Doula Navigator / Community Doula - Bilingual

Malama Health

Posted 3 months ago

Full Time

Columbus, Ohio

Hybrid

Smart Summary

Responsibilities

Deliver comprehensive care management and outreach to pregnant and postpartum mothers to improve health outcomes. Coordinate care services and referrals while utilizing technology to document and track patient progress.

Qualifications

You have 1-2 years of experience as a Community Health Worker, Community Doula, Case/Care Manager, or Social Worker, and are a certified birth doula or willing to complete training. You are adaptable, tech-savvy, fluent in English and at least one other specified language, and passionate about improving maternal health outcomes.

Must Have Skills for ATS

Google Workspace

Notion

Slack

Zoom

Motivational Interviewing

Trauma-Informed Care

Harm Reduction

CPR Training

Job Description

Malama leverages the best of technology and people to deliver exceptional care - we build novel biometric tracking and patient engagement tools that allow skilled Care Managers to provide high-touch care navigation and coordination for pregnant and postpartum mothers that improves health outcomes for mom and baby.

We’ve raised $9.2M in funding to date and are on target to hit profitability early this year. Our mission is to improve pregnancy-related outcomes beginning with conditions that disproportionately affect historically underserved groups.

We're seeking Community Health Worker or Community Doula to use our tools and serve our members as their Maternity Care Navigators. This role is pivotal in bridging the gap between our providers and patients, ensuring seamless execution of our policies and care protocols. If you're passionate about improving maternal health outcomes, closing equity gaps, and want to gain invaluable experience in care coordination, startup operations, and patient success, this position is for you.

Role Responsibilities:

  • Deliver Care Management to Meet Patient Needs - Conduct outreach, check-ins, and comprehensive assessments to identify and meet patient needs via phone calls, SMS, video calls, or in-person encounters (based on patient preference); Assist patients with appointment setting, office visits, social services application, among other requests
  • Coordinate Care Services and Referrals to Completion - Advocate for patient needs by coordinating with health plans, service providers, multi-disciplinary care teams to drive services to completion
  • Communicate to Empower Patient Learning - Utilize evidence-based practices like motivational interviewing, trauma-informed care, and harm reduction to engage with and communicate information to patients towards positive habit change
  • Utilize Technology to Document, Track, and Improve Services - Utilize required care management portals for all care coordination and other services provided in a timely manner; meet patient caseload targets and prioritize services according to intensity, need, and required follow-up.
  • 1-2 years of experience as a Community Health Worker, Community Doula, Case/Care Manager, Social Worker
  • Must be a certified birth doula prior to employment, or commit to completing Malama-sponsored doula training (training, attend 3 births, complete CPR training, etc) after onboarding and enroll in DHCS Medicaid
  • Reliable and responsive to text and calls! Adaptable and Excited to learn new technology - You are comfortable using Google Workspace (Sheets, Docs, Drive), Notion, Slack, Zoom, and want to learn more
  • A people's person and a team player - One of our key values is Be the Bridge. You are positive and empathetic serving members/clients and open and honest when providing internal feedback for improvement
  • Mission-driven, Impact-oriented - You are passionate about health, technology, and Malama's mission to improve maternal health outcomes and close equity gaps
  • You are fluent in English (written and verbal) and bilingual in Spanish, Arabic, Somali, Nepali, Swahili, Mandarin. Russian, Ukrainian, French, Hindi or Gujarati
  • Located in Ohio - preference for Franklin, Cuyahoga, Hamilton, Montgomery, Lucas, Summit counties
  • $25-$30 per hour starting rate
  • Flexible work hours to suit your needs
  • Opportunity to contribute to a fast-growing healthcare technology startup
  • Training and educational opportunities (including doula training sponsorship)
  • Applications reviewed on a rolling basis - apply early!
Equal opportunity

Malama is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage applications from recent graduates, early-career advocates, Black, Indigenous, Latina/x, and other women of color, people with lived experience of pregnancy, and community members. You do not need years of experience to apply — passion, community roots, and a commitment to birth equity matter most.

Malama Health

Malama Health is a Medicaid-first maternal health company building national infrastructure for continuous, doula-led care across pregnancy and the postpartum year. Malama's Doula-Care Navigator model integrates community-based doulas, remote patient monitoring, and managed care coordination into one connected system, meeting women where they are from prenatal care through the full postpartum year. Malama is in-network with Medicaid plans in California, Texas, and Colorado, and its platform has reached over 45,000 women across all fifty states, with reports touching 600+ clinics and hospitals including Stanford, UCSF, UCLA, and Tufts Medical Center. Across more than 2,300 patients, outcomes data show a 45% reduction in preterm birth rates and a 19% reduction in NICU admissions compared to standard of care. Learn more at heymalama.co.
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