Patient Specialist - Ocean Township, NJ (1099 Contractor, Per Diem/On Call)
for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate etc.
We need to parse the posting.
Let's extract sections:
- About the role: description of company and role. The posting starts with company description and then "The ASSURE Patient Specialist (APS) conducts patient fitting activities...". So we can put that as About the role.
- Responsibilities: The "ESSENTIAL DUTIES" list. That's a list of duties.
- Requirements: The "REQUIREMENTS:" section includes Education/Experience Required etc.
- Qualifications: Might be overlapping with Requirements? The posting also has "Preferred:" under Requirements? Actually after Requirements there is "Preferred: Knowledge of MS Office...". Could treat as Qualifications or Skills. The instructions: Use headings for Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide what content fits.
We have "COMPETENCIES" list: Passion, Integrity, Collaboration/Teamwork, Action/Results, Innovation, Customer Focus, Emotional Intelligence, Highly organized, service and detail orientated, Passionate about heart-failure space, Strong interpersonal skills, Interest and desire for life-long learning. Those could be Skills or Qualifications.
We have "WORK ENVIRONMENT", "PHYSICAL DEMANDS", "TRAVEL", "OTHER DUTIES". Those could be part of Responsibilities or maybe separate sections like Work Environment, Physical Demands, Travel. But we only allowed headings from list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to map other content into these allowed headings. We can put WORK ENVIRONMENT, PHYSICAL DEMANDS, TRAVEL under Responsibilities or maybe Qualifications? Probably Responsibilities includes duties; but environment etc could be part of Responsibilities or maybe Qualifications? The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we can combine.
We have no explicit Benefits, Pay, Schedule content besides "This is a paid per fitting position." and "Flexibility of work schedule and competitive pay provided". That's mention of pay and schedule but not specific numbers. The instruction says: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state "paid per fitting position" and "competitive pay provided" and "Flexibility of work schedule". That's somewhat specific? It says flexibility of work schedule and competitive pay provided. That's still vague but it's stating that there is flexibility and competitive pay. Should we include Pay and Schedule sections? The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state that there is flexibility of work schedule and competitive pay provided. That is a statement about pay and schedule, albeit not specific numbers. I'd argue we can include them, but we must not put filler like "commensurate with experience". Here we have "competitive pay provided" and "Flexibility of work schedule". That's substantive enough? Might be considered thin but it's actual statement. We'll include Pay and Schedule sections with that content.
Benefits: Not mentioned besides maybe "competitive pay". No explicit benefits like health insurance etc. So we should not create Benefits section.
Now we need to format.
We need to use for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We must not repeat job title as heading. The job title is "ASSURE Patient Specialist (APS)". Not to be used as heading.
We must not put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings; none present.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep all details from the posting, but we can rephrase? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Means we should not omit details, but we can reformat. Likely we should keep the exact sentences or close. We'll try to keep the content verbatim where possible, but we can restructure into lists.
We need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. At the end there is EEO statement: "Kestra Medical Technologies, Inc does not discriminate..." That's boilerplate; we should remove it. Also duplicated lines: The company description appears twice at start; we should keep only one instance.
Also "The Kestra team has over 400 years of experience..." appears twice; we keep one.
Now let's extract content.
Company description: "The Kestra team has over 400 years of experience in the external and internal cardiac medical device markets. The company was founded in 2014 by industry leaders inspired by the opportunity to unite modern wearable technologies with proven device therapies. Kestra’s solutions combine high quality and technical performance with a wearable design that provides the greatest regard for patient comfort and dignity. Innovating versatile new ways to deliver care, Kestra is helping patients and their care teams harmoniously monitor, manage, and protect life."
Role description: "The ASSURE Patient Specialist (APS) conducts patient fitting activities in support of the sales organization and the team of Regional Clinical Advisors (RCA). The APS will serve as the local patient care representative to provide effective and efficient patient fittings. We have an opening in Ocean Township, NJ. This is a paid per fitting position."
