Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below:Genetic CounselorThe Woman's Hospital of Texas
The Woman's Hospital of Texas, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
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Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
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Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
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Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
- 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
- Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
- Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
- Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
- Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
- Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
- Colleague recognition program
- Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
- Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.
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We are seeking a(an) Genetic Counselor for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!
Demonstrate continuing professional knowledge of the principles and practices of the medical genetics and genetic counseling fields; maintain knowledge of available resources relevant to issues raised in genetic counseling.
What you will do in this role:
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Provide genetic counseling through various modes of delivery—in person, telemedicine or by phone
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Explain the genetic counseling process; elicit patient expectations, perceptions and knowledge; and establish rapport through verbal and non-verbal interaction
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Clarifies patient motivations, expectations and risk perceptions
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Provide guidance to help patients understand the risks of certain diseases, for themselves and their families
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Provide guidance and support as patients go through the process of extensive and sometimes invasive genetic tests and are provided results
- Construct a completed pedigree and perform comprehensive assessment of health history and pedigree analysis for genetic and/or teratogenic risk, structuring questions for the individual case and probable diagnosis
- Analyze, counsel and educate patients to fully understand their genetic family history.
- Assess and provide appropriate support for psychosocial issues including risk perception, support/coping mechanisms, interpersonal relationships, decision making processes and patient/family anxiety, stress or fear
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Provide accurate, appropriate and effective counseling and education regarding natural history, etiology, clinical features, inheritance patterns, treatment/care options and risk for occurrence/recurrence of a condition or birth defect; calculate risks based on pedigree analysis, inheritance patterns, epidemiological data and quantitative genetics principles
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Discuss benefits, risks, and limitations of genetic screening and testing options, including associated technical, medical and psychosocial aspects, and facilitate the decision-making process in an unbiased, non-coercive manner; discuss reproductive options
- Assess client understanding of and response to information and its implications to modify a counseling session as needed
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Provide accurate documentation and summary of the counseling testing and follow up provided.
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Serve as a member of the healthcare team working with physicians, clinical experts, lab, etc.
- Identify and evaluate patient support/education resources; provide supportive counseling and information about appropriate resources
- Locate appropriate medical specialists for continuing patient care and coordinate follow-up referrals.
What qualifications you will need:
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Bachelor's degree in biology, psychology, or a closely related field. Master’s Degree in genetic counseling.
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Masters degree in genetic.
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Minimum of 2 years’ experience preferred.
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Board Eligible or board certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling or American Board of Medical Genetics.
At The Woman’s Hospital of Texas, our care philosophy is Woman First. It’s in our name, and it’s in our founding mission. Our 420+ bed hospital was founded in 1976 by 29 physicians who recognized a need in Houston for a facility focused solely on women in all stages of life. We were the first women's hospital in Houston and first facility in Texas dedicated to the health of women and newborns. Today, we are the state’s premier facility dedicated to the health of women and children offering expertise and an outstanding level of care in breast health, imaging, gynecology, minimally invasive surgery, infertility, obstetrics, high-risk pregnancy, and pediatrics. We deliver 800+ babies a month, more than any other hospital in Texas, and care for more multiple births than any other hospital in the region. Our Level IV NICU provides the highest level of care for premature babies and we have the area's only March of Dimes NICU Family Support program. As a member of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive healthcare provider in the region, we are a part of a network that delivers stronger, smarter and more accessible care to women than any other medical system across the Houston area.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Genetic Counselor opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
