Lactation Consultant
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- Location
- Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
- Work type
- Onsite
- Posted
- 3 weeks ago
- Apply on
- jobs.novanthealth.org
About this role
Join the Novant Health East Cooper Medical Center team as a Lactation Colsultant!
Location: East Cooper Medical Center
Address: 2000 Hospital Dr, Mt Pleasant, SC 29464
Schedule: 4 8-hour shifts starting by 8:30am. Weekend and holiday rotation required.
In this role, you will serve as the clinical expert in managing the breastfeeding mother-baby dyad. Your expertise will support families from normal newborn deliveries to complex neonatal and post-surgical feeding cases, ensuring an inclusive, empowering environment for all new parents.
- Education: High School Diploma or GED, required.
- 4 Year / Bachelors Degree, preferred. Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Experience: Minimum of one year of experience in mother/baby care or breast feeding education, required.
- Licensure/Certification: Current IBCLC certification, required.
- Current RN licensure in appropriate state, preferred.
- Additional Skills (required): Ability to successfully complete generic and department-specific skills validation and competency testing. Excellent customer service skills.
- Clinical Assessments: Conduct comprehensive lactation assessments by reviewing maternal/infant medical histories, evaluating milk transfer, observing latch/positioning, and monitoring infant weight patterns.
- Care Planning: Develop, implement, and document evidence-based, individualized feeding plans that address complex breastfeeding challenges.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Partner closely with floor RNs, Pediatricians, Obstetricians, and Neonatologists to ensure continuity of care and safe discharge planning.
Patient Education: Provide high-quality, culturally sensitive one-on-one bedside coaching, teach outpatient breastfeeding classes, and facilitate community support groups.
- Supply Management: Educate families on the proper selection, assembly, and sanitization of breast pumps, specialized feeding tools, and donor milk options.