Advanced Therapies Clinical Coordinator (RN License Required)

About Shields Advanced Therapies

Advanced therapies represent one of the most significant shifts in modern healthcare, yet health systems face substantial operational, clinical, and financial barriers to adoption.

Shields Advanced Therapies was created to solve this challenge, partnering with leading academic medical centers and pharmaceutical companies to build the infrastructure necessary to bring these breakthrough treatments to more patients.

The company is led by a seasoned leadership team and is grounded in Shields' longstanding commitment to culture, hospital partnership, and delivering better patient care at the lowest possible cost.

Today, Shields Advanced Therapies is anchored by 8 of the Top 20 Academic Medical Centers in the United States and Shields' 40+ year track record of partnering with over 1,000 hospitals across 43 states provides a natural channel for continued expansion.

Role Overview

The Advanced Therapies Clinical Coordinator provides comprehensive coordination of all services and systems to provide an organized and efficient multi-disciplinary team approach for the care of patients receiving advanced therapies at Houston Methodist Hospital.

The role will help to shape the development and evolution of advanced therapies at Houston Methodist Hospital, serving to enhance its overall effectiveness, productivity, and quality.

This position serves as the glue for facilitating an organized and comprehensive approach to the management of patients undergoing advanced therapies across settings of care and the trajectory of illness - delivering the best possible clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, and provider satisfaction in the process.

Core Responsibilities

Patient & Therapy Coordination / Facilitation

Coordinate the entry and integration of prospective patients into and through the advanced therapies care journey, ensuring timely evaluations and collaboration among the different disciplines involved, including but not limited to the following duties:

• Execute bespoke pathways tailored to each product covered by the advanced therapy program across hospital partner service lines and therapeutic programs
• Develop timeline for therapy based on patient status, product availability, and program schedule
• Ensure evaluations including testing are completed in accordance with program SOPs and in the appropriate timeframe to meet timeline
• Coordinate with manufacturers to ensure manufacturing slot is secured and facilitated and financial assistance is facilitated and secured (if appropriate)
• Coordinate with insurer, pharmacy vendors and/or hospital partner pharmacy to ensure mobilization medications are available within desired timeframe
• Communicate with patients and caregivers across care journey, including appointments, testing and procedures, consents, and documentation
• Collaborate with the inpatient and outpatient medical care teams and other services (apheresis, radiology, radiation therapy, cell therapy laboratory, OR, etc.) to coordinate and schedule mobilization, collection, admission and infusion
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders if/when there is overlap with research (expanded access protocol, off-label use, etc.)
• Assess patient/family physiologic, psychosocial and financial needs. Based upon assessment, make recommendations to social work, financial planning, etc.
• Coordinate transportation, housing, meals, and other patient support programs
• Educate patients and families to assist in understanding the disease, processes and procedures related to mobilization, collection and infusion of advanced therapy products
• Collaborate with program's Financial Coordinators to ensure all required approvals are obtained for procedures as appropriate
• Coordinate all aspects of patient's care, from enrollment to transition of care, and through all follow ups, including facilitating data collection requirements
• Transition patient case to appropriate team within or outside of Houston Methodist Hospital
• Accountable to ensure that all patients who are being evaluated receive care in an organized, consistent, efficient, and high-quality manner

Program Development

Participate in the development of systems and tools for management of the function, including:

• Developing and operationalizing workflows for internal and external patient identification, enrollment, care coordination, and support across all products, disease programs, and sites of care
• Establishing data collection/tracking standards and the development of a data repository and tracking tool over time
• Participate in the development and implementation of clinical programs and procedures and the program's performance improvement and quality programs to promote positive outcomes
• Ensure any data being handled at any point throughout the patient journey is tracked in an accurate, organized and consistent manner and made available to quality and/or data management personnel
• Serve as a clinical and educational consultant to the nursing staff, medical staff, management, other members of the health care team and external vendors regarding the management of advanced therapy patients
• Opportunities to participate in the growth of the program and business unit within and outside Houston Methodist Hospital, including participating in/travelling to the implementation/integration of programs at other health systems

Credentials & Requirements

• Ideal candidate will have 4+ years of oncology, bone marrow transplant, cellular therapy, and/or gene therapy experience
• Previous Nurse Navigation or Care Coordination experience preferred
• Registered Nurse licensure required – TX preferred
• Bachelor's degree required

Compensation

• Competitive base salary with bonus opportunity tied to outcomes metrics, with comprehensive benefits coverage also offered