Transplant Coordinator (RN) - Post Lung
- Employer
- University of Virginia
- Location
- Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Caring for lung transplant recipients requires exceptional clinical judgment, coordination, and compassion. This role offers the opportunity to become a trusted clinical partner in a highly specialized transplant program, helping patients navigate complex medical needs while supporting long-term transplant success.
As a Transplant Coordinator RN within UVA Health's growing Lung Transplant Program, you will work closely with transplant pulmonologists, nurse practitioners, and multidisciplinary care teams to provide comprehensive outpatient care for lung transplant recipients. This is an outstanding opportunity for nurses who enjoy complex clinical problem-solving, value meaningful patient relationships, and want to develop expertise in one of healthcare's most specialized areas of practice.
The Role
As the Post-Lung Transplant Coordinator, you will serve as a central point of contact for patients throughout their post-transplant journey, helping to ensure continuity of care while managing complex clinical situations in an outpatient environment. This role blends direct patient interaction, care coordination, education, triage, and collaboration with specialty providers.
In an average day, you will:
- Coordinate care for lung transplant recipients across the outpatient continuum.
- Partner directly with transplant pulmonologists, nurse practitioners, and interdisciplinary team members to support individualized patient care plans.
- Triage patient concerns and assess clinical issues related to rejection, infection, medication management, and other post-transplant complications.
- Serve as a clinical resource for patients and caregivers, providing education and guidance throughout recovery and long-term follow-up.
- Support ongoing monitoring of medically complex patients and help facilitate timely interventions when concerns arise.
- Manage patient calls, care coordination needs, and communication among multiple healthcare providers.
- Build meaningful long-term relationships with transplant recipients and their families during an important chapter of their lives.
This position offers a unique balance of autonomy, advanced clinical decision-making, patient advocacy, and collaborative team-based care. Nurses who enjoy critical thinking, clinical complexity, and longitudinal patient management will find this role especially rewarding.
Why UVA Health
UVA Health is nationally recognized for delivering leading-edge care while advancing the future of medicine through academic excellence, research, education, and innovation. As part of UVA Health's Transplant Center, you'll contribute to a program dedicated to helping patients achieve life-changing outcomes through advanced transplant care.
What makes this opportunity stand out:
- Join a growing Lung Transplant Program with expanding transplant volumes and increasing opportunities for professional growth and impact.
- Develop highly specialized expertise in transplant medicine, pulmonology, immunology, chronic disease management, and complex care coordination.
- Benefit from a comprehensive six-month orientation program designed to support your transition into transplant nursing.
- Attend formal transplant education, including a two-week NATCO transplant course, providing a strong clinical foundation for success.
- Collaborate in an academic medicine environment alongside transplant pulmonologists, advanced practice providers, and experienced transplant clinicians.
- Work with a supportive, close-knit team committed to mentorship, learning, and shared clinical excellence.
- Make a lasting difference by helping transplant recipients achieve successful long-term outcomes and improved quality of life.
- Transplant experience is preferred but not required, making this an exceptional opportunity for experienced nurses seeking a specialty practice area.
- Relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates.
This role is strategically important to the continued growth of the Lung Transplant Program and offers a rare opportunity to build expertise that is difficult to find elsewhere in healthcare.
Why People Love Living in Charlottesville
Charlottesville offers an exceptional quality of life, combining the energy of a vibrant university community with the charm and beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Residents enjoy easy access to hiking, cycling, wineries, farmers markets, live music, and a nationally recognized food scene. With a welcoming community atmosphere, excellent schools, short commute times, and abundant outdoor recreation opportunities, Charlottesville provides an outstanding balance between a meaningful healthcare career and a fulfilling personal life.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited nursing program required.
Experience: 2 years of relevant experience.
Licensure: Licensed to Practice as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia. American Heart Association (AHA) Health Care Provider BLS certification required. Relevant specialty board certification strongly preferred.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Job requires standing for prolonged periods, frequently traveling, bending/stooping. Proficient communicative, auditory and visual skills; Attention to detail and ability to write legibly; Ability to lift/push/pull 20 - 50lbs. May be exposed to chemicals, blood/body fluids and infectious disease.
