Job Description for The Well Member Care Center

Maternal/Infant Care Position

Job Title: Maternal/Infant Nurse or Doula Birth Support Person

The Well Member Care Center is a growing and stimulating place to serve God.  It seeks to provide a wide range of member care services throughout Southeast, Central, and East Asia.  It serves people working in countries from Japan to Central Asia, and even the Middle East and Africa; and from Mongolia to Indonesia.
One of the services supported by The Well consists of several RNs who provide birth education classes, birth support, lactation instruction, and support for new parents.  This is offered for the English-speaking (primarily missions) community both in Chiang Mai and for the many others who come to birth here from other locations in S.E. Asia.

This has been a rewarding, challenging, and greatly needed volunteer ministry which has doubled in size in the last few years.  Last year 65 couples, working in 9 different countries and coming from 22 different passport countries, were assisted in some or in all of these ways.

We are looking for someone with experience as a labor nurse and a birth educator, with lactation training experience highly desirable, or with Doula experience. This person will play an important role in supporting couples at this special time in their lives.  Helping people in the birth process in a foreign country, with many different cultural ways of doing things, is an ever changing and highly rewarding experience.
Reports to:    The Well Member Care Center Director or designee.


Position Summary:

  1. To work with an already established birth support network, with lactation training especially beneficial.
  2. Ability to teach birthing and lactation classes, and provide consultation and support during and after delivery.
  3. Will be expected to take appropriate time at the beginning of his/her stay in Chiang Mai to do some language study, and to become familiar with the local culture and area.
  4. This is a volunteer support position, not a paid position.  In the hospital the person will not be working in a staff position or under any professional license, but needs to be able to interact with Thai medical staff in a culturally sensitive manner.