Pulmonology Genetic Counselor
About The Position
The Pulmonary Genetic Counselor will be dedicated to the NTM Clinic. This role involves eliciting medical and family history, constructing pedigrees to assess genetic disease risk, and evaluating complex medical and genetic literature. The counselor will explain genetic testing options, coordinate testing, and provide genetic education, counseling, and psychosocial support to patients and families. Responsibilities include reviewing referrals, triaging cases, supporting genetics clinic operations, performing administrative and clinical activities, and writing detailed consultation reports. The role requires collaboration with the genetic counseling team, MD supervisor(s), and the multidisciplinary care team, as well as facilitating referrals. The position involves interpreting genetic results with minimal oversight, identifying patient support resources, providing clinical supervision for students, teaching genetics content to trainees, implementing data collection systems, and collaborating on research and quality improvement projects. Mentoring new genetic counselor hires is also part of the role.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent
- 4-6 years of work experience
- State licensure and/or professional certification requirement/s dependent on position.
Responsibilities
- Elicits medical history, family history and constructs pedigree to assess risk for genetic disease occurrence or recurrence
- Evaluates complex medical and genetic literature from a variety of sources and incorporates into patient counseling and management
- Explains available testing options including risks, benefits and limitations of testing
- Coordinates genetic testing and return of results for patients and/or families
- Provides genetic education, counseling, and psychosocial support for patients/families
- Reviews referrals and triages cases
- Supports operations of genetics clinic
- Performs administrative and day-to-day operational clinical activities including record review and patient charting
- Writes detailed consultation reports conveying complex genetic concepts to patients and referring physicians
- Collaborates with genetic counseling team, MD supervisor(s) and multidisciplinary care team
- Facilitates referrals as indicated
- Demonstrates in-depth medical knowledge in practice area(s) and interprets most genetic results with minimal oversight/guidance
- Identifies or creates patient support resources for indications encountered in practice
- Provides clinical supervision for genetic counseling students
- Teaches genetics/genetic counseling content to medical/genetic trainees
- Implements systems to collect, maintain and analyze operational data
- Collaborates on research and/or quality improvement projects
- Mentors new genetic counselor hires
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
