[Hiring] Daytime Neonatal ICU/Perinatal Nurse @Pomelo Care

Role Description

Provide and facilitate amazing patient-centered clinical care to our NICU patients and their families. For families navigating the complexities of a NICU stay and the critical transition home, you are their expert clinical guide and reassuring presence.

As a NICU/Perinatal Nurse at Pomelo, you will leverage your deep clinical expertise to provide a layer of virtual support to supplement the in-person care of both the birthing parent and their NICU baby. You will do more than just answer questions; you will actively teach, assess, triage, and intervene to build parent confidence and prevent complications. This role is a unique opportunity to use your NICU nursing skills in a flexible, impactful way, helping to ensure the safest possible transition from hospital to home for our most vulnerable patients.

We are currently hiring for the following FT Daytime hours: M-F 9am-6pm EST with a rotating weekend requirement. Please note that holiday coverage is also expected on a rotating basis.

Reporting to the Nurse Lead, and working closely with the Pomelo NICU Support Team, your key responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating holistic family support by seamlessly connecting parents to our dedicated specialists, resource partners, and pediatric providers to ensure they are fully supported throughout the NICU journey and prepared for a safe discharge.
• Ongoing clinical and psychosocial assessment of new patients, providing reassurance and building rapport.
• Establishing individualized care plans to meet specific health needs based on evidence-based standards.
• Developing wellness goals by determining motivating factors and leveraging them for best possible health outcomes.
• Identifying and addressing barriers to care that have been identified by patients and/or the care team.
• Reducing care gaps (missed appointments, medication management, etc.) by frequent engagements with patients.
• Assessing the need for and educating patients on the equipment they will use to monitor their health remotely.
• Ongoing surveillance and timely response to abnormal diagnostic results (labs, radiology, etc.).
• Assessment of urgent concerns and proactively triaging patients to support appropriate utilization of emergency services.
• Timely documentation of all care/interactions and escalating to appropriate multidisciplinary teams, as needed.
• Supporting the development of programs and product by providing user feedback.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse, BSN prepared, current unrestricted multi-state (compact) license.
• 4+ years RECENT experience in a hospital and/or healthcare practice, serving maternal-child health populations (minimum 1 year in NICU and 1 year in labor and delivery/postpartum or Antepartum).
• A growth mindset with the ability to approach process change and ambiguous situations with enthusiasm, creativity, and accountability.
• Eager to thrive in a fast-paced, metric-driven environment.
• Internet-connected, able to work remotely via video, phone, and text.
• Willing to travel occasionally (infrequent).
• Willing to work weekends and holidays.
• Understand the prevalence and role that birth inequity and structural racism plays in maternal morbidity and mortality.
• Professionally engaged.

Requirements

• Bonus points if you have any of the following:
• Experience working with perinatal patients who have had pregnancy-related diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, perinatal loss, etc.
• Experience providing virtual care.
• Spanish Fluency (without the use of an interpreter).

Benefits

• Competitive healthcare benefits.
• Generous equity compensation.
• Generous vacation policy.