New York - Staff Midwife

Fika Midwifery The Coit House birth center in Buffalo, New York

Description: Licensed midwives in the community birth setting care for clients during the course of prenatal, labor, postpartum, and newborn care. Additionally, midwives provide inclusive well-person care, comprehensive family planning services, support shared decision-making and physiologic birth, and participate in quality assurance functions in accordance with practice policies and accreditation standards as dictated by the Commission for Accreditation of Birth Centers. The full-time Staff Midwife will have two nine-hour office days and can expect to attend approximately 4 to 6 labors per month.  

Our birth center is committed to addressing inequities in healthcare for marginalized people-including but not limited to people of color and LGBTQAI+ people. Because we believe firmly these communities must be centered in the work we do, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or members of other marginalized communities to apply, even if they do not have experience providing care in the community birth setting. We value new graduate midwives and will offer appropriate compensation.

Benefits: Competitive benefits package includes health and dental insurance, 401(K) match, cell phone + mileage reimbursement, PTO, some paid holidays, and continuing ed stipend. Fika Midwifery is also an NHSC student loan repayment site. The amount varies but has been $50,000-$75,000 for two years of service in the past.

Qualifications: 

• NYS Midwifery license (can be obtained after acceptance)
• Background check
• Physical ability to carry birth equipment up and down stairs, clean up after birth, and squat, bend, and reach to accommodate the woman's chosen laboring positions
• Technical skills to perform basic charting functions 
• NRP certification
• CPR/BLS certification
• Belief in midwifery model of care, out of hospital birth, physiologic birth, and breastfeeding

Compensation: $85,000-$100,000+ 

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