Faculty, Certified Nurse Midwife

UPMC Horizon is looking to add a fourth full-scope certified nurse midwife to join an established midwifery practice in a community hospital setting with 24/7 inhouse physician collaboration.

Birth Place at UPMC Horizon

Faculty, Certified Nurse Midwife (Full-Scope)
Primary Responsibilities:
• Midwife shall be available to perform clinical and administrative services, on average, forty-eight (48) hours per week, including performance of clinical services during a full day office schedule, day call, night and weekend call.
• Midwife will be available for participation in clinical meetings, patient orientation sessions and administrative needs of the midwifery service.
• Full compliance with timely and accurate completion of charts and associated clinical documentation.
• Midwife shall participate in community education, outreach activities, and activities to promote midwifery as mutually agreed upon by UPP and Midwife.
• Participate in all Annual Training Requirements for Midwives/Faculty as may be established, for both UPP and SOM.
• Full compliance with the UPP Compliance Plan annual training requirements and all internal and compliance audits (i.e., Departmental and Corporate).
• Provision of all information, as requested, necessary for divisional and departmental budgeting in a timely manner.
• OSHA, Patient Safety, Bio-Terrorism Training (and any others as mandated by Corporate during the course of the fiscal year).
• Maintain current Pennsylvania midwifery license, prescriptive authority certificate and nursing license, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) certificate, Medicare & other third party payer provider number(s) as deemed necessary by UPP. Maintain an active ACNM certificate.
• Completion of the SOM/UPP Annual Faculty Performance Evaluation within established time frame and maintaining a minimum overall rating of Satisfactory.
• Meet State Boards of Medicine and Nursing CME requirements as well as American Midwifery Certification Board requirements

Schedule
• 8, 12 and 24 hours shifts
• Days, nights and weekends (rotating)