Coordinator @ HCAM works in an essential role to improve and promote the awareness Safe Sleep practices, provide education regarding infant safety, and work in collaboration with providers and hospitals to improve the rate of infant deaths in Baltimore City related to unsafe sleep practices.

The Safe Sleep program at HealthCare Access Maryland provides safe sleep and family planning education, assessment, referral, and provision of a portable crib to qualifying Baltimore City families. The Safe Sleep Coordinator is responsible for providing client assessments, performing health education, and completing the home delivery of portable cribs.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Provide education on Safe Sleep practices, available resources to clients with a demonstrated need.


• Provide prenatal, post-partum, health education to women referred to the Safe Sleep Project.


• Provide linkage to Family Planning Services, education, and counseling on available methods -especially long-acting reversible methods, compliance with post-partum care, the importance of birth-spacing/life-course planning, and the establishment of a medical home.


• Makes Referrals to resources such as WIC, Infant and Toddlers, home visiting programs, etc.


• Deliver cribs to clients’ home - including demonstration of the set-up and breakdown of the crib -with client re-demonstration.


• Maintains a database of all referrals including all outreach attempts and final disposition.


• Maintains inventory of cribs and other Safe Sleep materials (onesies, sleepers, literature)


• Completes a monthly report of crib distribution and provide crib receipts.


• Document service outcomes on referral form and database


• Provides monthly updates of referrals received and completed to the MCH Community Liaison/Supervisor
  


• Assist in record preparation for City-wide meetings pertaining to Safe-Sleep, such as Child Fatality Review and Fetal Infant Mortality Review


• Assist in the development and community education materials related to safe sleep as a preventive measure to infant/child loss.


• Conduct provider and community-based safe sleep education events.


• Other related duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related area preferred. 3 years of human services experience may be substituted for the degree.

• Proficient interpersonal and communication skills.


• Speaks fluent Spanish, as a primary/secondary language preferred not required.


• Demonstrated knowledge in the following areas: Community Outreach and Health Education


• Familiarity with the prenatal/postpartum and newborn population


• Comfortable with making home visits in Baltimore City.


• Must have reliable transportation.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and ABILITIES:

• Strong computer literacy skills, specifically with MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and SharePoint (365).

• Organizational skills with the ability to meet a demanding workload


• Excellent oral and written interpersonal and communication skills required


• Problem solving skills


• Proven ability to work efficiently and meet deadlines

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear and respond to customers and employees. The employee frequently is required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to walk 3 blocks or more and sit for prolonged periods of time. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

SAFETY & HEALTH RESPONSIBILITES:

HCAM is committed to providing and maintaining a safe, secure and healthy work environment for all employees, clients served, volunteers and visitors. As part of this commitment, HCAM has developed safety, security and occupational health policies, practices, and standards.

With this understanding, all employees are required to: Adhere to all local, state and federal safety and environmental codes, ordinances, standards and laws; adhere to all HCAM and local safety plans, policies, practices and standards; be aware of and follow all safety rules of your work site; report any unsafe conditions or accidents to your supervisor; practice standard precautions (formerly universal precautions) at all times, and; participate in mandatory or available safety training.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Work is performed in a variety of community settings, (e.g. office, schools, public agencies), or the client’s home where illness, disease or stressful situations may be encountered. Work in this class may require a valid driver’s license, and/or extensive physical exertion via walking, standing and/or climbing stairs.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to both indoor and outdoor conditions. The employee will be subject to noise.

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• Bachelor’s Degree in a related area preferred. 3 years of human services experience may be substituted for the degree.

• Proficient interpersonal and communication skills.


• Speaks fluent Spanish, as a primary/secondary language preferred not required.


• Demonstrated knowledge in the following areas: Community Outreach and Health Education


• Familiarity with the prenatal/postpartum and newborn population


• Comfortable with making home visits in Baltimore City.

Must have reliable transportation

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