Maternal Child Health Coordinator

Closing Date: April 24, 2025
$38.07 to $50.13 DOQ

Position Objective

Performs difficult work providing professional duties in the development and implementation of interventions to improve health outcomes for mothers and children, including coordinating family health programs, including but not limited to Family Home Visiting. This position may carry a caseload, performing nursing services.  Assists in implementation and the strategic direction of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) programs and services. Provide relevant information on emerging and on-going maternal child health (MCH) trends, identify health disparities, promote evidenced-based early interventions, coordinate and integrate MCH programs and services.  Assists in carrying out program operations, including intake and assignment to MCH staff. Motivates and guides a multidisciplinary team of professionals to deliver results.  Assist in development, implementation, proposals of grants deliverables with maternal child health focus.  Develops working relationships with internal/external partners.  Assist in evaluation of plans and services to monitor and assess the effects of MCH programs. Work is performed under the limited supervision of Family Health Supervisor.          Supervision may be exercised over assigned personnel.

Essential Functions

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Personnel

• Assists Family Health Supervisor
• Coordinates day to day operations of home visiting activities and other maternal child health services.
• Orients staff to agency programs, policies, and procedures.
• Provide ongoing program consultation to personnel as needed.
• Facilitate meetings as needed.
• Assist with developing and maintaining written training materials and providing training to staff.
• Provide 1:1 reflective practice with family home visiting staff as required by grant.
• May assist in interview process and professional development of staff members using clinical expertise and human relation skills.

   Assessment and Surveillance

• Assist with community assessment and identify health needs.
• Assist with development and evaluation of Community Health Plan
• Ability to collect, access, analyze, interpret, and use data from a variety of sources including granular data and data disaggregated by geography (e.g., census tract, zip code), sub-populations, race, ethnicity, and other variables that fully describe the health and well-being of a community and the factors that influence health as related to MCH.

• Participate in or support surveillance systems to rapidly detect emerging health issues and threats.

Perform Communication Activities

• Select and recommend to the client an internal/external resource that will provide appropriate services.
• Document client services per policy.
• Effectively use social media to communicate directly with community members.
• Appropriately tailor communications and communications mechanisms for various audiences

Public Health Nursing Services

• Performs professional public health nursing services focusing on prevention including family planning, maternal & child health, adult health, sexually transmitted disease, preparedness, communicable and infectious disease, and other community health needs.
• Conduct nursing assessment(s)
• Implement evidence-based programming.
• Collect or test specimens.
• Develop, coordinate, and implement care plans.

Partnership

• Ensure community members, including those most affected by health inequities and those with lived experience, are engaged.

• Engage community partnership to build the community's health promotion capacity and strengthen systems that support community health and health policy.
• Identifies gaps in the community for partnerships to address health needs in relation to maternal child health needs.
• Convene cross-sector and public health partners to identify strategies or initiatives for non-governmental partners to implement to address maternal and child issues.
• Collaborate with partners, communities, and individuals to co-create strategies for addressing gaps in availability and barriers to accessing maternal and child services.

 Health Education

• Collaborate with and educate partners, communities, and individuals on maternal and child health and the factors that impact health.

• Provides guidance on population health, ensuring foundational duties in relation to Maternal Child Health.
• Determine educational needs of clients.
• Provide instruction for Antepartum, Postpartum, Parenting, Family Planning, and STD/STI and other maternal child health education needs.

Administrative Activities and Program Implementation

• Assist in establishing, maintaining, and developing basic public health policy recommendations that are evidence-based, regarding maternal child health issues.
• Develop, maintain and share information systems for prevention and population health.
• Collect, analyze and validate data and findings related to maternal child health.
• Run reports from electronic health record (EHR)
• Monitor the impact of changing state and federal laws on public health.
• Assist with identification and development of grants.
• Assist in grant duty implementation, evaluation and reporting.
• effectively advocate for policies that address social determinants of health, health disparities and equity in relation to maternal child health.
• Establish metrics and monitor quality of prevention and population health improvement activities.
• Provide education and technical assistance to organizations involved in preventing harm and improving health.
• Participate in Case Review, staff meetings, etc.
• Attend MCH Coordinators Regional meetings.
• Attend MECSH meetings.
• Responsible for client intake, case referrals and staff assignment in a timely and appropriate process.
• Plans, implements and evaluates all MCH programs related to MCH services. Utilizes evidence-based practices where applicable.
• Assesses, develops, implements, and monitors policies, guidelines, and procedures pertaining to MCH services and programs.
• Develops, maintains, and interprets standards for the provision of nursing and support services to assist with organizational planning.
• Organize, conduct and/or attend MCH team meetings; assigns cases to team members, carries a caseload of their own, and provides work direction to team members. Problem solves for home visitors individually and/or in groups concerning clients, programs, and grant direction and through reflective practice.
• Provides direction to the development and implementation of clinical and/or other documentation in the electronic software system.
• Promotes and maintains quality assurance through the preparation and analysis of reports on outcomes.
• May assist in assuring newborn screenings are completed and follow-up by reporting, connections to clinical care and early interventions services to infants with newborn screening disorders.
• Conducts periodic workload of caseloads for equal distribution.
• Conducts routine case review for quality assurance.

Miscellaneous Duties

• Conduct or attend meetings, seminars, and special functions.
• Report, new program/service or department/function announcement, procedural changes.
• Participate in Training and/or education programs as assigned.
• Participate in department wide work such as Public Health accreditation, strategic planning, and other required assessments for state/county/local programs (i.e., ECS, wellness).
• Participates with public health emergency response functions as trained and assigned within the department’s emergency response plan.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Demonstrates adherence to miscellaneous County and HHS Department policies.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Thorough knowledge of the application of nursing practices and public health nursing theory.
• Ability to apply principles of public health to communities, families, and individuals and to provide skilled nursing care to clients.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with clients, agency staff members, other agency professional representatives and the public.
• Ability to apply previously acquired knowledge and skills to new situations.
• Ability to monitor and direct the work of others.
• Ability to communicate effectively and make independent decisions.
• Ability to assess nursing needs and to develop and carry out nursing care plans.
• Ability to work with young families requiring Antepartum, Postpartum and Parenting visits which includes Family Planning education.
• Employee must have demonstrated ability to work effectively and efficiently in a wide variety of computer programs and systems.
• Must be able to maintain positive working relationship with County Attorney, County Administration, Department Administrative team, and other county and community committees, State offices of the State of Minnesota for miscellaneous programs.
• Demonstrates adherence to and knowledge of HIPAA and Data Practices in work assignment.

Desired Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in nursing (PHN certification required) and 1 year in maternal child health related field. 

Special Qualifications

Current Minnesota Registered Nurse License

Certification as PHN

Current BLS certification

Tools and Equipment Used

Blood pressure cuff, stethoscope, infant and adult scales, syringes, computer, telephone, copier, motor vehicle.

Working Conditions

The characteristics listed below are representative of the physical demands, physical agility, sensory requirements, and environmental exposures required by an individual to successfully perform the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• This classification regularly involves physical agility requirements such as: climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, pushing, pulling, repetitive motions and manual dexterity.
• The noise level can range from moderately quiet in the office to loud and noisy in the field.

Applicants for appointment to this position will be required to submit a formal application and may be subject to rating of education and experience, oral interview and/or reference check, background investigation, criminal history check, drug testing.  Job related tests may be required of any applicant.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed.  The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.

This job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee as is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.

Salary : $38 - $50