Genetic Counselor IV - Manhattan, Cancer Center

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Allied Health/Other

New York, NY

Full-Time/Regular

NYU Langone Health is a fully integrated health system that consistently achieves the best patient outcomes through a rigorous focus on quality that has resulted in some of the lowest mortality rates in the nation. Vizient Inc. has ranked NYU Langone the No. 1 comprehensive academic medical center in the country for three years in a row, and U.S. News & World Report recently placed nine of its clinical specialties among the top five in the nation.

NYU Langone offers a comprehensive range of medical services with one high standard of care across 6 inpatient locations, its Perlmutter Cancer Center, and over 320 outpatient locations in the New York area and Florida. With $14.2 billion in revenue this year, the system also includes two tuition-free medical schools, in Manhattan and on Long Island, and a vast research enterprise with over $1 billion in active awards from the National Institutes of Health.
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We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Genetic Counselor IV - Manhattan, Cancer Center.
In this role, the successful candidate We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a full time Cancer Genetic Counselor. In this role, the successful candidate is responsible for assisting patients and their families in understanding hereditary cancer, as well as serving as educator and resource person for other health care professionals and the general public.

• Provides genetic counseling for patients and their families referred for the High Risk
  - Cancer Genetics Program at NYU Langone, based at NYU Perlmutter Cancer Center.
• Provides tailored cancer risk assessment for the individual/family for hereditary predisposition to cancer.
• Effectively counsels patients and their families. Interviews patients and their families to review the family history of cancer, provides individualized cancer risk assessment, and effectively provides individual and group counseling to patients and their families.
• Reviews complex cases with one of the hereditary cancer specialist physicians in the High Risk
  - Cancer Genetics Program.
• Ability to collaborate effectively as a member of the health care team and to take initiative and leadership as appropriate.
• Leadership in representing the HRCGP and serving as the primary liaison between the team and PCC disease groups by attending treatment planning conferences/case conferences, establishing referral systems, developing disease specific counseling materials (letters, education materials, etc.).
• Serve in a leadership role within the program/institution, such as: supervise students on clinical rotations, serve on institutional committee related to policy, strategic planning, outreach, or quality improvement, oversee a universal tumor screening program.
• Exhibit advanced leadership and clinical or scholarship expertise and by doing the following or similar achievements in coordination with the Manager-Genetic Counseling and clinical/scholarship goals: establish a new clinical cancer genetics services (expanding to provide services for new indication, new location, etc.), create or update standard operating protocols related to clinical responsibilities, devise and successfully implement a new method or procedure to improve clinic flow, participation in grant preparation/writing, peer reviewed manuscripts and/or case reports, invited speaker or session chair, participate in a national committee.
• Provide excellent clinical genetic counseling services to patients and a…