Pediatric Genetic Counselor

Job Description Summary

Pediatric genetic counselor position available for July 2026 hire. The Pediatric Genetic Counselor in the Children’s Specialty Clinics provides genetic education, counseling, and support to patients and/or families who have genetic disorders, birth defects, or who may be at risk for inherited conditions. Works as part of a multidisciplinary team including medical geneticists and other practitioners.

About the Role

The entity is the Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA), and the worker type is Employee, worker sub-type is Regular, cost center is CC005600, CHSCorp - Genetic Counseling, pay grade is Health-30, scheduled weekly hours are 40, work shift is TBD.

Responsibilities

• Elicits medical history, family history and constructs pedigree to assess risk for genetic disease occurrence or recurrence;
• Evaluates complex medical and genetic literature from a variety of sources and incorporates into patient counseling and management;
• Explains available testing options including risks, benefits and limitations of testing;
• Collaborates with genetic counseling team, MD supervisor(s) and multidisciplinary care team;
• Facilitates referrals as indicated;
• Provides genetic education, counseling, and psychosocial support for patients/families;
• Reviews referrals and triages cases;
• Supports operations of genetics clinic;
• Performs administrative and day-to-day operational clinical activities including record review and patient charting;
• Writes detailed consultation reports conveying complex genetic concepts to patients and referring physicians;
• Collaborates on research and/or quality improvement projects;
• Mentors new genetic counselor hires.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Genetic Counseling from an ACGC-accredited program;
• Board certification by ABGC (if not yet certified, candidate must be ABGC board-eligible at time of hire and obtain certification within one year);
• South Carolina Genetic Counselor Licensure (or eligibility for licensure - limited licensure may be obtained for those awaiting ABGC results).

Qualifications

Demonstrates in-depth medical knowledge in practice area(s) and interprets most genetic results with minimal oversight/guidance; identifies or creates patient support resources for indications encountered in practice; provides clinical supervision for genetic counseling students; teaches genetics/genetic counseling content to medical/genetic trainees; implements systems to collect, maintain and analyze operational data; collaborates on research and/or quality improvement projects; mentors new genetic counselor hires.

Skills

Not specified.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Salary Pay Grade Health-30.

Schedule

TBD.