UNIV - Part - time Doula - Psychiatry: Women's Reproductive Behavioral Health

Part-Time Doula - Psychiatry: Women's Reproductive Behavioral Health

This position is assigned to the Women's Reproductive Behavioral Health (WRBH) Division of MUSC. Peer Recovery Doulas provide non-clinical services intended to aid pregnant and postpartum patients in establishing recovery from substance use disorders. The individual will work as part of the WRBH team as a community health worker to provide peer support and recovery-focused prenatal, labor and postpartum support for perinatal women and their babies. This Peer Recovery Doula position will primarily provide hospital-based support to patients presenting for delivery at Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital, participating as an (non-clinical) integral member of multidisciplinary care team, the Perinatal Opioid Collaborative, that coordinates specialized care and support for pregnant patients with perinatal opioid use disorder. The candidate will provide prenatal education, labor and delivery support and postpartum follow up, as well as facilitate coordination, promote successful linkage to perinatal mental health and substance use treatment and provide a warm hand-off to community resources and treatment providers. The Peer Recovery Doula will also serve as a patient advocate for individuals they are serving and integrate with hospital staff to reduce stigma. While establishing a trusting relationship with mothers, the candidate will promote healthy pregnancies, breastfeeding, and parent-infant attachment.

The community-based doula is an integral member of the overall ReBIRTHed program (housed within WRBH Division at MUSC). The doula is a community health worker from the same community as the targeted population. A Peer Recovery Doula has lived experience of perinatal substance use disorder and is dual certified as a peer support specialist and community doula. She will provide culturally sensitive support and serve as a role model for individuals with perinatal substance use disorders.