Breastfeeding Peer Counselor (Grant Funded)

Essential Job Duties

WIC Unit: The position provides breastfeeding consultation and support to a caseload of prenatal and breastfeeding women and their families to help prevent, correct, and/or manage common breastfeeding problems and to increase breastfeeding exclusivity and duration; serves as a role mode; assesses breastfeeding mothers and infants based on established protocol; provides anticipatory guidance based on assessment; handles scheduled and unscheduled clinic and phone contacts to address breastfeeding problems; refers identified concerns and problems to the WIC program manager, nurse, nutritionist, or lactation consultant; issues breastfeeding supplies to enrolled participants in conjunction with the delivery of program services; documents and maintains records for daily logs of all client contacts, all breastfeeding education activities, and services provided to all clients; participates in WIC clinic and community activities. This position is grant funded.

Benefits

This position is not eligible for benefits.