The Prenatal Educator teaches and facilitates prenatal classes and support groups to prepare families for newborn care. Responsibilities include managing classroom materials, documenting attendance, and collaborating with the education coordinator to improve program effectiveness.
Requirements summary
Preferred Qualifications
include being an IBCLC, Certified Lactation Counselor, or LPN with obstetrical or pediatric experience. A certification in childbirth education and experience in labor and delivery are also highly desired.
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The Prenatal Educator teaches, educates and prepares families in advance of having a baby and to help them be successful in caring for their newborns.
Functions as an educator for patients of all ages.
This includes teaching and facilitating support groups at any of St.
Luke’s Hospital and Health Network facilities.
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Serves as instructor for prenatal classes and support groups as scheduled and utilizes current evidence based research to support principles of education and practice.
Secures and maintains appropriate materials and equipment for utilization in classroom environment.
Assures materials are available and promptly returns materials and equipment to the appropriate department.
Teaches prenatal classes as assigned; either virtually and/or in person.
Sets up classroom and online materials in advance of class start time and cleans up and restocks supplies at the end of class time.
Maintains detailed documentation of class attendance and collects class fees, if necessary Shares observations and improvement ideas for classes and programs with Coordinator, Prenatal Education Programs.
Participates in the periodic review of program materials and overall program effectiveness.
Collaborates with the Prenatal Education Coordinator, Prenatal Education Programs and other educators through the Baby and Me department to evaluate services offered and support program development.
Periodically serves as back-up instructor for other instructors.
Communicates patient’s needs identified during classes to provide comprehensive coordination of care and quality patient experience.
PHYSICAL AND SENSORY REQUIREMENTS: Sit up to 2 hours per day; 1 hour at a time.
Stand for up to 10 hours per day; 8 hours at a time.
Walk to 6 hours per day, 20 minutes at a time.
Frequent use of hands and fingers.
Occasionally lift, carry, and push objects up to 75 lbs.
Transport patients weighing up to 250 lbs. via wheelchair, bed and/or stretcher.
Frequently stoops and bends.
Frequently reaches above shoulder level.
Must be able to perceive attributes of an object through touch.
Must be able to hear as it relates to normal conversation, high and low frequencies.
Must be able to see as it relates to general, near, far, color, and peripheral vision.
Must have the ability to hear normal conversation.
EDUCATION: IBCLC, Certified Lactation Counselor, or Licensed Practical Nurse with current license to practice in the state of Pennsylvania with obstetrical and/or pediatric experience preferred.
Experience in labor and delivery, newborn and postpartum care preferred.
Certified childbirth educator with demonstrated experience and knowledge of breastfeeding support a plus.
TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE: Experience in working in an obstetrical and/or pediatric setting preferred.
Ability to engage and maintain constructive relationship with diverse populations.
Instructor trained in obstetrics or childbirth education preferred.
Please complete your application using your full legal name and current home address.
Be sure to include employment history for the past seven (7) years, including your present employer.
Additionally, you are encouraged to upload a current resume, including all work history, education, and/or certifications and licenses, if applicable.
It is highly recommended that you create a profile at the conclusion of submitting your first application.
Thank you for your interest in St.
Luke's!!
St.
Luke's University Health Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Founded in 1872, St.
Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 23,000 employees providing services at 16 campuses and 350+ outpatient sites.
With annual net revenue in excess of $4 billion, the Network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey.
St.
Luke’s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St.
Luke’s Children’s Hospital.
SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare’s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction.
It is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital.
The Network’s flagship University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from Premier 13 times total and eleven years in a row, including in 2023 when it was identified as THE #4 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY.
In 2021, St.
Luke’s was identified as one of the 15 Top Health Systems nationally.
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Luke’s is the ONLY health care institution in the Lehigh Valley to be named a Top Workplace regionally repeating the exclusive honor for the third year in a row.
Also, for the third straight year, St.
Luke’s has been a Top Workplaces in the Philadelphia Region by the Philadelphia Inquirer, ranking 9th in the large employer category for 2025 and the only health care system in PA to receive this award.
In 2025, St.
Luke’s was recognized as a national Top Workplaces by USA Today, three years in a row, including the 3rd best health care system in the nation in 2023 and 2024.
Lastly, in 2025, St.
Luke’s was named a Top Workplace in New Jersey for the third year in a row.
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