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Satellite Healthcare Kidney Care Options Educator in Austin, Texas
WHAT YOU WILL DO
As a Kidney Options Educator, you will collaborate with internal and external customers to provide patients and their caregivers with renal options education and ensures a positive customer experience for every patient. This will occur from the first point of referral, through modality options education, access placement, follow-up, and (as applicable) eventual admission into one of Satellite Healthcare's dialysis centers. The Kidney Options Educator actively collaborates with Operations and field staff and promotes home modalities to physicians, patients, and other internal/external groups utilizing the Satellite Healthcare Options Education Program and supporting materials.
WHAT WE EXPECT OF YOU
You will play a vital role in ensuring that we deliver on our Mission to make life better for those with kidney disease and our Vision to be unsurpassed in our individualized experience, our quality, and our compassion. You approach your work with an indisputable sense of greater purpose. You are patient-centric and have a track record of leading interdisciplinary teams in providing quality care. Lastly, you are high energy, seek out opportunities to improve the environment for patients and staff, are goal-oriented, and gain deep satisfaction from building relationships.
WHAT YOU WILL GAIN
Relationships: You will work directly with a multi-disciplinary team that is as passionate as you in making a difference in others' lives. You will be a servant leader, bringing up your team to provide care that is unsurpassed by others in our industry.
Impact: You will set the tone that enables our patients to live a better life and address their needs holistically. You will make a difference for our patients so that they do dialysis to live instead of living for dialysis.
Growth: You will have formal and informal opportunities for professional growth in a supportive environment. You will become a subject-matter expert and have a wide range of opportunities for career advancement.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS :
Experience:
Registered Nurse, CCHT, Registered Dietitian, or Social Worker (LCSW is required for Social Workers) with a minimum of 1 year of home dialysis experience required
Minimum of (2) years of Nephrology experience; a combination of in-center, acute, peritoneal, and home hemodialysis is highly preferred
Education:
- Graduation from an accredited nursing school or equivalent, BSN preferred or four-year degree for Registered Dietitian or Social Worker
License/Certification:
- If a nurse, a current Registered Nurse license in the state of practice or in accordance with the applicable state's Board of Nursing rules for the Nursing Licensure Compact (NCL). Social Worker licensure in state of practice.
Satellite Healthcare, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Satellite Healthcare, Inc. does not discriminate in employment on account of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, age, sex (including sexual harassment), sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status or unfavorable discharge from military service.