• Employment Type: Full Time
• Shift: Days
• Hours: 5 (8) hour days or 4 (10) hour days with potential for 1 remote day
• Location: Boston, MA

The Clinical Transplant Coordinator is accountable for coordinating all aspects of care for the transplant patient population. Assesses and plans with the patient, caregiver, and multidisciplinary healthcare team to meet needs across the care continuum. Assesses data reflecting the patient's status and appropriately interprets information relative to the patient's age-specific needs. Provides patient and family education on a consistent basis. Provides leadership through community involvement, committee work, and quality improvement and research participation.

This person represents the Tufts Medical Center to the New England Quality Care Alliance (NEQCA) as well as Tufts Medicine physicians to support greater integration of outpatient and transplant follow up. This person tracks performance data and conducts regular team meetings to review results with physicians, APPs and staff; helps to create, implement and follow-up on action plans to further improve patient outcomes and efficiency of post transplant management.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Communication and Nursing function
• Serves at the Tufts Medical Center Transplant Nursing liaison to NEQCA and other physicians for transplant-related matters
• Maintains detailed current nursing and clinical knowledge of transplant process, patient population and regulatory environment
• Utilizes tools developed to monitor performance
• Facilitates collaborative relationships among the various disciplines and departments to ensure effective quality patient care delivery
• Provides consultation to all new transplant patients and family members regarding transplant care and follow up requirements
• Participates in department administrative meetings
• Actively participates in QAPI activities related to kidney transplant
• Responsible for conducting weekly transplant multi-disciplinary meetings
• Facilitates post transplant plan of care management and presents casesat multidisciplinary meetings
• Focus on maintaining current referral sources and building new relationship along with pre-transplant team
• Provide frequent feedback to referring clinicians about the status of their patients within our program
• Track post-transplant volumes and network relationships.
• Educational Role
• Actively seek new information and maximizes creative options to help aid in ongoing learning needs of all members of the post transplant population.

SKILLS AND QUALITIES

• Mature professional who exhibits the following skills:
• Leadership skills: Lead by example, Positive thinking, focused on goal
• Communication Skills: Listens, persuades, influences others
• Organization skills: Plans, sets goals, analyzes results
• Team building Skills: Sets examples, provides vision delegates, positive, energetic
• Coping skills: Flexible, creative, patient, persistent
• Technical skills: Experience, clinical knowledge and expertise,
• Ability to delegate tasks
• Able to handle situations of high stress and pressure
• Team building skills
• Problem solving skills

EDUCATION:

• BSN required
• BLS Certification required
• ACLS Certification prefered

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• 2-3years ofexperience in Kidney Transplantation, preferably outpatient experience preferred but not required
• Experience withEpic desired
• Knowledgeable in CMS and UNOS regulations
• LICENSES, ETC
• Current Massachusetts Registered Nurse License

AGE SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES:

• Possesses the skills and knowledge to provide care to the age group of the population serviced including:
• Knowledge of growth and development
• Ability to interpret age specific data and response to care
• Provide age specific communication

WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Inpatient or outpatient clinic care areas.
• Continuous exposure to sick patients

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES STATEMENT:

Must be able to perform all essential functions of this position with reasonable accommodation if disabled.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed, as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Tufts Medical Center reserves the right to modify position duties at any time, to reflect process improvements and business necessity.

COVID-19 POLICY:

Please note that effective October 1, 2021, as a condition of employment at Tufts Medical Center, all employees and new hires must have received their complete dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, unless they have been granted an exemption.