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Transplant Assistant - Transplant Surgery Full time Days

Company: 
Northwestern Medicine
City: 
Chicago
State: 
Illinois
Employment type: 
Full time
Remote Position: 
No
Required degree level: 
Other

Benefits

  • $10,000 Tuition Reimbursement per year ($5,700 part-time)
  • $10,000 Student Loan Repayment ($5,000 part-time)
  • $1,000 Professional Development per year ($500 part-time)
  • $250 Wellbeing Fund per year($125 for part-time)
  • Matching 401(k)
  • Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage
  • Life insurance
  • Annual Employee Salary Increase and Incentive Bonus
  • Paid time off and Holiday pay



Northwestern Medicine is powered by a community of colleagues who are purpose-driven and committed to our mission to deliver world-class care. Here, you'll work alongside some of the best clinical talent in the nation leading the way in medical innovation and breakthrough research with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

We recognize where you've been, and we support where you're headed. We celebrate diverse perspectives and experiences, which fuel our commitment to equity and culture of service.

Grow your career with comprehensive training and development opportunities, mentorship programs, educational support and student loan repayment.

  • Create the life you envision for yourself with flexible work options, a Reimbursable Well-Being Fund and a Total Rewards package that support your physical, mental, emotional and financial well-being.
  • Make a difference through volunteer opportunities we offer in local communities and drive inclusive change through our workforce-led resource groups.


From discovery to delivery, come help us shape the future of medicine.

Description

Work Hours: Monday - Friday, 8am to 4:30pm or 8:30am to 5:00pm

The Transplant Assistant reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, adheres to the organization's Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

The Transplant Assistant is a non-RN member of the intake team that handles the evaluation of the organ, recipient and donors. The Transplant Assistant works under the direction of the RN Transplant Coordinator for all aspects of the job. The Assistant facilitates the process of intake from the first contact up to transplant.

Responsibilities:

Under the direction of the Transplant Nurse Coordinator (TNC):

  • Schedules recipients/donor initial appointments, special follow-up appointments, and medical work-ups.
  • Enters test orders, documents and retrieves test results for RN evaluation.
  • Coordinates scheduling with (but not limited to): physicians, admitting, PFS liaison, lab department,psychiatry, and social work.
  • Assists in the arrangements of living related/non-related organ donation and transplantation asdirected by the RN Transplant Coordinator.
  • Assembles packets of information for patients/ patients' families to be used at meetings, educationsessions, or individually, both handed out or mailed.
  • Works with PFS liaison to obtain insurance information for all patients prior to or on the evaluationday.
  • Maintains contact with the organ and donor candidates in order to obtain updated medicalinformation and reports.
  • Maintains and updates pre-transplant medical records, files documents, data-entry into database.
  • Assists in the ordering of teaching supplies for the RN Transplant Coordinators.
  • Participates on committees and attends meetings as appropriate.
  • Collaborates with other Clinical Coordinators in order to assure that all responsibilities are coveredwhen one Coordinator is absent. The Assistants may rotate some tasks as appropriate andapproved by the RN Transplant Coordinators.
  • Faxes or mails medical information to the case managers, referring physicians and consultingphysicians.
  • Works with assigned RN Transplant Coordinator to complete job specific tasks.
  • Sets-up and checks-in patients for group meetings.
  • Assists with collecting data information.


Qualifications

Required:

  • 4 yrs. High school
  • Medical experience (e.g. unit secretary, doctor's office, etc.)


Equal Opportunity

Northwestern Medicine is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected status.

While each of our 11 hospitals and more than 200 locations has a unique story, Northwestern Medicine is unified under one vision: to put patients first in everything that we do. Anchored by Northwestern Memorial Hospital in downtown Chicago, Northwestern Medicine brings academic medicine into the heart of local communities across the suburbs and beyond, close to where our patients live and work.

Northwestern Medicine is dedicated to providing the most advanced health care to the communities and patients we serve. The Northwestern Medicine clinical and administrative staff, medical and science faculty, and medical students come together every day with a shared commitment to superior quality, academic excellence, scientific discovery and patient safety.

Northwestern Medicine has:

  • More than 33,000 employees dedicated to exceptional service and care
  • More than 4,400 aligned physicians, including faculty, residents and scientists, offering treatment informed by the latest research from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • 6 hospitals honored by the Magnet® Recognition Program for meeting the highest standards for patient care and nursing excellence
  • Hundreds of locations throughout the Chicagoland area

CULTURE

Our Mission, Vision and Core Values

Whether directly providing patient care or supporting those who do, every Northwestern Medicine employee has an impact on the quality of the patient experience and the level of excellence we collectively achieve. This knowledge, expressed in our shared commitment to a single, patient-focused mission, unites us.

Mission

Northwestern Medicine is a premier integrated academic health system where the patient comes first.

  • We are all caregivers or someone who supports a caregiver.
  • We are here to improve the health of our community.
  • We have an essential relationship with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
  • We integrate education and research to continually improve excellence in clinical practice.
  • We serve a broad community and strive to bring the best in medicine closer to where patients live and work.

Vision

To be a premier integrated academic health system that will serve a broad community and bring the best in medicine—including breakthrough treatments and clinical trials enhanced through our affiliation with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine—to a growing number of patients close to where they live and work.

Values

Patients first: Putting our patients first in all that we do

Integrity: Adhering to an uncompromising code of ethics that emphasizes complete honesty and sincerity

Teamwork: Team success over personal success

Excellence: Continuously striving to be better

  • “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” (2022): Top score and designated as “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” by the Disability Equality Index
  • “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” (2021): Top score and designated as “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” by the Disability Equality Index

 

 

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