Characteristic Duties:
- Collect and evaluate patient medical history, constructing a pedigree using appropriate nomenclature.
- Perform comprehensive genetic risk assessment and explain specifics regarding natural history of diagnosis, genetic factors, and available testing options. Facilitate testing when indicated.
- Interpret genetic test results and communicate them to patients and other healthcare professionals.
- Provide psychosocial assessment and counseling.
- Appropriately document all clinical encounters.
- Perform case preparation and follow-up.
- Effectively triage new referrals.
- Consent patients for participation in relevant registries based on their genetic testing status.
- Provide clinical onboarding, mentorship and education to other genetic counselors and health care professionals.
- Recognize and address key clinical factors that suggest genetic risk beyond chief complaint.
- Serve as content expert for referring providers.
- Take proactive steps to assure continuity of care within the clinical unit.
- Develop/implement protocols for the integration of emerging technologies that may affect clinical care.
- Design and implement plans for improvement in the clinic.
- Perform other related duties as assigned
- Master's degree in Genetic Counseling or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Certification as a Genetic Counselor by the American Board of Medical Genetics.
- Licensed, or able to be licensed, as a Genetic Counselor by the State of Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
- Demonstrate ability to provide independent, advanced genetic counseling services, including test coordination, and ordering, test interpretation, patient education, family risk assessment and cascade testing.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and diverse patient populations.
- Minimum of two years of experience as a genetic counselor, including direct patient counseling in a clinical setting.
- Experience working across both adult and pediatric patient populations.
- Experience in cardiovascular genetics, including inherited cardiomyopathies, arrhythmia syndromes, and other heritable cardiovascular disorders.
- Prior involvement in clinical research, patient registries, or quality improvement initiatives.
- Proficiency with Epic or other electronic health record systems.
- Experience developing patient education materials or counseling tools.
- Active participation in professional genetic counseling or cardiovascular genetics organizations.
Supervision Received
General supervision is received from a physician or other designated official.
Supervision Exercised
Functional supervision may be exercised over students, genetic counselors and support staff.
This position is covered under the collective bargaining agreement between the U-M and the United Michigan Medicine Allied Professionals (UMMAP), which contains and settles all matters with respect to wages, benefits, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.
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