Certified Nurse Midwife, Obstetrics & Gynecology at Mass General Brigham

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The Mass General Brigham Medical Group is a system-led operating entity formed by Mass General Brigham to deliver high quality, low cost, innovative community-based ambulatory care. This work stems from Mass General Brigham’s unified system strategy to bring health care closer to patients while lowering total health care costs. The Medical Group provides a wide range of offerings, including primary care, specialty care, behavioral and mental health, and urgent care, both digitally as well as at physical locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. The group also offers outpatient surgery and endoscopy, imaging, cardiac testing, and infusion. We share the commitment to delivering a coordinated and comprehensive experience across all locations, ensuring the appropriate level of care is available to every patient across our care delivery sites.

The Center for Women’s Health & Wellness brings together OB/GYN physicians and midwives with specialists in maternal fetal medicine and genetic testing. Through our affiliation with Wentworth-Douglass Hospital and Mass General Brigham our patients also benefit from state-of-the-art care in breast health, cancer care and more. The Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Center for Women’s Health & Wellness offers a new model for women’s healthcare on the Seacoast. Inpatient care consists of two Certified Nurse Midwives per shift who work together to provide primary coverage of the Women and Children's unit, with an in-house OB/GYN physician present at all times for consultation, collaboration, or transfer of care when clinically indicated. The unit is also staffed with 24/7 in-house NICU and anesthesia providers. Our spacious and comfortable Birth Center welcomes more than 1,700 babies each year, making us the most popular center on the Seacoast. Private rooms offer mom, baby and family all the comforts of home, while facilitating education of the whole family by our nurses on caring for a new baby and postpartum care.

We are seeking a full-time, 40-hour Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) to support our inpatient and outpatient clinic teams. Weekly schedules consist of 36 hours of clinical, patient-facing time and 4 hours of administrative time. The CNM will split their time between the hospital in the antepartum, delivery, and postpartum units and at the outpatient OB/GYN clinic. Our inpatient services are offered at the Wentworth-Douglass Hospital main campus. The inpatient component of this role is rotating shifts – day and night. Our outpatient clinic is located at 67 Corporate Drive Portsmouth, NH 03801. The office is open Monday through Friday from 8:00am to 5:00pm.

We anticipate that the CNM’s weekly schedule will be as follows:

• (1) 12-hour inpatient shifts from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM (day shift) or 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM (night shift)
• (3) shifts in the outpatient clinic – (3) 8-hour shifts
• Our weekend rotation is approximately (1-2) 12-hour shifts per month consisting of some combination of Friday PM, Saturday AM/PM, or Sunday AM/PM hospital coverage.
• Holidays are tracked and evenly distributed from year to year

Job Summary

Responsible for safe and personalized care to patients in the antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and routine GYN settings.

Essential Functions
Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and/or newborn care to patients.

Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.

Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information.

Provide patients with direct family planning services, such as inserting intrauterine devices, dispensing oral contraceptives, and fitting cervical barriers, including cervical caps or diaphragms.

Prescribe medications as permitted by state regulations.

Develop and implement individualized plans for health care management.

Explain procedures to patients, family members, staff members, or others.

Order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests.

Required for All Jobs:

Performs other duties as assigned

Complies with all policies and standards

Does this position require Patient Care (indirect/direct)? Yes

Qualifications Education

Master's Degree Nursing required:

Can this role accept experience in lieu of a degree? No

Licenses and Credentials

Midwife, Certified Nurse State License required

Experience

Minimum of two years of experience as a Nurse Midwife is required to be a Midwife II 2-3 years required

Additional Job Details (if applicable)

• Open to all experience levels

• Applicants must be certified in electronic fetal monitoring by the National Certification Corporation (NCC) or be willing to obtain within 1 year of hire

• Applicants are required to have completed 20 vaginal births in the past 12 months

• Applicants must be experienced first-assisting with Caesareans or will be required to complete an additional course upon hire

Remote Type

Onsite

Work Location

15 Old Rollinsford Road

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Employee Type

Regular

Work Shift

Rotating (United States of America)

Pay Range

$130,249.60 - $190,278.40/Annual

Grade

8

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EEO Statement:

1812 Wentworth-Douglass Physician Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veteran’s Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact Human Resources at (857)-282-7642.

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