WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor - Pediatrics WIC

What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.

The WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor helps mothers meet their personal breastfeeding goals. As a WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor, you have the unique opportunity to promote and encourage breastfeeding, and provide breastfeeding resources and breastfeeding education to change perceptions and improve health outcomes.

It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:

• 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
• The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
• Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
• Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!

As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as ...

• Free financial and legal counseling
• Free mental health counseling services
• Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
• Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
• Resources for child and elder care
• Plus many more!

Promotes and encourages breastfeeding through individual counseling and/or teaching classes.

• Provide pregnant and breastfeeding women with evidence-based breastfeeding information and support and assist in developing individualized breastfeeding goals and strategies, when appropriate.
• Instructs women on the techniques for positioning and latch-on, ensuring adequate intake of breast milk by the baby, and common problems that arise during breastfeeding.
• Makes follow-up phone calls to pregnant or breastfeeding WIC participants to answer questions or ensure positive outcomes to breastfeeding problems.
  
  Makes follow-up phone calls to pregnant or breastfeeding WIC participants to answer questions or ensure positive outcomes to breastfeeding problems.
• Teaches classes on breastfeeding for pregnant and breastfeeding women on the WIC program.
• Properly documents all encounters with mother.
• Makes appropriate referrals to a lactation consultant and/or health care provider following referral protocol.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• None
• Currently breast feeding or has breastfed or expressed breast milk for at least one baby.
• Have the ability to work outside of regular clinic hours and outside of the WIC clinic.
• Bilingual in Spanish is preferred.
• Are from the target population and can be trained to be a paraprofessional.

High School Diploma or equivalent required

1 Year Of Work Experience Required

Exerts up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds frequently and/or a negligible amount constantly to move objects.

This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code

• 51.215 and Texas Government Code
• 411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code
• 117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position. Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure.
  
  A foreign adversary is a nation listed in 15 C.F.R.
• 791.4. Residency Requirement:

Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.