Bridges Coordinator - Womens and Childrens Services - Days - FT - Orange

UCI Health is one of California's largest academic health systems and the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine. Established on July 1, 1976, UCI Health has grown into a 1,461-bed health system that includes UCI Health - Orange, UCI Health - Irvine, four Community Network hospitals and a growing network of ambulatory care centers across Orange and Los Angeles counties.

As Orange County's only academic health systems, UCI Health is home to the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center based in the county, the region's only American College of Surgeons-verified Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center, American College of Emergency Physicians Gold Level 1 Geriatric Emergency Department and a nationally recognized regional burn center verified by the American Burn Association. Powered by UC Irvine, UCI Health serves 5.6 million people across Orange County, western Riverside County and southeast Los Angeles County through excellence in patient care, research and medical education.

The Bridges Coordinator is responsible for the comprehensive coordination and oversight of newborn family screening and risk assessment within the assigned facility, utilizing the Bridges Maternal Child Health Screening Tool to identify families who may benefit from additional support services. The incumbent maintains accountability for the completion of prescreening, eligibility determination, and timely referral to enhanced services, including home visitation programs and CalWORKs Home Visiting Program, ensuring all documentation and data entry meets program timelines and data integrity standards. This role provides non-clinical bedside education and support to postpartum families, addressing available community resources for breastfeeding, immunizations, newborn care and postpartum wellbeing, while identifying and facilitating referrals for families with social, developmental, behavioral health, or psychosocial risk factors. The Coordinator manages inventory and distribution of educational materials and Kits for New Parents, ensures compliance with data privacy, HIPAA, consent, and information-sharing requirements, and serves as the hospital's liaison with First 5 Orange County / Bridges program leadership, participating in meetings, audits, training, and program improvement initiatives. The incumbent collaborates closely with nursing, case management, social work, physicians, lactation consultants, and community partners to support seamless care transitions, educates hospital coworkers on program workflows and resources, and monitors program performance metrics to ensure contract compliance and successful achievement of outcomes. This position exercises independent judgment in integrating screening and referral processes into routine, non-clinical maternal-child operations and supports regulatory compliance activities as needed.

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The University of California, Irvine (UCI) seeks to provide a safe and healthy environment for the entire UCI community. As part of this commitment, all applicants who accept an offer of employment must comply with the following conditions of employment:

• Background Check and Live Scan
• Employment Misconduct*
• Legal Right to Work in the United States
• Vaccination Policies
• Smoking and Tobacco Policy
• Drug Free Environment

*Misconduct Disclosure Requirement: As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.

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• California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act
• E-Verify
• Pre-Placement Health Evaluation

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