Lactation Consultant

Canyon Vista Medical Center in Sierra Vista AZ

Lactation Consultant 

Job Type: PRN | Varied

Schedule: 12 Hour Shifts

Your experience matters

Canyon Vista Medical Center is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. As a Lacation Consultant joining our team, you're embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier ^®. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

More about our team

Canyon Vista Medical Center 106 bed acute care hospital that strives to offer exceptional care to the Sierra Vista community. We are proud of our commitment to compassionate, high-quality care that supports women and babies before, during, and after delivery. 

How you'll contribute

A Lacation Consultant who excels in this role: 

• Teaches, coaches, supports, and mentors nursing staff and other healthcare learners to promote evidence-based clinical practice, and support breastfeeding skills to mother-infant dyad. 

• Serves as a consultant to nursing, members of the healthcare community, and to the larger community in areas of lactation. 

• Understands the diverse cultural, physical, emotional, and psychological response to birthing, lactation, and parenting.

• Assesses local community's need for breastfeeding education, and participates/teaches in programs to address identified needs as appropriate.

• Uses current lactation theories and research to develop evidence-based feeding plans that address individual feeding issues, such as nutritional requirements, while respecting the family's breastfeeding goals. 

• Participates in the development, implementation, and evaluation of standards of practice, guidelines, policies, procedures, and protocols within area of lactation.

• Participates in the design, implementation and evaluation of programs and projects in lactation and breastfeeding to meet goals and objectives of the organization and department.

• Participates in interdisciplinary performance improvement and clinical research to promote evidence-based lactation services and to improve clinical outcomes.

• Provides lactation support and services to new mothers and infants.

Why join us

We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:

• Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What we're looking for 

• Bachelor's degree preferred

• Licenses: Current RN License- Preferred 

• Certifications: Basic Life Support (BLS); International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE) 

• 3 years of experience in Mother/Baby/Nursery environment

• Education experience in clinical and/or classroom setting 

• Updates skills and knowledge by attaining 15 contact hours annually and provides documentation of completion.

• Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action. 

The Lactation Consultant plans, implements, monitors, and evaluates the Lactation Program and services offered. The Lactation Consultant serves as a resource to staff and patients. Collaborates with healthcare team members to provide patient, staff and community education and support. Assesses patient condition including physical, psychosocial and age-specific needs related to lactation. Provides direct instructions, interventions, and support in resolving patient breast feeding issues. Assists health care team in maintaining current knowledge base and competency with breast feeding.

In the execution of job duties, it is the universal expectation that all tasks are performed with a patient centered focus, while also seeking opportunities to continually improve core processes. Incumbent will be scheduled based on operational need, which may include but is not limited to: holidays, extended shifts, night and/or weekend shifts, standby and/or on-call. This job description is only meant to be a representative summary of the major responsibilities and accountabilities performed by the incumbents of this job. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

More about Canyon Vista Medical Center

Located in the beautiful high desert of southeastern Arizona, Canyon Vista Medical Center commits to serve residents in Sierra Vista, Ft. Huachuca, Cochise County - a population of more than 131,000 people, and our surrounding communities. We're comfortably nestled in the San Pedro River Valley, 75 miles southeast of Tucson.

Canyon Vista Medical Center was founded in 1963 as Western Baptist Osteopathic Hospital on what was then the eastern edge of Sierra Vista. Growth and advancing technology dictated building the 177,000 square foot hospital at 5700 E Hwy 90 

Completed in 2015, our facility offers:

• Emergency Services with a Level III Trauma Unit
• Women Services
• Birthing Suites
• Level I Nursery
• Bone & Joint Institute Center of Excellence for Total Joint Replacement
• Intensive / Progressive / Acute Care
• Cardiac Catheterization Lab
• Surgical Services / Outpatient Surgery Center
• Adult Psychiatric Unit
• Advanced Diagnostic Imaging to include 3D Mammography
• Laboratory Services
• Rehabilitation Services
• Two Helicopter Pads
• Wound Care

EEOC Statement

"Canyon Vista Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Canyon Vista Medical Center is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment." 

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.