We could combine company description and role description under About the role.
Now Responsibilities (Essential Duties): list:
- Act as a contractor ASSURE® Patient Specialist (APS) to fit and train local patients with a wearable defibrillator via training assignments dispatched from corporate headquarters.
- The APS will be trained and Certified as an ASSURE Patient Specialist by Kestra.
- Ability to provide instruction and instill confidence in Assure® patients with demonstrated patient care skills
- Willingness to contact prescribers, caregivers and patients to schedule services
- Ability to accept an assignment that could include daytime, evening, and weekend hours
- Travel to hospitals, patient’s homes and other healthcare facilities to provide fitting services
- Measure the patient to determine the correct garment size
- Review and transmit essential paperwork with the patient to receive the Assure® garment and services
- Manage inventory of the Assure® system kits, garments, and electronic equipment used in fittings
- Flexibility of work schedule and competitive pay provided
- Adhere to Pledge of Confidentiality
- Information regarding a patient of this company shall not be released to any source outside of this company without the signed permission of the patient. Furthermore, information will only be released internally on a need-to-know basis.
- All Team Members will not discuss patient cases outside the office or with anyone not employed by this company unless they are directly involved with the patient’s case
Note: Some of these are more like requirements or competencies but they are under ESSENTIAL DUTIES. We'll keep them as responsibilities.
Now Competencies list (maybe Skills):
- Passion: Contagious excitement about the company – sense of urgency. Commitment to continuous improvement.
- Integrity: Commitment, accountability, and dedication to the highest ethical standards.
- Collaboration/Teamwork: Inclusion of Team Member regardless of geography, position, and product or service.
- Action/Results: High energy, decisive planning, timely execution.
- Innovation: Generation of new ideas from original thinking.
- Customer Focus: Exceed customer expectations, quality of products, services, and experience always present of mind.
- Emotional Intelligence: Recognizes, understands, manages one’s own emotions and is able to influence others. A critical skill for pressure situations.
- Highly organized, service and detail orientated
- Passionate about the heart-failure space and a strong desire to make a difference
- Strong interpersonal skills with communicating and assisting clinicians with providing care for patients.
- Interest and desire for life-long learning to continuously improve over time.
We could treat these as Skills.
Now Requirements:
- Education/Experience Required: 1 year in a paid patient care experience (not as a family care giver)
- Clinical or engineering background which may include but is not limited to nurses, cardiac device sales representatives, clinical engineers, catheterization lab technicians, physician assistants, or ECG technicians.
- Disclosure of personal NPI number (if applicable)
- Completion of background check. Florida and Ohio must complete a level 2 screening paid for by Kestra.
- Ability to pay for vendor credentialing upfront during a 90-day probationary period
- Experience in patient and/or clinician education
- Valid driver’s license in state of residence with a good driving record
- Ability to consistently work in the field in and around Brownsville TX. (Note: This seems contradictory to Ocean Township NJ; maybe a mistake but we keep)
- Disclosures are required for any potential relationships and referral sources
- Must be able to achieve credentialing for hospital system entry including, but not limited to:
- Documentation of vaccination and immunization status
- Pass background check
- Pass drug screening testing
- Review and agree to hospital policies and procedures
- Completion of online courses, i.e., HIPAA, Bloodborne Pathogens and Electrical/Fire Safety
- Preferred: Knowledge of MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams
- Direct cardiac patient care experience – RN, RT, CVIS, Paramedic, CRM
We could separate Requirements (mandatory) and Qualifications (preferred). The heading Qualifications could be used for preferred qualifications.
Thus:
- Requirements: mandatory items (education/experience, background check, etc.)
- Qualifications: preferred items (MS Office knowledge, direct cardiac patient care experience)
Now Work Environment, Physical Demands, Travel, Other Duties: we could incorporate into Responsibilities or maybe a separate section like "Working Conditions". But not allowed headings. We could add them under Responsibilities as additional bullet points.
