ASSURE Patient Specialist - Atlanta, GA (Per Diem/On Call)
Kestra Medical Technologies, Inc. is a company founded by industry leaders in the cardiac medical device market, focusing on innovative wearable technologies. The ASSURE Patient Specialist will conduct patient fitting activities, serve as a local patient care representative, and ensure effective patient fittings while managing inventory and scheduling services.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Adhere to Pledge of Confidentiality
- 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
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