Genetic Counselor

St. Elizabeth Healthcare•Edgewood, KY

21h

About The Position

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do. This position is responsible for providing genetic counseling for a variety of indications, tailored to the needs of the department and the interest of the candidate. This includes hereditary cancer and hereditary cardiac conditions with the potential for growth into additional areas of precision medicine such as adult, Neurology, pharmacogenomics and laboratory stewardship. All counseling and genetic programs will be in accord with the mission of St. Elizabeth Healthcare as sponsored by the Bishop of the Covington Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. This serves as an entry level position for new MS-degreed individuals or those seeking to participate in direct patient care activity only. Candidate must demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Genetic Counseling from an accredited institution.
Board Certified or Board Eligible (American Board of Genetic Counseling).
Must hold or be in the process of obtaining a full or temporary license to practice Genetic Counseling in the state where work is being performed. Temporary license may not have a lapse of greater than 60 days during re-application process in event of failed exam.
Comprehensive knowledge of both clinical and molecular genetics and genomics.
Excellent communication skills and ability to elicit medical, family, social, and psychosocial histories.
Critical thinking skills to necessary to perform risk assessment and psychosocial assessment.
Ability to apply counseling methods to help families cope, understand, and manage outcomes of genetic testing and facilitate decision-making.
Familiarity with Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services.
Completion of Master’s degree in Genetics Counseling with exposure to perinatal, hereditary cancer, and/or cardiac risk assessment.

Responsibilities

Genetic counseling: provide genetic counseling in 2 mutually agreed upon indications within the Precision Medicine Department. This can include maternal-fetal screening and diagnostic procedures for suspected and diagnosed fetal anomalies, pre-conception counseling, hereditary cancer risk, cardiovascular genetics, pharmacogenomics, lab utilization, population genetic screening and precision oncology.
Provides necessary case management and follow-up, documentation and communication with other members of the health care team.
Other duties as assigned: example – in-services, presentations, Tumor boards, support groups, staffing clinics, interdepartmental collaboration.
Resource for patients, family members, and associates as needed.
Professional conduct including patient confidentiality, showing empathy and compassion to patients and families.
Seeks out opportunities to increase knowledge and skills in area of expertise including maintaining appropriate certification and licensure.
Performs other duties as assigned.