Baptist Health is looking for a Prenatal Genetic Counselor to join our team in Louisville, KY!
The Prenatal Genetic Counselor provides genetic counseling to prenatal patients, specifically supporting the Baptist Health Louisville and Baptist Health Lexington maternal fetal medicine practices. The Prenatal Genetic Counselor participates in the care of women referred for the full scope of preconception and pregnancy-related genetic indications. The genetic counselor provides genetic counseling services both in person and by telehealth. Risk assessment, coordination of genetic testing, and interpretation of genetic test results are integral responsibilities of this position. This position is a member of a supportive team of maternal fetal medicine providers, as well as a genetic counseling team comprised of genetic counselors and genetic counseling assistants. The Prenatal Genetic Counselor is eager, motivated, and passionate about reproductive genetic counseling. The role requires passion for clinical care, excellent communication skills, and collaboration with patients and colleagues.
Qualifications:
Master of Science in Genetic Counseling or equivalent
Two or more years’ experience as a clinical genetic counselor
ABGC Board certification or Active Candidate Status
Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure Genetic Counselor license or eligibility
Full-Time, Days
Work Experience
Relevant Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