The pay range for this role is $97,344.00 - $127,857.60 annually. Individual compensation will be determined by the selected candidate's qualifications, previous work experience, and/or education.Benefits- Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Retirement Savings
- Long-term and Short-term Disability
- Health Saving Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Certification and Education Support
The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Learn more about UVA’s commitment to non-discrimination and equal opportunity employment.
Organization
In 1819, the University of Virginia established a new model for intellectual exchange and cross-disciplinary collaboration in higher education. Two hundred years later, as a major research institution, we continue to challenge conventions, lead with ingenuity and advance knowledge for the common good.
What began as an innovative idea has become one of the nation’s leading public research universities, with over 21,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. UVA also has over 3,000 full-time faculty offering more than 400 degrees.
Each of the University’s eleven schools has its own distinctive mission, working together to garner consistently high rankings—including #2 Best Value Public College (Princeton Review, 2016), #3 Public University in the Nation (U.S. News & World Report, 2016), and #3 Best Value Among Public Colleges (Kiplinger’s, 2016).
As we invest in and strengthen our research capabilities, UVA seeks new faculty ready to uncover new insights, rewrite old rules and collaborate on intellectual discoveries.
RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS THAT CROSS DISCIPLINES
As an R1 institution, the University’s research centers, consortia and laboratories are on the leading edge of discovery and technology, offering collaborative spaces for students and faculty to solve global problems.
Our professors are recognized members of major national scholarly and professional organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Our faculty’s engagement in interdisciplinary research is being facilitated by new research institutes specializing in everything from big data to brain functioning, and by cluster hires across schools.
NATIONALLY RANKED HEALTH SYSTEM
UVA is also home to a nationally renowned academic medical center and the UVA Health System, which serves a three-part mission to treat patients, conduct translational research and train medical practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines.
Established as the nation’s 10th medical school in 1825, the institution has since grown to include a 612-bed hospital and a Level I trauma center, nationally recognized cancer and heart centers, a Children’s Hospital, and primary and specialty clinics throughout Central Virginia.
The UVA Medical Center is consistently ranked among the nation’s best hospitals by the U.S. News & World Report magazine and has been named among the top 25 percent in seven specialties.
INSPIRING STUDENTS, INSPIRED TEACHING
The vast majority of UVA students come from the top 10% of their high school class, as well as from all 50 states, over 142 countries and a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Despite their diversity, all UVA students share a love of learning and a drive to achieve.
One of the reasons students choose Virginia is our unique residential culture. At UVA, the community of students, faculty and staff personifies the Jeffersonian idea that living and learning are connected. The Academical Village was constructed to support a unique residential experience, with faculty living in the Pavilions, students occupying Lawn rooms and the world-famous Rotunda at its heart. The University’s residential culture continues to support this experience today—strengthened by students, faculty and staff rich in backgrounds, ideas and perspectives. Our unique culture is also paying dividends in innovation: UVA’s faculty have generated more than 130 patents since 2010.
Perhaps most importantly, faculty come to UVA knowing that instruction is as important as research, and they pride themselves on their many teaching awards. Our best professors look for ways to encourage, mentor and develop tomorrow’s leaders inside and outside the classroom.
LIFE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
Living in Charlottesville you’ll find sophisticated restaurants, world-renowned wineries and breweries, cosmopolitan arts and music, friendly urban and suburban neighborhoods and a Piedmont landscape that has lured adventurous souls for centuries. No wonder the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research named Charlottesville the “happiest city in America” in 2014.
In addition to UVA and its health system, several major employers have facilities in Charlottesville, including State Farm, Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Department of Defense, GE and others. Charlottesville is also becoming a center for innovative start-up businesses. The University also actively helps spouses and partners of faculty members build their networks and pursue employment opportunities with a wide variety of area employers.
The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
- Telephone
- 434-985-4532
- Location
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2420 Old Ivy
Charlottesvle
Virginia
22911-7433
United States
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