Lactation Consultant: Clinical Education Leader

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The Lactation Consultant role at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare provides advanced knowledge and leadership on lactation concerns, delivering direct and indirect patient care and collaborating with the care team to design population-based programs that improve outcomes.

Join a mission-driven system in Memphis that values compassionate service, professional growth, and excellence in patient care, with opportunities to educate staff and lead initiatives across departments.

Qualifications

• Required - Associates Degree Nursing.
• Preferred - Bachelor's Degree Dietetics.
• Preferred - Bachelor's Degree Nursing.

Responsibilities

• Provides advanced level of direct and indirect care to individual patients/families and/or groups of patients/families as related to lactation.
• Provides leadership and collaborates with other health professionals in regard to lactation, and develops educational resources for staff education programs which addresses the specific needs of populations of patients.
• Demonstrates collaborative leadership with researchers, other health professionals, divisions, and departments to generate knowledge and make practice changes based on research findings, as well as, the results of the organizational and departmental quality improvement processes.
• Provides leadership in meeting system, organizational, division, and departmental goals.
• Demonstrates accountability for professional responsibilities and self-development.

Skills

Lactation management

Leadership

Effective communication

Staff education

Education

Associates Degree Nursing

Bachelor's Degree Dietetics

Bachelor's Degree Nursing

Job description

The Lactation Consultant role at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare provides advanced knowledge and leadership on lactation concerns, delivering direct and indirect patient care and collaborating with the care team to design population-based programs that improve outcomes.

Join a mission-driven system in Memphis that values compassionate service, professional growth, and excellence in patient care, with opportunities to educate staff and lead initiatives across departments.