Certified Professional Midwife

Title: Certified Professional Midwife (CPM)

Guiding Star Southwest, a division of Southwest Coalition, Inc., is searching for Certified Professional Midwives to join its mission in expanding life-affirming medical and birth services for women in El Paso, Texas. As an affiliate of the national Guiding Star Project and inspired by St. Mary, Our Lady Star of the Sea, Guiding Star Southwest is committed to delivering trauma-informed healthcare that respects the whole person by considering a woman’s mind, body, and soul. The organization’s focus spans the full spectrum of women’s health, from puberty through perimenopause, and emphasizes fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and motherhood, while striving to reduce trauma by advocating against societal pressures that may compromise the natural functions of a woman’s body. The ideal candidate is a compassionate midwife with a servant’s heart, eager to be both a voice and provider for wholistic comprehensive care.

The Opportunity

As we expand our core services to include a birth center in alignment with Wholistic Feminism, we are looking for pro-life midwives to be responsible for working closely with pregnant women, assisting in low-risk births, and providing health care to women and infants post-pregnancy. The CPM will assist with prenatal care, labor, delivery, and postpartum care, and may also provide reproductive care and education to female and male patients.

To be a successful wholistic Guiding Star midwife, you should be dedicated and focused on providing top-quality wholistic care and education to your patients, focused on “wholism” or whole-person care which considers a person’s mind, body, and spirit. You should have a strong working knowledge of trauma-informed women’s healthcare, as well as a patient, caring, and detail-oriented personality.

The ideal candidate will enjoy:

• Our unique model: In addition to our programs to build a Culture of Life in the Southwest, we also strive to provide expert healthcare to ensure that women have a life-affirming alternative through pre-natal and post-natal healthcare, education, and material support.
• Our culture: At Southwest Coalition for Life, we offer a more relaxed working environment, catering to the needs of our employees and establishing a family-like feel, leading by example and supporting breastfeeding in the workplace.
• Being an innovator: With the merger and expansion of two non-profit organizations, you will be establishing the medical practice for a new venture and helping support a ground-breaking mission on the new frontline of the pro-life movement in post-Roe America.

The Company

Southwest Coalition, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation focused on restoring reverence for the sanctity of human life and natural womanhood across the Southwest through a coalition of nonprofit social enterprises in line with Catholic and Biblical teaching, including our Guiding Star Southwest women’s medical centers, The Lily Pad Maternity Home, our Her Care Connection outreach and mobile medical bus, and Coalition for Life ministries.

Our Core Values

All team members must embody and execute our Core Values within their day-to-day duties and responsibilities:

• Humble: Lack entitlement and ego, be respectful and flexible, don’t take yourself too seriously, set others up for success even at a potential loss for yourself.
• Hungry: Have an unrelenting hunger to change the world, taking initiative fueled by a boldly optimistic hope and entrepreneurial growth mindset.
• Smart: Strong emotional intelligence, understanding the impact of your words and actions on others, inviting vulnerable communication and healthy conflict.
• Heart: Be compassionate, prayerful, and empathetic with a sincere desire to truly see and know others through a reverence for life and natural womanhood.

What the Role Entails

The following are detailed performance objectives for the Certified Professional Midwife, who will need to be/become licensed in Texas and preferably also in New Mexico. When measuring overall aptitude and cultural fit, all candidates will be benchmarked using these standards.

Clinical Care

• Provide comprehensive prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and newborn care in accordance with state regulations, CPM scope of practice, and clinic/birth center policies
   
• Conduct health histories, physical exams, prenatal visits, labor assessments, and postpartum follow-up visits
   
• Attend and manage normal physiologic births in the birth center and, when applicable, home birth settings
   
• Monitor maternal and fetal well-being, recognize deviations from normal, and initiate appropriate interventions or transfers of care
   
• Provide routine newborn care, including initial assessments, screenings, and parent education
   
• Prescribe, dispense, or administer medications and treatments within CPM scope and state law (e.g., anti-hemorrhagic agents, IV fluids, vitamin K, Rh testing coordination, etc.)

Professional Practice

• Participate in staff meetings, trainings, drills, and continuing education
   
• Uphold the mission, values, and ethical standards of the clinic and birth center

Qualifications

Required

• Must be comfortable in a God-centered environment with a reverence for life at all ages from conception to natural death
• Agree with and be willing to uphold Guiding Star Southwest’s Philosophy Statement, Core Values, and policies and procedures. 
• Certified by either the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB) or North American Registry of Midwives (NARM).
• Appropriate state licensure.
• Proven experience working as a midwife.
• Basic Life Support (BSL) and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certifications.
• Required to speak English and Spanish
• The ability to work under pressure.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and clinical assessment skills.
• Effective communication skills.
• Patient and compassionate.
• Must be certified or willing to become certified to perform and interpret obstetrical ultrasounds
• 2+ year experience as a Certified Nurse Midwife in a birth center or hospital setting (Preferred)
• Open to shift work and on-call availability at different hours of the night and day.
• Language: English (Required) and Spanish (Preferred)
• Regularly required to walk, stand, drive, sit for long periods of time (Required)
• Must be proficient at entering data in a quick and efficient manner (Required)
• Must be able to lift and carry objects up to 40 pounds. (Required)
• Ability to commute:
  • El Paso, TX 79902 & Las Cruces, NM 88011
• Must possess a valid driver’s license, auto insurance, and reliable personal vehicle for transportation (Required)

Scheduling Details 

• Full time position 
  • 2 eight hour clinic days per week
  • Two weeks of call per month (one on, one off) 
  • Anticipate 4-6 EDD per month per midwife 
• Part Time Position 
  • 1 eight hour clinic day per week
  • Two weeks of call per month (one on, one off)
  • Anticipate 3-4 EDD per month for your COCs

Please note that this job description is a living document, and your passion and dedication will contribute to shaping the dynamic nature of your responsibilities. Join us in making a profound impact on the lives of those we serve. Please note that this job description is subject to change and may be updated as needed.