Genetic Counselor

Overview:

St. Lukes Health System in Nampa in Idaho's Treasure Valley is seeking a Genetic Counselor to join our Maternal Fetal Medicine/Prenatal team.

Position Summary

St. Lukes Health System has an exciting opportunity for a Genetic Counselor to join our Maternal Fetal Medicine team in beautiful Treasure Valley, Idaho

The Genetic Counselor is responsible for researching, collecting information, and counseling families with genetic or fetal abnormalities. The Genetic Counselor will work with those who may be at risk for inherited disease or an abnormal pregnancy outcome.

This position will work in primarily in our Nampa clinic with some time in the Boise clinic, as well as conduct telehealth appointments with patients from our Magic Valley clinic.

Hours are Monday-Friday business hours.

Benefits include medical/dental/vision insurance, PTO/ESL, tuition reimbursement, extensive well-being program, and signing/relocation bonus

Responsibilities

• Provides specialty consultation to healthcare staff, including physicians and other primary care providers. Serve as resource to physicians, hospital staff, and parents
• Discusses prognosis and management options; explain disease signs and symptoms, probability of recurrence, prognosis, diagnostic methods and procedures, alternate courses of action and available options
• Coordinates patient care with social services, clergy, healthcare providers and other resources based upon evaluation of individual patient needs
• Compiles complete family history, obtain and review medical records, assess risk of genetic disease and provide grief and crisis counseling to individuals and/or families
• Participates in partnerships, projects and strategic planning involving genetics across the Health System. Serves as resource to physicians, hospital staff, and parents
• Documents care provided in the medical record
• Provides community outreach, education, public policy advocacy and philanthropy for areas that genetics is involved in
• Provides follow-up patient care
• May perform duties to assure compliance with COC requirements
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Qualifications

• Master's Degree from an accredited Genetic Counseling Program
• Certified or Board eligible, licensure from the state of practice, or provisional license before hire date
• Prenatal or Maternal Fetal Medicine experience preferred

At St. Lukes, caring for people in the communities we serve is our mission and this includes our own SLHS team. We offer a robust benefits package to support our teams both professionally and personally. In addition to a competitive salary and retirement plans, we ensure our team feels supported in their benefits beyond the typical medical, dental, and vision offerings. We care about you and have fantastic financial and physical wellness options, such as: on-site massages, on-site counseling via our Employee Assistance Program, access to the Virgin Pulse Wellness tool, as well as other formal training and career development offerings to ensure you are meeting your career goals.

St. Lukes is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by law.

*Please note: this posting is not reflective of all job duties and responsibilities and is intended to provide an overview to job seekers.