Part Time Bilingual Breast Feeding Peer Counselor
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The Children's Home Society Of New Jersey
NJ
Summary
The counselor provides breastfeeding information and encouragement to WIC participants through telephone, home, and hospital visits. They are also responsible for maintaining accurate records, documenting nutrition education, and making appropriate referrals.
Job Description
Position/Classification: Part-Time Bilingual (English/Creole) Breast Feeding Peer Counselor
Program: Department of Health and Senior Services, WIC of Mercer County
Reports to: WIC Breastfeeding Supervisor
Location: 1440 Parkside Avenue Ewing, New Jersey 08638
Education Requirements: High School Diploma
Schedule: 21 Hours per Week - Flexible and Varied Work Schedule required
Some evening and weekend hours are required
Salary: $18.50 per hour
Benefits: PTO
This is a CWA Local 1040 position.
The Breastfeeding Peer Counselor provides basic breastfeeding information and encouragement to WIC pregnant and breastfeeding participants.
Experience Requirement: A peer counselor is a paraprofessional who has personal exclusive breastfeeding experience of at least six months, is enthusiastic about breastfeeding, has basic communication skills, has completed the “New Jersey WIC Services Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Training” with a grade of at least 80% on the final exam, and is able to model good parenting and breastfeeding skills. Ideally, a peer counselor is a present or former WIC participant who is from the community where she works and can speak the language of those she serves.
Experience:
- Knowledge of computers and relevant software applications
- Knowledge of customer service principles and practices
- Keyboard skills
Key Competencies
- Bilingual English/Creole (Written and Spoken)
- Professional personal presentation
- Customer service orientation
- Attention to detail
- Initiative
- Reliability
- Stress tolerance
Responsibilities:
- Facilitates or assists with breastfeeding group discussions for participants
- Provides basic breastfeeding information and support to pregnant and breastfeeding WIC participants by telephone, home visits, and/or hospital visits
- Makes routine periodic contacts with all clients assigned to her caseload
- Is available outside the usual 8 to 5 working hours to new mothers who are having breastfeeding problems
- Keeps accurate records of all contacts with WIC pregnant and breastfeeding women
- Documents in WIC ACCESS nutrition education contacts and communicates pertinent plan of care information via general notes
- Keeps client information strictly confidential
- Makes referrals according to established protocols to the CPA, lactation consultant, the mother’s physician, a public health program in the community, or a social service agency
- Attends monthly breastfeeding staff meetings and meetings of the local agency for which she provide breastfeeding services
The Children’s Home Society is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer M/F/D/V. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Varied
21 Hours per week
We save children’s lives and build healthy families. Founded in 1894, The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey is a nonprofit organization that helps at-risk infants, children, youth, and families achieve their potential. We protect abused or neglected infants and children, strengthen families, and strive for stable, permanent, and loving homes. CHSofNJ gives parents the knowledge they need to help their children and themselves long after our active services have ended.
There are many ways we help. We provide Adoption options, Birth parent counseling, Child abuse prevention and treatment, Child care services, Community and neighborhood-based services, Foster care, Pre- and post-natal services, School-based youth services, Child welfare services, Early childhood and parenting services.
We offer over 100 years of adoption experience.
Those services include domestic infant adoption, referrals to international placement agencies, home studies for families residing in New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania, applying for international and domestic adoption, placement for domestic adoption, and pre- and post-adoption support, including searches and reunions and background reports.
Founded
1894
Company size
201-500 employees
Industry
Individual and Family Services
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Trenton, NJ
We save children’s lives and build healthy families. Founded in 1894, The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey is a nonprofit organization that helps at-risk infants, children, youth, and families achieve their potential. We protect abused or neglected infants and children, strengthen families, and strive for stable, permanent, and loving homes. CHSofNJ gives parents the knowledge they need to help their children and themselves long after our active services have ended.
There are many ways we help. We provide Adoption options, Birth parent counseling, Child abuse prevention and treatment, Child care services, Community and neighborhood-based services, Foster care, Pre- and post-natal services, School-based youth services, Child welfare services, Early childhood and parenting services.
We offer over 100 years of adoption experience.
Those services include domestic infant adoption, referrals to international placement agencies, home studies for families residing in New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania, applying for international and domestic adoption, placement for domestic adoption, and pre- and post-adoption support, including searches and reunions and background reports.
Founded
1894
Company size
201-500 employees
Industry
Individual and Family Services
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Trenton, NJ
