Bridges Coordinator - Womens and Childrens Services - Days - FT - Orange

University of California - Irvine Health; Orange (CA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

University of California - Irvine Health is seeking a Bridges Coordinator to oversee newborn family screening and risk assessment using the Bridges Maternal Child Health Screening Tool. This role ensures prescreening, eligibility, and timely referrals to home visiting programs, while maintaining data accuracy and HIPAA compliance.

You will educate staff on workflows, coordinate with nurses, social workers, physicians, lactation consultants, and community partners, and manage educational

Qualifications

• 2+ years of data science research or related work experience.
• Strong interpersonal communication and cultural responsiveness.
• Ability to work possible weekend and evening hours.
• Nonjudgmental, harm-reduction approach to assisting patients with SUD.
• Experience with electronic documentation, reporting systems, and data tracking.
• Proficient with electronic health records and standard office software; willingness to learn internal systems.
• Ability to represent UC Irvine Health externally.
• Ability to analyze complex matters and take initiative.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate newborn family screening and risk assessment using Bridges Tool.
• Ensure prescreening, eligibility determinations, and timely referrals to enhanced services (e.g., home visiting programs).
• Maintain documentation and data entry meeting program timelines and data integrity standards.
• Provide non-clinical bedside education and information on community resources.
• Manage inventory and distribution of Kits for New Parents.
• Ensure HIPAA and information-sharing compliance.
• Collaborate with nursing, case management, social work, physicians, lactation consultants, and community partners to support care transitions.
• Educate hospital staff on program workflows and resources; monitor contract compliance and outcomes.

Skills

Interpersonal communication

Cultural responsiveness

Evening/weekend availability

Harm-reduction approach

Data science experience

Adaptability in clinical settings

Electronic documentation

EHR familiarity

External representation

Analytical initiative

Tools

EHR systems

Microsoft Office

Data tracking tools

Job description

Who We Are

UCI Health is one of California's largest academic health systems and the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine. Established on July 1, 1976, UCI Health has grown into a 1,461-bed health system that includes UCI Health - Orange, UCI Health - Irvine, four Community Network hospitals and a growing network of ambulatory care centers across Orange and Los Angeles counties.

As Orange County's only academic health systems, UCI Health is home to the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center based in the county, the region's only American College of Surgeons-verified Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center, American College of Emergency Physicians Gold Level 1 Geriatric Emergency Department and a nationally recognized regional burn center verified by the American Burn Association. Powered by UC Irvine, UCI Health serves 5.6 million people across Orange County, western Riverside County and southeast Los Angeles County through excellence in patient care, research and medical education.

Your Role on the Team

Position Summary

The Bridges Coordinator is responsible for the comprehensive coordination and oversight of newborn family screening and risk assessment within the assigned facility, utilizing the Bridges Maternal Child Health Screening Tool to identify families who may benefit from additional support services. The incumbent maintains accountability for the completion of prescreening, eligibility determination, and timely referral to enhanced services, including home visitation programs and CalWORKs Home Visiting Program, ensuring all documentation and data entry meets program timelines and data integrity standards. This role provides non-clinical bedside education and support to postpartum families, addressing available community resources for breastfeeding, immunizations, newborn care and postpartum wellbeing, while identifying and facilitating referrals for families with social, developmental, behavioral health, or psychosocial risk factors. The Coordinator manages inventory and distribution of educational materials and Kits for New Parents, ensures compliance with data privacy, HIPAA, consent, and information-sharing requirements, and serves as the hospital's liaison with First 5 Orange County / Bridges program leadership, participating in meetings, audits, training, and program improvement initiatives. The incumbent collaborates closely with nursing, case management, social work, physicians, lactation consultants, and community partners to support seamless care transitions, educates hospital coworkers on program workflows and resources, and monitors program performance metrics to ensure contract compliance and successful achievement of outcomes. This position exercises independent judgment in integrating screening and referral processes into routine, non-clinical maternal-child operations and supports regulatory compliance activities as needed.

What It Takes to be Successful

Required Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to engage patients respectfully and in culturally responsive ways.
• Skill to communicate and interact effectively and pleasantly with colleagues, faculty, students, and community leaders, from multiple cultures.
• Possible weekend and evening hours
• Nonjudgmental, energetic, positive, harm-reduction approach to assisting patients with SUD with respect for patient confidentiality and privacy.
• Greater than 2 years of data science research and/or work experience.
• Flexibility, adaptability, and resilience in a clinical setting with shifting priorities.
• Experience with electronic documentation, reporting systems, and data tracking
• Demonstrated skill in data management and analysisBroad knowledge of patient experience concepts and industry trends
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment of rapidly changing priorities and frequent interruptions.
• Ability to use electronic health records and standard office software (e.g., Microsoft Office, Outlook); willingness to learn internal data and documentation systems.
• Ability to successfully represent UC Irvine Health to the external community
• Ability to analyze and take action on complex matters, documents, and tasks. Ability to take the initiative and independently respond to requests in writing, in person, or over telephone.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong documentation skills, including data entry, file organization, and written communication.
• Strong communication, teaching, interdisciplinary collaboration, and relationship-building skills
• Knowledge of community resource navigation, perinatal mental health, and family support services
• Experience in community collaboratives and marketing in the health care arena
• Ability to communicate in languages spoken in the local community is a plus.

Total Rewards

We offer a wealth of benefits to make working at UCI even more rewarding. These benefits may include medical insurance, sick and vacation time, retirement savings plans, and access to a number of discounts and perks. Please utilize the links listed here to learn more about our compensation practices and benefits.

Conditions of Employment

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) seeks to provide a safe and healthy environment for the entire UCI community. As part of this commitment, all applicants who accept an offer of employment must comply with the following conditions of employment:

• Background Check and Live Scan
• Employment Misconduct*
• Legal Right to Work in the United States
• Vaccination Policies
• Smoking and Tobacco Policy
• Drug Free Environment

*Misconduct Disclosure Requirement: As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.

The following additional conditions may apply, some of which are dependent upon business unit or job specific requirements.

• California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act
• E-Verify
• Pre-Placement Health Evaluation

Details of each policy may be reviewed by visiting the following page: https://hr.uci.edu/new-hire/conditions-of-employment.php

Closing Statement

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC Anti-Discrimination Policy.

We are committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce along with honoring unique experiences, perspectives, and identities. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable, and welcoming.

UCI provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities upon request. For more information, please contact UCI's Employee Experience Center (EEC) at [e-mail] or at [phone], Monday - Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Consideration for Work Authorization Sponsorship

Must be able to provide proof of work authorization