Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services. Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services. We are recruiting for the following position:

Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organization

Position Summary

This position is responsible for coordinating pre and postnatal risk assessment, teaching, and appropriate referral, for Sea Mar OB clients and eligible First Steps clients who receive OB care outside of Sea Mar..  Teaching may include but may not be limited to the following:  fetal development, normal changes in pregnancy, warning signs, importance of and expected course of medical care, sexuality/reproductive, nutrition, elimination, activity/exercise, sleep/rest, self-perception, role/relationship, coping/stress, values /beliefs, family planning, breastfeeding, and childbirth preparation.  Contact is initiated prenatal and a thorough nursing assessment is completed including referrals as needed to nutrition, social work, mental health, community service agencies, and/or medical providers.  Assessments, health messages, and education continue throughout the pregnancy with a minimal goal of one face to face visit each trimester and postpartum.  The MSS RN performs early postpartum home visits or office visits.  This person is responsible for triaging pre and postnatal needs of each client and scheduling visits and including all members of the Sea Mar MSS team and may include non-Sea Mar providers as needed.  Active participation in community-wide efforts/coalitions to provide ever-improving comprehensive interdisciplinary care to pre and postnatal clients is expected.  The productivity expectation for this position is 18 to 20 encounters per week for full time.

Duties and Responsibilities

As a mission-driven organization, the core values of, and the services offered at Sea Mar are based on the belief that everyone deserves to be respectfully treated in a way that preserves dignity and enhances self-worth. Sea Mar is an advocate for its clients and aims to achieve industry-leading, client-centered, culturally-aware services. 

Sea Mar employees serve as an extension of this mission and demonstrate their commitment to an excellent client experience by:

• Understanding and empathizing with client needs
• Surpassing client expectations
• Demonstrating a high level of integrity
• Exhibiting compassion and commitment
• Advocating for social justice
• Taking pride in individual work as well as that of the team
• Continually learning to stay current with industry standards, best practices and technology

As a Sea Mar employee, the individual in this position commits to adherence to these values to their utmost ability and endeavors to strengthen and embody this mission daily.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.  Other duties may be assigned.

• The MSS RN assesses and observes client and family needs with regards to understanding of pre and postnatal care and educates accordingly. 
• Consultation and coordination of client care is done on a regular and as needed basis with other professionals involved utilizing a team approach to comprehensive services.
• Ongoing demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with people from diverse backgrounds and to recognize cultural, environmental and socio-economic factors that may affect a client’s ability to receive, comprehend and retain information is essential to performance.
• The MSS RN must be comfortable yet professional in the client’s home setting with ability to set and maintain personal boundaries.
• Must be able to perform independently and at the same time perform effectively and professionally as an interdisciplinary team member.
• Must at all times preserve client confidentiality.
• Participation in monthly providers meetings.
• Attend Community First Steps meetings quarterly.
• Be available via pager for urgent needs.
• Have a valid Washington State Driver’s License and own or have access to an insured vehicle.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.
• Able to identify and categorize each patient’s age-specific grouping of needs, such as those for infant, adolescent, or geriatric patients.    
• Must document all nursing visits in the client MSS E H R.
• Must be able/willing to work with translators if not bilingual (Spanish).

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The person in this position must be of good character and able to maintain the understanding, physical health, emotional stability and personality suited to meet the physical, mental, emotional, and social needs of the population served.
• Must have good organizational and communication skills.
• Demonstrate professionalism and appropriate boundaries in all interactions.
• The person in this position shall have no history or evidence of alcohol or other drug misuse for a period of three (3) years prior to the date of employment at the facility, and no misuse of alcohol or other drugs while employed at this facility.
• This individual cannot be a person who has been convicted of a felony within the last seven years or ever been convicted of child abuse and / or any crime involving physical harm to another person nor be a perpetrator of substantiated child abuse.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to high.
• Bilingual (Spanish/English), bicultural preferred.  Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.  Ability to speak effectively before clients or employees of the organization. 

Education, Certificates, Licenses, Registrations, and Medical Screening

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• BSN/RN with recent maternal/infant, community, or public health experience.  Preferred experience in patient counseling and education, lactation consultation experience and training and/or certified Childbirth Educator.
• Prior experience and training in one or more areas of health education. 
• The incumbent must have experience in patient counseling and education, and recent perinatal nursing. 

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• This position must obtain Basic Life Support (BLS) CPR within 90 days of hire date and is required to maintain current BLS CPR throughout employment.

Additional Requirements

• Pre-hire and annual employee health screening required
• Annual influenza vaccine required.  Only exception is for employees with a medical or religious exemption approved by Administration.  Employees with an approved medical or religious exemption must wear a mask at all time during the flu season.

Work Environment

This job requires to work off site of the office doing Home visits, this position share office with the MSS team, be flexible with schedule as some of our clients can only been seeing evening and or weekend.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

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 use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to stand and walk.  The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

What We Offer:

Sea Mar offers talented and motivated people the opportunity to work in a dynamic and growing community health organization. Working at Sea Mar Community Health Centers is more than just a job, it’s a fulfilling career with opportunity for advancement. The fringe benefits surpass most companies. For example, Full-time employees working 30 hours or more, receive an excellent benefit package of:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Prescription coverage
• Life Insurance
• Long Term Disability
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Paid-time-off starting at 24 days per year + 10 paid Holidays.
• We also offer 401(k)/Retirement options and an exciting opportunity to work in a culturally diverse environment. 

Sea Mar is an equal opportunity employer.

Please visit our website to learn more about us at www.seamar.org. You may also apply thru our Career page at this link.