Job Title & Specialty Area: Clinical Beacon Liaison

Department: CCBD Admin

Location: Dallas

Shift: Monday - Friday 8am -4:30pm

Job Type: Remote

Why Children’s Health? At Children's Health, our mission is to Make Life Better for Children, and we recognize that their health plays a crucial role in achieving this goal.

Through our cutting-edge treatments and affiliation with UT Southwestern, we strive to deliver an extraordinary patient and family experience, ensuring that every moment, big or small, contributes to their overall well-being.

Our dedication to promoting children's health extends beyond our organization and encompasses the broader community. Together, we can make a significant difference in the lives of children and contribute to a brighter and healthier future for all.

Summary:
Responsible for facilitating the coordination, communication, testing, education, building, revision, and provision of application support for Beacon functionality in the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders (CCBD). This position requires the application of advanced broad-based knowledge of hematology-oncology professional practice and theory, as well as the vision to act as a change agent in problem-solving across disciplines within the hematology-oncology department. Serves as the primary point of contact for ongoing production support and troubleshooting within the Beacon application. Serves as the liaison for the Beacon application with the Information Technology (IT) team as well as the Analytics team.

Responsibilities:
* Implementation: Responsible for reviewing clinical trials (up to 500 pages) and individualized treatment plans and their associated Roadmaps in detail to understand the treatment plan, associated supportive care and timing of each therapy, and then build associated Beacon protocols in Epic. When investigational agents are involved, must coordinate with investigational pharmacist. Build is done in POC environment and then validated by a CCBD multidisciplinary team. Facilitates Beacon validation meetings. Once approved, partners with IS to DC to TST environment. Once in TST environment, responsible for testing, and then IS is asked to DC to PROD environment.
* Project Management: Responsible for reviewing Care Concern emails from Epic to evaluate any new issues and how they affect departmental Beacon workflows. Intervene as required through testing, clarifying with Epic resource, and notifying end users when applicable. Collaborate with IS on review of Epic upgrade materials and Special Update packages, reviewing all Beacon-assigned release notes. Review for impact to existing workflows, present to User group for review, communicate decisions regarding whether we will take the enhancements, etc. Test new workflows as required.
* Maintenance: Review all study amendments to determine if changes affect Beacon build. Communicate with disease-specific attending as needed. For amendments requiring a change in Beacon build, update the protocol, working with Advanced Practice Provider (APP) to validate update. If the update includes medication changes, collaborate with Beacon validation team or pharmacist based on nature of change for final validation. Changes in compounded medications, ERX type, or therapy changes related to drug shortages may require significant change across many Beacon protocols at any given time. Beaker changes in lab records can affect labs added to Beacon and require updates in many Beacon protocols. Changes identified as a result of end user feedback, changes in treatment plans or regulatory findings can affect Beacon protocols broadly, requiring updates in multiple Beacon protocols. Attend and participates in monthly Chemotherapy Task Force to identify any issues that require revision in Beacon protocols.
* Administrative: Provide classroom training for new oncology providers, including attending physicians, fellows and APP’s. Training is individualized to the provider’s past exposure/experience to Epic and Beacon. Provide classroom training for new nursing staff when hired. Training individualized to level of experience. Collaborate with departmental Clinical Educators on workflow surrounding new protocols, Epic upgrades affecting Beacon, etc. Serve as production support for Beacon to oncology providers, pharmacists and nurses.
* Other: Complete Children’s Annual Required Training (CART); Attend internal departmental meetings; Participate in departmental activities (like survey-related activities); Organizing; Filing; and other duties as assigned.

How You’ll Be Successful:

WORK EXPERIENCE
* At least 5 years with hematology/oncology experience Req
* Direct patient care experience in a hematology/oncology clinical setting Req

EDUCATION
* Four-year bachelor's degree or equivalent experience Req

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
* Registered Nurse, Pharmacist, advanced practice provider (NP, PA) Certification specific to hem/onc Req
* EPIC Beacon certified 180 Days Req

A Place Where You Belong

We put our people first. We welcome, value, and respect the beliefs, identities and experiences of our patients and colleagues. We are committed to delivering culturally effective care, creating meaningful partnerships in the communities we serve, and equipping and developing our team members to make Children’s Health a place where everyone can contribute.

 Holistic Benefits – How We’ll Care for You:

· Employee portion of medical plan premiums are covered after 3 years.

· 4%-10% employee savings plan match based on tenure

· Paid Parental Leave (up to 12 weeks)

· Caregiver Leave

· Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement >