TRANSPLANT PROCESS COORDINATOR, 40 HOURS, DAYS

Company: U Mass Memorial Health
Location: Worcester
Posted on: October 26, 2024

Job Description:

Are you an internal caregiver, student, or contingent worker/agency worker at UMass Memorial Health? CLICK HERE to apply through your Workday account. Exemption Status: Exempt Schedule Details: Monday through Friday Scheduled Hours: 0800-1630 Shift: 1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America) Hours: 40 Cost Center: 10020 - 2140 Kidney Acquisition This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process. Everyone Is a Caregiver At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver - regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 16,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day. I. Major Responsibilities: 1. In collaboration with transplant surgeons and transplant physicians, arranges for new patient evaluation and pre-transplant work-up of potential recipients. 2. Arranges evaluation of all potential living donors for transplantation. 3. In collaboration with medical transplant physicians and/or the surgical transplant physicians, monitors patient's overall health status and intervenes when necessary during the waiting period prior to transplant. Responsible for assisting the pre-transplant patient to maintain optimal health status during this waiting period so that the patient may experience the best outcomes from transplantation. Communicates all patient issues and donor concerns to the appropriate transplant surgeon or physician. 4. Interacts with all transplant related physician staff and nursing staff and educates them to the best practices associated with transplantation. 5. Provides patient and family education through all phases of transplant, discharge planning for the transplant patient, as well as education for the inpatient hospital staff. II. Position Qualifications: License/Certification/Education: Required: 1. Bachelor's degree in Nursing. 2. Current Massachusetts Registered Nurse license and registration. Preferred: 1. Master's degree in Nursing. 2. CCTC (Certified Clinical Transplant Coordinator) certification. Experience/Skills: Required: 1. Three to five years tertiary care nursing. 2. Excellent interpersonal skills. 3. Excellent communication skills both verbal and written. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. We're striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health - for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day. As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentacquisition@umassmemorial.org. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.

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