Genetic Counselor

Rochester, NH - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 85000 - 95000

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Department of Pediatrics Division of Pediatric Genetics at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) is seeking two full-time genetic counselors to join our growing team at Golisano Childrens Hospital.

URMC is a major regional provider of genetics services in upstate New York with robust and highly regarded programs in pediatric and adult genetics neurogenetics ocular genetics and prenatal/reproductive genetics. Our Division of Clinical Genetics encompasses Metabolic Genetics Pediatric Genetics Adult Genetics and Cancer Genetics and we are actively expanding our services to support additional specialty areas including cardiogenetics skeletal dysplasia immunology and more.

The genetic counselors who join our team will share clinical and teaching responsibilities across both pediatric and adult general genetics addition counselors may support a variety of subspecialty clinics such as nephrology hearing loss gastroenterology/hepatology pulmonology cardiology rheumatology craniofacial endocrine and immunology depending on areas of interest and program needs.

We are committed to supporting the professional growth of our genetic counselors. Opportunities for continuing education research involvement and local national and international teaching or presentation engagements are available and encouraged.

Completion of an accredited genetic counseling training program.
Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with patients families trainees and colleagues.
Comfort working with individuals of all ages from infants to adults.
Commitment to a collaborative team-oriented work environment.
Ability to work efficiently within an electronic medical record system.
Prior post-training experience is welcome but not required.