Patient Coordinator at Natera

US RemoteFull-timeRemoteInside SalesPosted 2 days ago

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POSITION SUMMARY: The Organ Health Patient Coordinator (PC) is the primary point of contact and dedicated advocate for patients undergoing organ health genetic testing. This role sits at the heart of Natera's mission — ensuring that every patient is supported, informed, and guided with care through each step of their testing journey. This position will be focused on growing the relationship between Natera and its patients to ensure timely management of testing.  Organ Health patients may require a single test or ongoing, long-term monitoring — in either case, the relationships PCs build are essential, whether that means earning the trust of a new patient to complete their first draw or maintaining continuity with patients throughout a recurring testing journey. A natural drive to overcome objections and convert hesitant patients into confident ones is key to growing the business and ensuring no patient is left behind. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: <ul> <li>Serve as the patient's dedicated advocate and single point of contact for all things related to their Organ Health testing experience.</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Assess the needs of patients with a focus on customer support, coordination of logistics, and problem solving.</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Set accurate expectations around sample collection scheduling, turnaround time, billing, and next steps to ensure patients feel informed and confident.</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Respond to patient-generated marketing leads and conduct outbound outreach for applicable patient identification and monitoring programs.</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Appropriately triage and escalate complex issues to cross-functional partners including the MP Team, Organ Health Specialists (OHS/Sales), Territory Managers, Customer Experience, and Billing Teams.</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Participate in rotating weekend on-call coverage to ensure urgent patient needs are addressed in a timely manner.</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Maintain and support a service-oriented relationship with patients</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Ensure all data and analysis requests from different parts of the organization are addressed in a timely manner.</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Identify, nurture and grow patient relationships in order to influence and schedule ongoing testing.</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Performs other duties as assigned.</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">This role works with PHI on a regular basis both in paper and electronic form and has access to various technologies to access PHI (paper and electronic) in order to perform the job.</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Adhere strictly to HIPAA regulations, including verifying patient identity on every interaction conducted.</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Employees must complete training relating to HIPAA/PHI privacy, General Policies and Procedure Compliance training and security training as soon as possible but not later than the first 30 days of hire.</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Must maintain a current status on Natera training requirements.</li> </ul> QUALIFICATIONS: <ul> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Minimum of 2 years of Call Center experience in an inbound and outbound capacity, patient services, or healthcare customer support role.</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Minimum of 2 years of sales experience </li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Background in medical or biological sciences preferred</li> </ul> KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: <ul> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Genuine empathy and compassion; Strong active listening and rapport-building skills with the ability to handle emotionally complex conversations professionally.</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Ability to think strategically as well as execute tactically</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Emphasis on competitive analysis and team first attitude.</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Ability to relate and educate our technology to potential patients</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Comfortable navigating multiple systems and tools simultaneously.</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Self-motivation, with the desire and capacity to work both independently and collaboratively</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Must act with a sense of urgency</li> <li style="color: #494949 !important;">Excellent organizational and communication skills (written and verbal)</li> </ul> <div class="content-conclusion">OUR OPPORTUNITY Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives. The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management. WHAT WE OFFER Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program! For more information, visit <a href="http://www.natera.com/" data-cke-saved-href="http://www.natera.com/">www.natera.com</a>. Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws. If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents.  Link: <a href="https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents" target="_blank">https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/</a> Please be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @<a href="http://natera.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://natera.com&source=gmail&ust=1657718972773000&usg=AOvVaw3zRwaIiu7070kJKNG4hjRm">natera.com</a> email domain ONLY. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. Natera takes cyber crimes seriously, and will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute any related cyber crimes. For more information: - <a href="https://www.bbb.org/article/tips/12261-bbb-tip-employment-scams" target="_blank">BBB announcement on job scams</a>  - <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber" target="_blank">FBI Cyber Crime resource page</a> </div>

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