What are the responsibilities and job description for the Genetic Counselor I (Pediatrics) position at UPMC?
UPMC Department of Pediatrics is hiring a full-time Genetic Counselor to join their team at Children's Hospital. This role will work within the Division of Genetic and Genomic Medicine. This is a Monday through Friday daylight position with the hours of 8am to 4:30pm. No evenings or weekends. This position will primarily do pediatric and adult genetic counseling and require travel to local satellite locations.
This role offers a career ladder for growth and advacement! After a 6-month orientation period, there is possibility for some work from home days.
Purpose:
Performs professional and administrative duties necessary to provide counseling and risk assessment for genetic conditions to patients and families.
Responsibilities:
- Operate, maintain, and update the genetic databases.
- Implement treatment plan and make the appropriate referrals to medical, nursing, social work, and psychological services.
- Assist genetic laboratory services with interpretation and communication of results to patients and physicians.
- Responsible for following the mandatory reporting procedures for any incident or serious event that did affect or potentially could have affected the clinical care of any patient.
- Provide comprehensive genetic counseling at all designated sites and to patients and families referred for genetic services following the competencies established by the ABGC. This includes case preparation, contracting, review of medical and family histories, creation of pedigree, genetic risk assessment, discussion of inheritance/risk/diagnosis/natural history, genetic testing options, possible result outcomes and implications for patient and family, limited related psychosocial assessment, and resource identification (disease/community/healthcare).
- Prepare and conduct lectures/seminars on human genetics and genetic counseling for lay groups, students, and health professionals; provide clinical supervision for residents and fellows rotating through genetics.
- Assist in the development and implementation of ongoing clinical investigations in genetics by writing and editing research manuscripts and grants; recruit and enroll patients into ongoing studies.
- Act as mentor to genetic counseling graduate students from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
- Responsible for maintenance of QA for the clinical genetic counseling services.
- Communicate with patients and physicians by phone and/or in writing regarding patient care/testing, which includes interpretation of test results.
- Serve as a resource for various health care professionals regarding genetic testing, genetically based questions, teratogens, and genetic medical information.
- Coordinate genetic testing and insurance coverage for genetic testing of genetics patients.