Job Description

Job Purpose & Position Overview:
This position is located at the Winnebago Wazokina Wakarasisik Ra. A home visitor’s primary role is to support pregnant individuals and their families throughout the prenatal and postpartum periods, ensuring a positive birthing experience and smooth transition into parenthood. This involves providing emotional and physical support, education, and resources to promote health and prevent disease among women of childbearing age and children up to five years old. This staff member works with individuals, families, and the wider community in their designated geographical area, emphasizing the importance of culturally sensitive care and holistic health practices. By fostering a nurturing environment this staff member will play a critical role in enhancing maternal and child health outcomes.
Specific Job Duties/Responsibilities:
• Utilizes a case management process in order to assess plan, implement and evaluate health needs in providing nursing care to individuals and families including interventions designed to prevent complications and minimize disabilities.
• Case Management of this population with a focus on the high-risk prenatal and postpartum women and infants’ birth to 6 months.
• Records and documents according to established standards and procedures.
• Teaches and supervises patients and families in techniques of positive health measures. Assists them in understanding, accepting, and adjusting to the implications and responsibilities of medical or other needed care, diagnosis, and treatment.
• Assists in planning and evaluating the women of childbearing age, specifically prenatal/postpartum women and children birth to 6 months. Helps to maintain proper lines of communication so that responsible parties are adequately informed.
• Provides continuity of patient care and case management by planning and exchanging information with other Tribal and community resources.
• Interpersonal skills to inspire trust and build strong relationships with clients
• Active listening skills to fully understand clients’ preferences and needs
• Verbal communication skills to facilitate conversations with clients, their families and medical providers
• Problem-solving skills to manage issues that arise during and after delivery
• Organizational and time management skills to deliver care for multiple clients at one time
• Computer skills for emailing, client relationship management, billing and using word processing software
• Assumes personal responsibility to keep informed of current changes and trends affecting nursing care and professional nurse functions for women of childbearing age, specifically prenatal/postpartum women and children birth to 6 months.
• Ability to communicate and interact with all members of the multi-disciplinary healthcare team
FACTOR 1 - Knowledge Required by the Position:
• Knowledge of child birthing and nursing techniques, non-medicinal pain management strategies and childcare best practices
• Recordkeeping skills to log hours worked and services performed
• Knowledge of drugs and biologicals, their desired effects and contradictions.
• Knowledge of and ability to promote wellness through teaching and counseling.
• Knowledge of availability and use of community resources.
• Knowledge of the mores and customs of the Indian community with the area and the ability to appreciate cultured differences.
• Knowledge of and ability to perform quality assurance.
• Ability to recognize the needs and concerns of people (including colleagues) and to maintain constructive relationship in dealing with them.
• Knowledge and ability necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of patients served. Incumbent demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span, specific to women of child bearing age, specifically prenatal/postpartum women and children birth to 6 months. Ability to identify, categorize, and perform clinical services to address each patient's age-specific needs, specifically women of child bearing age, prenatal/postpartum women and children birth to 6 months.
Qualifications/Skills:
• Associate degree preferred, but a high school or GED diploma required.
• Excellent clinical skills
• Ability to provide assessment and care to population that includes all ages.
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, and Power Point.
• Use of usual and customary equipment used to perform essential functions of the position.
Public Health Core Competencies for this Position
Public Health Sciences
• Describes the scientific foundation of the field of public health.
Analysis and Assessment
• Apply ethical data principles.
Leadership and Systems Thinking
• Contributes to continuous improvement of individual, program and organizational performance.
• Participate in and/or provides opportunities for professional development opportunities.
• Contributes to continuous improvement of individual, program and organizational performance.
Communication and Cultural Competency
• Communicate the roles of governmental public health and public health stakeholders as well as information to influence behavior and improve public health.
• Gather input from and facilitate communication among individuals, groups, organizations and local government to improve community health.
Financial Planning and Management
• Establishes teams for the purpose of achieving program and organizational goals.
• Motivates personnel for the purpose of achieving program and organization goals.
Training Requirements:
• N/A
Physical Requirements:
• Normal to heavy office work which includes the ability to lift up to 20 - 50 lbs.
• Regularly required to walk, stand, and sit for extended periods of time and use hands to operate computer keyboard, phone, and various office equipment.
• The work may require extensive driving between communities, and the ability to drive a car in all types of road conditions. It involves standing, bending, and walking within schools, clinics, and homes. Lifting and carrying is necessary to assist disabled patients in ambulation, to set up equipment (in specialty clinics) and audio-visual aids.
Cognitive Requirements:
• Reading, writing, calculating
• Above average social interaction skills
• Reasoning/Analysis
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as a team
• Works with minimal to no supervision
Language Requirements:
• Must possess the ability to read, write, and speak the English language fluently.
• Must be able to continually and effectively employ professional verbal and written communications skills.
Certificates, Licenses & Registrations:
• All applicants will comply with 45 CFR 1301, Subpart D, Section 1301.31, C and D, which require all prospective employees to sign a declaration prior to employment regarding all arrests and convictions of child abuse or violent felonies and to comply with PL 101-630 and PL 101-637 regarding criminal records check.

WCHS is an equal opportunity employer.
All applicants must comply with 45 CFR 1301, Subpart D, Section 1301.31 C and D, which require all prospective employees to sign a declaration prior to employment regarding all arrests and convictions of child abuse or violent felonies and comply with PL 101-630 and PL 101-637 regarding criminal records check. As provided by Federal Law, all qualified Native American and Veteran applicants shall receive preference over Non-Native American applicants. In the absence of qualified Native American applicants, consideration will be given to all other applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender orientation/identity, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, disability or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. WCHS participates in E-Verify.