Milk Bank Technician

Texas Children's Hospital; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children's Hospital in Houston is seeking a Milk Bank Technician to store, prepare and deliver mother’s milk and donor milk to hospitalized infants, following physician orders and hospital policies.

You will document milk inventory, maintain records, coordinate with parents and care teams, and participate in milk bank quality initiatives. A healthcare background and milk handling experience are preferred.

Qualifications

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent.
• 6 months healthcare-related work experience.
• Associate or bachelor's degree can substitute for 6 months experience.

Responsibilities

• Accurately weighs, measures, and prepares mother’s own and/or pasteurized donor milk for infant feeding per orders.
• Uses sanitary techniques to prepare and store human milk.
• Documents and delivers properly labeled milk to the appropriate patient care area.
• Maintains inventory log of milk storage volumes.
• Communicates with parents and care teams about milk inventory and transport/storage quality.
• Records syringes, bottle counts, volumes, and additives on the Milk Bank log.
• Participates in Milk Bank policies, workflows, and quality improvement activities.
• Coordinates Milk Bank technician schedule and workload with the team.

Skills

Healthcare experience

Milk handling

Team communication

Education

Associate or Bachelor's in nutrition or healthcare-related field

Job description

Job Description

We are searching for a

Job Description

We are searching for a Milk Bank Technician-- someone to store, prepare and deliver a mother's breast milk and/or pasteurized donor human milk to hospitalized infants. To provide assistance to mothers of hospitalized infants expressing milk for their infants in a manner appropriate and as necessary.

Think You’ve Got What It Takes

• Knowledge of milk collection, storage, preparation, measurement, and sanitary techniques

Minimum Qualifications:

• High school graduate, GED, or equivalent
• 6 months healthcare-related work experience

** an associate degree or a bachelor's degree in nutrition or a Healthcare related field can substitute for 6 months experience**

Preferred Qualifications

• 1 year nutrition or breastfeeding education experience
• any knowledge or experience of Milk Preparation room or Milk Lab

Responsibilities

• Accurately weighs, measures, and prepares mother’s own and/or pasteurized donor human milk for infant feeding per physician’s orders
• Uses sanitary techniques according to established procedures to prepare and store mother’s own/pasteurized donor human milk for infant feeding
• Documents and delivers properly labeled human milk feedings to appropriate patient care area.
• Maintain inventory log of mother’s own milk storage volume.
• Communicates with parents delivering milk to the Milk Bank regarding status of mother’s milk inventory and to ensure quality standards for transportation and storage of mother’s milk.
• Communicates with co-workers' status of mother’s milk inventory and location where milk is stored.
• Accurately documents the number of syringes/bottles, milk volumes and additives (when applicable) of human milk preparation on the daily Milk Bank Record
• Provides active membership in hospital work teams/committees that require Milk Bank participation.
• Participates in the review/update of Milk Bank policies, procedures and workflows and provides feedback to departmental leadership.
• Participates in quality improvement activities per department and institutional programs.
• Coordinates Milk Bank technician schedule and assignments; adjusts workload of team as needed.

"As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards. "

About Us

Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women is a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility and one of a select few hospitals nationwide that provides women, mothers and babies with a full continuum of high-quality, expert health care. Offering a full spectrum of maternal and fetal medicine services, including an array of fetal diagnostic procedures and highly specialized fetal surgeries, the Pavilion for Women is connected to Texas Children’s Hospital via a two-story circular sky bridge to enhance patient care by providing physicians, staff and patient families with rapid access to other pediatric subspecialists. Three private OB/GYN practices, The Family Fertility Center, The Menopause Center and The Women’s Place – Center for Reproductive Psychiatry are all housed here. Additionally, we also recently opened a community-based OB/GYN practice in Pearland.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.