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Lactation Consultant

LOCATION: Boardman, Ohio

CATEGORY: nursing

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Overview

At Akron Children’s, careers in nursing feel different. You make an impact on a daily basis, face-to-face, on children and their families. You do much more than treat patients. As the individual your patients come to recognize, rely on and smile at, you go beyond the title of nurse. Because this is more than a job. It’s what you were meant to do.

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Job Description

Job Requisition Number 30115

Full Time 40 hours/week
dayshift
onsite

Summary:
The Lactation Consultant is responsible for assessment, planning, education, and discharge planning for lactation counseling. 

Responsibilities:

  1. Responsible for assessment, planning, education, and discharge planning for lactation counseling.
  2. Acts as resource person for staff for specialty area.
  3. Counsels lactating mothers on an inpatient basis and outpatient basis for Akron Children's Hospital Lactation Counseling Center.
  4. Responsible for identifying pre-natal care, lactation counseling, and infant care education/support group needs in the community and for assisting with the Center's program development and program implementation in these areas.
  5. Other duties as required.

Other information:

Technical Expertise

  1. Experience in counseling lactating mothers is required.
  2. Experience in developing new programs is preferred.
  3. Experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams is preferred.
  4. Experience working with all levels within an organization is required.
  5. Experience in healthcare is preferred.
  6. Proficiency in MS Office [Outlook, Excel, Word] or similar software is required. EPIC software is preferred.

Education and Experience

  1. Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is required or must be obtained within 5 years from date of hire.
  2. Certification:
    • Registered Nurse licensure is required.
    • Current Health Care Provider BLS training from the American Heart Association is required.
    • International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant is required
  3. Years of relevant experience: 3 to 5 years is required.
  4. Years of experience supervising: None

Will consider candidates with the Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) certification upon hire with successful completion of IBCLC (International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant) certification within

Full Time

FTE: 1.000000


Status: Onsite


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Grow Your Career with Akron Children’s

Here at Akron Children's, we offer many ways for our nurses to succeed and grow professionally. There are multiple ways to grow your nursing career into areas such as leadership, education/professional development, advanced practice, informatics, research, quality, and more.

Benefits

Benefits for Akron Children’s team members go far beyond their compensation. Our comprehensive benefits program offers coverage, connections and resources that enable you to live your best life while growing your career.

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    Recognition

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  • To treat every child as we would our own.

  • To treat others as they would like to be treated.

  • To turn no child away.

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