Transplant Donor Coordinator - Night Shift

Job Type: Full Time

Remote Employment: This role is fully remote in all the listed states below except for applicants living in Seattle, WA and Bethlehem, PA, where there is a hybrid schedule.

Hiring Locations: For this position, the states we hire in are limited to: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. Please only apply if you live in one of these states.
Primary Purpose:

In this position, you will serve on a team of motivated and passionate professionals responsible for coordinating the lifesaving and life-enhancing donation of musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and ocular tissue. The role is comprised of three major functions: (i) comprehensive medical screenings, (ii) discussing donation options with potential donor families, and (iii) managing tissue recovery logistics.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Donor Eligibility and Medical Screening

• Evaluates donation potential by conducting an assessment of the patient?s clinical course and health history; this is done through the use of electronic medical record access and working directly with hospital nurses and physicians in a professional, efficient, and precise manner.
• Communicates donor medical information to national tissue processors and partners to ensure acceptability of potential tissue.
• Continually monitors research requests to meet distribution needs for research tissue.

Donation Discussions and Advocacy

• Informs and supports donor families through the donation process and empowers them to make an informed decision on donation.
• Advocates for donation by highlighting the lasting impact donation gifts have on recipients. Addresses concerns families may have.
• Partners with donor families to uphold patient?s donor registries and end-of-life wishes.
• Completes necessary documentation with legal next-of-kin to authorize the recovery of tissue for transplant and research.
• Performs a donor risk assessment interview with families to ensure the safety of donor tissue for recipients.

Tissue Recovery Logistics and Case Management

• Dispatches technicians and recovery teams to hospitals and other facilities to procure consented tissues for transplant and research.
• Actively problem-solves logistical issues to ensure the safe recovery of donated tissue.
• Coordinates closely with medical examiners and coroners to obtain release for donation and creates recovery plans that ensure timely donation (while not interfering with autopsies and death investigation).
• Manages several active donor cases at a time with exceptional attention to detail, efficiency and quality.

Qualifications:

To be successful in this position, an individual should be able to perform each essential duty proficiently. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Excellent oral/written communication and team-building skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with all Eye Bank staff and contribute to a positive environment both in person and remotely.
• Ability to facilitate self-initiated and virtual learning.
• Position requires extensive use of the telephone, extended sitting and long duration's in front of a computer screen. Must be able to stay focused and engaged.
• Proficient in working with computers and managing several programs at a time is required.
• Able to interpret and follow written direction.
• Possess an Internet speed of at least 50mbps
• Ability to work long hours, nights, and weekends. Ability to work a flexible schedule that spans all shifts and days.

Education and/or Equivalent Experience:

• High School or equivalent
• 0-2 years of donor coordination or eye banking experience
• Bachelor?s Degree in related field preferred
• Relevant educational or work experience preferred

Wage Range:

For California outside of the SF Bay Area, New York, and Western Washington State, the range is $22.72 ? 24.53.

For and Eastern Washington State, the range is $20.44 ? 22.08.

For the San Francisco (SF) Bay Area of California, the range is $26.12 ? 28.21.

Other Compensation:

• This role is also entitled to bonuses and shift differential payments, including a 10% Night Shift differential for all hours worked between 6:00PM ? 6:00AM local time.

Benefits:

• Paid Time Off with a starting maximum of 144.04 hours per year
• 8 Company-Paid Holidays per year
• 100% employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for employees and their eligible dependents
• Employer-paid Employee Assistance Program, Travel Assistance, Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Short-Term Disability, and Health Reimbursement plans
• Offerings of Supplemental Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment for employee and their eligible dependents
• A Regional ORCA Transit Pass for Seattle-based full-time employees
• An employee may voluntarily designate a percentage of their salary towards employer-sponsored 401k. Lions World Vision Institute will match the employee?s contribution up to 4% of the employee?s salary.
• Discounts on Pet Insurance and other items such as phone plans, movie tickets, etc.

Physical Requirements (for essential functions):

The physical demands representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job include but are not limited to regularly required to sit, stand, talk, see and hear; needing to possess conversational hearing, with and without aid, as well as adequate vision; required to possess dexterity to operate standard office equipment; occasionally required to lift 25 pounds or more. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Lions World Vision Institute is an equal opportunity employer.