Offer summary

Qualifications:

Empathy, patience, and respect for patients and their situations are essential., Strong writing, communication, and problem-solving skills are required., A Bachelor's degree in biology or a related field is preferred., Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Excel, and Word is necessary..

Key responsibilities:

Support genetic counseling services for patients undergoing genetic tests.

Coordinate the genetic testing process among genetic counselors and laboratory locations.

Facilitate communication between genetic counselors and client health care providers.

Engage in mentorship and patient shadowing experiences as part of the internship.

Job description

At the Vitrolife Group, we work every day to unlock the full potential of science and technology to reduce the barriers towards building a family. Together we help our customers and their patients to fulfill the dream of having a baby.

Internship Overview

We are seeking a genetic counseling intern who is motivated to support patients through their reproductive journey. This internship is a great opportunity to work in Vitrolife Group's genetic counseling department alongside Genetic Counseling Assistants (GCA) and Genetic Counselors (GC). This unpaid internship is a 6-month minimum, 15-20 hours/week obligation. Advancement to a paid, full time GCA position can be considered, depending on interest, performance, and job availability. Interns have opportunities for mentorship from GCAs and GCs as well as patient shadowing experiences.

Responsibilities

Support genetic counseling services to patients for the genetic tests offered by Vitrolife Grecially for preimplantation genetic testing for monogenic disorders (PGT-M) and preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A). Help coordinate the genetic testing process among genetic counselors, laboratory locations, and administrators within Vitrolife Group. Facilitate communication between Vitrolife Group Genetic Counselors and our client health care providers. Additional opportunities can be provided depending on interest and performance.

Requirements

Empathy, patience, and respect for patients and their situations

Superior writing ability, attention to detail, communication, and problem-solving skills

Ability to work independently and efficiently, and also excellent skills in teamworking and collaboration.

Interest in a career path in genetic counseling and/or infertility/ART

Proficiency with Microsoft, including Outlook, Excel, and Word

Bachelor’s degree in biology or related field preferred

Preferred commitment is at least 6 months, 15-25 unpaid hours/week.

Vitrolife Group is a global provider of medical devices and genetic services. Based on science and advanced research capabilities, we develop services and products for personalised genetic information and medical device products. We support our customers by improving their clinical practice for the patient's outcome of a fertility treatment.

We are currently approximately 1 100 colleagues worldwide, with headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden. Vitrolife Group's products and services are available in more than 110 countries through our own presence in 30 countries and a network of distributors. Vitrolife Group is a sustainable market leader and aims to be the preferred partner for IVF-clinics by providing superior products and services with the vision of fulfilling the dream of having a baby. The Vitrolife share is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.

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