Overview
You're a clinician, a patient advocate and an educator-and you excel at every one of them.
If there's one thing your years of clinical training and patient education have taught you, it's how to manage priorities, and move seamlessly from one challenge to the next. You get people to listen to your wise advice, and to overcome their fears of new and existing medical therapies by instilling confidence and sharing expertise while displaying passion. It's time to turn those diverse talents to an exciting new field, and become an integral part of the Clinical Education team with inVentiv Health.
We are not technically a healthcare provider. We're a groundbreaking network of healthcare services that's global to the core and an outsourced provider of inventive and customizable solutions that transform promising ideas into commercial reality. From clinical, to consulting to commercialization, we streamline processes, power exciting drug therapies and medical devices, and create possibilities for our life science partners, and ultimately patients. WE KNOW THE WAY IN HEALTHCARE.
With over 14,000 employees in 70 Countries, inVentiv Health offers best-in-class clinical development and commercialization services to global healthcare companies seeking to accelerate performance. Our people provide the brilliant ideas, valuable insight and relentless energy that drive biopharma products from lab to life.
Here at inVentiv Health Selling Solutions, a critical segment of our Commercial Division, we offer innovative promotional and educational resources that deliver customized commercial solutions to the world's leading healthcare companies so they can focus on what they do best - prevent and treat disease.
Our high-performance team of sales, market access, clinical educators and medical affairs employees work together with our corporate support professionals and executive leadership in a fast-paced, challenging environment with one single common aspiration: to deliver exceptional service.
Make your work matter everywhere.
Responsibilities
The PES will play a key role in the education of HCPs, conduct peer to peer educational programs, and provide patient follow up pre and post infusion within their assigned territory. The PES will utilize using their professional expertise, relationships and clinical training in the implementation of the client's education plan.
(Duties may include, but are not limited to the following)Accelerate disease state awareness
Educate staff on both clinical and operational aspects of appropriate patient identification
Educate nurse staff on the clinical profile of products including but not limited to clinical benefits and administration requirements
Provide education programs for professional staff, i.e. nurses, other key healthcare staff through 1:1 presentation, round table discussions, formal presentations
Integrate as needed with sales professionals, reimbursement specialists to identify and work within targeted practices
Master all aspects of the clinical and administrative profile of a new cancer medication.
Teaching key external stakeholders (infusion nurses, other medical staff) on the infusion process associated with a new cancer medication.
Partnering with sales and sales management to profile customer accounts, resolve customer issues, and identify new business opportunities
Communicate as required with managers, peers, customer counterparts
Educate practices through presentations and workshops
Initiate clinical discussions with key personnel in each account (MD (as needed), nurse practitioner, infusion nurse, physician's assistant, clinic nurses).
May provide pre and post infusion follow up via telephone support to patients undergoing treatment for multiple myeloma.
Attend and provide clinical information and/or presentations at national, regional and local meetings
Provides staff support, as appropriate at exhibit booths and displays as required
May be asked to attend clinically relevant meetings for personal/professional development
Attends Plan of Action meetings with the customer as requested
Professional Responsibilities
Provides relevant information to the customer and field manager/Project Leader in the form of business plan
Stays current in clinical developments related to specific disease state
Develops and maintains advanced presentation skills to facilitate dissemination of clinical information
Checks voice mail and email daily as directed
Documents all interactions, customer profile information daily as directed
Additional Responsibilities
Provides educational support as identified to reinforce the project's strategic goals
Promptly respond to internal/external communications.
Completes all reports and written assignments in a timely, accurate and thorough manner
Maintains the highest level of professional standards in all interactions with customers and other business contacts.
Demonstrates sound judgment with regard to utilization of time and financial resources, such a travel and entertainment.
Reads, understands, and adheres to important documents such as fraud and abuse guidelines, FDA guidelines, PhaRMA code, SOPs, and HIPPA guidelines and memos regarding policy and procedures.
Requirements
Active RN license required. BSN degree required. Advanced Practice degree and/or MSN/MBA preferred.
Strong consideration given to candidates who are OCN and/or Infusion certified. Oncology experience required.
Minimum of three years industry experience preferred
Prior relationships within targeted institutions/infusion centers preferred
Experience with specialty products (preferably Oncology and/or infusion)
Knowledge and/or experience with direct to patient education initiatives preferred
Previous experience in introducing new specialty pharmaceutical/biologics products or indications a plus
Ability to travel locally and overnight 75%
Excellent presentation skills
Strong teamwork abilities
Ability to schedule individual work related travel(air, hotel, rental car as needed) Above average computer skills: PowerPoint, Excel, Word
Ability to travel and possess a valid driver's license to drive toassigned healthcare accounts, unless otherwise specified.
WORK HERE. MATTERS EVERYWHERE
inVentiv Health is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Vet/Disabled)
Position Type/Category
Clinical/Nurse Educator/Nurse/CDE
Travel
More than 50%
Minimum Education Level
Bachelor's Degree