Midwifery Early Scholar and Certified Nurse Midwife​/Certified Midwife Clinical Practice

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department:
University Nurse-Midwives (UNM) – Anschutz Medical Campus

Job Title:

Midwifery Early Scholar and Certified Nurse Midwife/Certified Midwife in the Clinical Practice Faculty Track

Position #:  – Requisition #: 37001

The University of Colorado College of Nursing is seeking a Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) or Certified Midwife (CM) for a year-long Midwifery Early Scholar position with its University Nurse-Midwives (UNM) faculty practice.

This full-time position (1.0 FTE, benefits-eligible) will primarily have clinical responsibilities and will hold a faculty appointment in the IRC‑Clinical Practice Faculty Track with dedicated time for a year to serve as the Midwifery Early Scholar. The University of Colorado, College of Nursing currently has four academic midwifery faculty practices and a midwifery education program. The primary practice site will be UNM located on the Anschutz Medical Campus, in Aurora, CO.

The Midwifery Early Scholar’s dedicated administrative time will support the individual’s practice, teaching, and leadership development goals and is dedicated to honor and support the importance of professional diversity.

The Midwifery Early Scholar is open to all CNM/CM applicants, with a focus on those who have an interest in working with and advocating for patients who have traditionally experienced barriers to accessing healthcare. This year‑long opportunity provides mentorship in academic midwifery faculty practices. Mentorship is provided by faculty from diverse backgrounds who can speak to their own professional challenges and successes.

The Early Scholar will co‑design their curriculum to match their professional goals (e.g., education, research, leadership) and will be matched with identified mentors across the Anschutz Medical Campus. The position includes dedicated clinical practice and teaching workload.

Work is performed independently under the direct supervision of the University Nurse‑Midwifery (UNM) Clinical Lead.

• Engage in and receive mentorship in the academic pillars: scholarship, service, research, clinical practice, and teaching.
• Focus on teaching and mentorship priorities by using dedicated time; 0.15 FTE will be dedicated to assigned teaching workload and 0.05 will be dedicated to mentorship.
• Work with two primary mentors. One mentor will primarily be responsible for midwifery clinical practice needs, and the other to support professional and intrapersonal goals with the identified focus. Both mentors’ primary job is to help ensure the Scholar’s sense of belonging within the college and the clinical practice.

• Provide full scope care to the gynecologic, antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum client.
• Provide care in the outpatient setting, Obstetrics Emergency Department, and Labor & Delivery unit.
• Utilize limited obstetric ultrasound skills in the outpatient and inpatient setting.
• Attend monthly practice meetings.
• Educate health care team learners (APPs, medical students, residents) and actively participate in student evaluations.
• Collaborate with health care teams across all practice settings supporting research and quality improvement initiatives.
• Perform work in a health care environment with some exposure to biological hazards and infectious disease.
• Actively participate in health plan contracts.
• Remain credentialed by the health plans and ensure credentialing materials stay current.

UNM works collaboratively within the obstetrics and gynecology department and offers many services including individualized care, group prenatal care, childbirth education, lactation services, behavioral health services, and referrals to specialty care with the University of Colorado and UCHealth systems. UNM provides full-scope midwifery care to individuals at the Anschutz Medical Campus and inpatient care to patients of STRIDE, a local Federally Qualified Health Center.

UNM believes that people benefit from personalized and comprehensive care that focuses on the individual while including the support…