Washington, DC | Hybrid | $60K - $65K | Washington Post Top Workplace (8x Winner)  

Community of Hope is seeking a dedicated and compassionate Doula to provide culturally competent and patient-centered doula care.  As a Doula, you'll support and empower families throughout the pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey by providing education, advocacy, and continuous emotional and physical support.  This position is located at our Family Health and Birth Center in NE, Washington, DC.

Our Approach and Values

We celebrate people’s strengths and acknowledge the impact of trauma on people’s lives.   

We embrace diversity, welcome all voices, and treat everyone with respect and compassion. 

We lead and advocate for changes to make systems more equitable. 

We strive for excellence and value integrity in all that we do.

What You'll Do

• Provides ongoing health, childbirth, and newborn education to increase preparedness and confidence of birthing person and support system and increase safety during perinatal period and newborn stages.  
• Identifies patients who are interested in doula support/services and ensures that data is accurately updated in eClinical Works (eCW) and other tracking systems, as well as communicated to Midwives and COH staff.
• Closely monitors a caseload of 10-20 patients at various stages of pregnancy and complexity as identified via their medical and social needs using the Perinatal Care Coordination Tiered systems for assessing risk factors. 
• Orients all referred patients to doula services, ensuring the completion of doula services intake materials and care plans within 10 business days of referral and within 5 business days for urgent referrals. Orients all referred perinatal patients of COH intrapartum support--provides education on birthing options and locations, policies that impact doula supports, warning signs, and Midwife on Call line. 
• Offers three doula prenatal visits, labor support, postpartum visit(s), and supporting accompaniment to prenatal medical appointments to all referred patients who have completed their intake.  Provides 100% of agreed upon services in care plan for all assigned, eligible patients. 
• Provides ongoing general resource and programming connection to patients as needed.  Reports identified barriers to care and social well-being to the care team.  Escalates patients of concern to supervisor with appropriate urgency.
• Attends Centering Pregnancy sessions to meet patients, provide information about doula support, and encourage utilization of services.  

Must-Haves

• Certification as a Birth Doula by DONA, CAPPA, ALACE or other Medicaid approved doula training program.  
• Current adult and child CPR certification (ACLS or BLS for the Healthcare Provider or equivalent).
• BLS Certificate.
• Minimum High School diploma. 
• Demonstrated experience in providing labor support and attending births in the role of a Doula at hospital and/or birthing center births. 
• Demonstrated knowledge of prenatal education, childbirth education, breastfeeding, labor comfort measures, newborn care and managing the postpartum period.   
• Demonstrated knowledge of maternal health disparities and the impact of doula services.   
• Willingness to be on-call to provide labor support to patients. 
• Available to work weekends and nights as needed.  
• Ability to travel to various COH locations and patients’ homes as needed which requires the maintenance of safety sensitive status and reliable transportation.  
• Proof of vaccinations is required.  COH will consider requests for reasonable accommodations for anyone who cannot be vaccinated for a religious or medical reason, subject to applicable law.

Nice-to-Haves

• Associates or Bachelor’s degree in social work, nursing, public health or similar discipline.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong organization and communication skills.
• Ability to work with computers and spreadsheets.

Why You'll Love Working Here!  

At COH, we prioritize the following well-being and work-life balance-centered benefits:

• 8 x Washington Post 150 Top Workplaces winner.
• 8-hour workdays with paid lunch.
• 3 weeks vacation (additional week after two years), 2 weeks sick leave, + 11.5 paid holidays and one personal floating holiday on an annual basis.
• Annual performance-based raises, up to 5% of your annual pay.
• Tuition reimbursement & loan repayment (NHSC & DCHPLRP), Licensing reimbursement & CEU funding.
• Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance + 403(b) retirement.
• Leadership development, internal promotions and career growth opportunities.
• A culture grounded in equity, compassion, and well-being.

About Us

Community of Hope is a mission-driven, innovative, rapidly growing nonprofit, and Federally Qualified Health Center. For over 45 years, we have provided health and housing services, perinatal care coordination, and community support services to make Washington, DC more equitable. Community of Hope also strongly emphasizes maternal and child health, with midwifery practice and the only free-standing birth center in DC. We are honored to be one of DC’s largest providers of housing and homelessness prevention services for families and individuals throughout DC. Through our Family Success Center, our WIC nutrition centers, and our various partnerships, we have reached hundreds and believe that everyone in DC deserves to be healthy, housed, and hopeful. With the help of our amazing staff, we have successfully provided:

• 50,000+ medical visits
• 6,300+ dental visits
• 17,000+ emotional wellness visits
• 1,384 families and 220 individuals with housing/homelessness prevention services

Ready to bring hope and health to our DC community? Apply today! To request a reasonable accommodation to complete an employment application or for general questions about employment with Community of Hope, contact a Recruiting Coordinator. Email: hr@cohdc.org Phone: 202-407-7747. Community of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.