Milk Bank Technician

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. "