Join Our Team

Who we’re looking for

Hamilton Family Doulas is always interested in meeting exceptional Birth Doulas, Postpartum Doulas and experienced newborn care professionals who share our approach to supporting families.

We’re looking for people who are:

  • Professional and reliable: You take this work seriously, communicate well, show up when you say you will and want to build meaningful work supporting families.

  • Client-centred: You can put your own preferences and experiences aside and support families in making the choices that are right for them. We don’t believe there is one “right” way to give birth, feed a baby or parent.

  • Nurturing and compassionate: You can be a calm, reassuring presence during some of the most exciting, exhausting and vulnerable days of a family’s life.

  • Confident working independently: Our postpartum and overnight doulas work independently in clients’ homes and need to be comfortable caring for newborns and young infants while supporting the needs of the whole family.

  • A great team member: You communicate well with clients, other doulas and the HFD team. Our birth doulas work in a team-based model, and all of our doulas are part of a larger support team.

  • Committed to excellent care: You are willing to maintain appropriate insurance, current CPR/First Aid certification and a current vulnerable sector police check, and to work according to HFD’s standards of care.

  • Flexible: You have reliable availability for the type of work you’re applying for. We welcome doulas interested specifically in birth support, daytime postpartum care, overnight care, or a combination.

  • Experienced or ready to learn: Doula training is an asset, but it isn’t the only path to becoming an excellent member of our team. We’re also interested in hearing from people with significant newborn, infant, postpartum or maternal care experience who are willing to learn and work within the HFD model.

Who we’re especially looking for right now

We’re currently growing our overnight postpartum and Night Nanny team.

We’re especially interested in applicants who are confident caring for newborns and young infants overnight and have consistent availability for overnight shifts.

Experience with twins and multiples is a big asset.

Our overnight doulas provide calm, capable newborn care while helping exhausted families get the rest and support they need. You’ll work independently in clients’ homes, while having the support of an established doula agency behind you.

Think you might be a great fit?

We’d love to hear from you.

Whether you’re an experienced postpartum doula or you’re coming to this work with strong newborn and postpartum experience from another professional background, tell us a little about yourself, your experience and the kind of work you’re looking for.

 

**note: Hamilton Family Doulas is not a training organization and therefore registration
and attendance at any training is not a guarantee of an offer of employment or affiliation.
This is an invitation to be considered to become an independent contractor to provide birth
and postpartum doula services to families in the Greater Hamilton Area. All fees associated
trainings, workshops, certifications and professional development are the sole responsibility
of the doula candidate.