Let's extract:
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Variable conditions during travel
- Minimal noise volume typical to an office or hospital environment
- Possible environmental exposure to infectious disease (hospital and clinic settings)
- Extended hours when needed
- Drug-free
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- Ability to travel by car
- Frequent repetitive motions that may include wrists, hands and/or fingers, such as keyboard and mouse usage
- Frequent stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods of time
- Frequent computer use
- Frequent phone and other business machine use
- Occasional bending and stooping
- Ability to lift up to 40 pounds unassisted, at times from in and out of vehicle
TRAVEL:
- Frequent travel by car in agreed upon geography
OTHER DUTIES:
- This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the Team Member. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.
We'll add these as part of Responsibilities (maybe as sub-bullets). Ensure we keep all.
Now Pay and Schedule:
From posting: "This is a paid per fitting position." and "Flexibility of work schedule and competitive pay provided". We'll create Pay section with "Paid per fitting position; competitive pay provided." Schedule section with "Flexibility of work schedule (including daytime, evening, and weekend hours as needed)."
Now Benefits: none, so omit.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only.
Structure:
About the role
... company description + role description ...
Responsibilities
- ... each duty ...
Requirements
- ... each requirement ...
Qualifications
- ... each preferred qualification ...
Skills
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose. We must not repeat job title as heading. The job title is "ASSURE Patient Specialist (APS)". Not to be used as heading. We must not put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings; none present. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep all details from the posting, but we can rephrase? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Means we should not omit details, but we can reformat. Likely we should keep the exact sentences or close. We'll try to keep the content verbatim where possible, but we can restructure into lists. We need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. At the end there is EEO statement: "Kestra Medical Technologies, Inc does not discriminate..." That's boilerplate; we should remove it. Also duplicated lines: The company description appears twice at start; we should keep only one instance. Also "The Kestra team has over 400 years of experience..." appears twice; we keep one. Now let's extract content. Company description: "The Kestra team has over 400 years of experience in the external and internal cardiac medical device markets. The company was founded in 2014 by industry leaders inspired by the opportunity to unite modern wearable technologies with proven device therapies. Kestra’s solutions combine high quality and technical performance with a wearable design that provides the greatest regard for patient comfort and dignity. Innovating versatile new ways to deliver care, Kestra is helping patients and their care teams harmoniously monitor, manage, and protect life." Role description: "The ASSURE Patient Specialist (APS) conducts patient fitting activities in support of the sales organization and the team of Regional Clinical Advisors (RCA). The APS will serve as the local patient care representative to provide effective and efficient patient fittings. We have an opening in Ocean Township, NJ. This is a paid per fitting position." We could combine company description and role description under About the role. Now Responsibilities (Essential Duties): list: - Act as a contractor ASSURE® Patient Specialist (APS) to fit and train local patients with a wearable defibrillator via training assignments dispatched from corporate headquarters. - The APS will be trained and Certified as an ASSURE Patient Specialist by Kestra. - Ability to provide instruction and instill confidence in Assure® patients with demonstrated patient care skills - Willingness to contact prescribers, caregivers and patients to schedule services - Ability to accept an assignment that could include daytime, evening, and weekend hours - Travel to hospitals, patient’s homes and other healthcare facilities to provide fitting services - Measure the patient to determine the correct garment size - Review and transmit essential paperwork with the patient to receive the Assure® garment and services - Manage inventory of the Assure® system kits, garments, and electronic equipment used in fittings - Flexibility of work schedule and competitive pay provided - Adhere to Pledge of Confidentiality - Information regarding a patient of this company shall not be released to any source outside of this company without the signed permission of the patient. Furthermore, information will only be released internally on a need-to-know basis. - All Team Members will not discuss patient cases outside the office or with anyone not employed by this company unless they are directly involved with the patient’s case Note: Some of these are more like requirements or competencies but they are under ESSENTIAL DUTIES. We'll keep them as responsibilities. Now Competencies list (maybe Skills): - Passion: Contagious excitement about the company – sense of urgency. Commitment to continuous improvement. - Integrity: Commitment, accountability, and dedication to the highest ethical standards. - Collaboration/Teamwork: Inclusion of Team Member regardless of geography, position, and product or service. - Action/Results: High energy, decisive planning, timely execution. - Innovation: Generation of new ideas from original thinking. - Customer Focus: Exceed customer expectations, quality of products, services, and experience always present of mind. - Emotional Intelligence: Recognizes, understands, manages one’s own emotions and is able to influence others. A critical skill for pressure situations. - Highly organized, service and detail orientated - Passionate about the heart-failure space and a strong desire to make a difference - Strong interpersonal skills with communicating and assisting clinicians with providing care for patients. - Interest and desire for life-long learning to continuously improve over time. We could treat these as Skills. Now Requirements: - Education/Experience Required: 1 year in a paid patient care experience (not as a family care giver) - Clinical or engineering background which may include but is not limited to nurses, cardiac device sales representatives, clinical engineers, catheterization lab technicians, physician assistants, or ECG technicians. - Disclosure of personal NPI number (if applicable) - Completion of background check. Florida and Ohio must complete a level 2 screening paid for by Kestra. - Ability to pay for vendor credentialing upfront during a 90-day probationary period - Experience in patient and/or clinician education - Valid driver’s license in state of residence with a good driving record - Ability to consistently work in the field in and around Brownsville TX. (Note: This seems contradictory to Ocean Township NJ; maybe a mistake but we keep) - Disclosures are required for any potential relationships and referral sources - Must be able to achieve credentialing for hospital system entry including, but not limited to: - Documentation of vaccination and immunization status - Pass background check - Pass drug screening testing - Review and agree to hospital policies and procedures - Completion of online courses, i.e., HIPAA, Bloodborne Pathogens and Electrical/Fire Safety - Preferred: Knowledge of MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams - Direct cardiac patient care experience – RN, RT, CVIS, Paramedic, CRM We could separate Requirements (mandatory) and Qualifications (preferred). The heading Qualifications could be used for preferred qualifications. Thus: - Requirements: mandatory items (education/experience, background check, etc.) - Qualifications: preferred items (MS Office knowledge, direct cardiac patient care experience) Now Work Environment, Physical Demands, Travel, Other Duties: we could incorporate into Responsibilities or maybe a separate section like "Working Conditions". But not allowed headings. We could add them under Responsibilities as additional bullet points. Let's extract: WORK ENVIRONMENT: - Variable conditions during travel - Minimal noise volume typical to an office or hospital environment - Possible environmental exposure to infectious disease (hospital and clinic settings) - Extended hours when needed - Drug-free PHYSICAL DEMANDS: - Ability to travel by car - Frequent repetitive motions that may include wrists, hands and/or fingers, such as keyboard and mouse usage - Frequent stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods of time - Frequent computer use - Frequent phone and other business machine use - Occasional bending and stooping - Ability to lift up to 40 pounds unassisted, at times from in and out of vehicle TRAVEL: - Frequent travel by car in agreed upon geography OTHER DUTIES: - This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the Team Member. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice. We'll add these as part of Responsibilities (maybe as sub-bullets). Ensure we keep all. Now Pay and Schedule: From posting: "This is a paid per fitting position." and "Flexibility of work schedule and competitive pay provided". We'll create Pay section with "Paid per fitting position; competitive pay provided." Schedule section with "Flexibility of work schedule (including daytime, evening, and weekend hours as needed)." Now Benefits: none, so omit. Now we need to output HTML fragment only. Structure:
About the role
... company description + role description ...
Responsibilities
- ... each duty ...
Requirements
- ... each requirement ...
Qualifications
- ... each preferred qualification ...
Skills