Family Support Educator

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⛰️ Colorado, Utah – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote ⛷️ Utah – Remote

💵 $124k - $155k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1993

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🧬 Biotechnology

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💰 $287.5M Post-IPO Equity on 2019-09

Pharmaceuticals • Biotechnology • Healthcare Insurance

Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a pharmaceutical company specializing in breakthroughs in neuroscience to enhance lives. For over 30 years, Acadia has been at the forefront of healthcare, pioneering treatments for conditions like Parkinson’s disease psychosis and Rett syndrome. The company's focus is on developing innovative and novel medicines that address unmet medical needs, especially in therapeutic areas with high demand, such as Prader-Willi syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease psychosis, and other central nervous system disorders. Acadia is dedicated to elevating life by embracing diverse perspectives, fostering collaboration, and advancing scientific research and development.

📋 Description

• Provide disease state, product, and ongoing therapy management education upon request, in consumer friendly language to the Rett community, which may include patients, caregivers, and/or other care team members. Caregiver engagement may take place before, during, and after therapy initiation, through various formats, including in-person, telephonic, and/or virtual interactions. • Determine individual needs of patients and caregivers and serve as an ongoing resource to provide appropriate education and resources accordingly, throughout the various stages of the patient journey. • Collaborates with and provides support for the entire assigned territory, which consists of multiple internal cross-functional partners (Marketing, Sales, Patient Access Team, Medical Affairs, Advocacy, and others), and may require coverage of multiple states. Supports and communicates educational opportunities with cross functional partners, as appropriate. • Possess expert knowledge and provide insights to internal stakeholders including, but not limited to, training leads, marketing partners, advocacy, medical and leadership, in an effort to develop tools and resources to address educational gaps, enhance disease state education, and therapy management strategies to patient families/caregivers. • Demonstrate deep knowledge of disease state, product, and Acadia Customer Support Programs, such as Hub-related and Patient Assistance Programs, and ambassador speaker programs, etc. • May moderate, lead and present caregiver speaker programs as needed, and attend community events within assigned territory. • Provide in-service to physician offices reactively, to educate about the Family Support Educator role, patient support resources provided to caregivers, pre and post enrollment in the program, and foster a dialogue between caregivers and healthcare providers. • Identify and execute on opportunities to provide leadership within the Family Support Educator team and with cross functional partners. • May provide formal mentorship and/or development opportunities with new Family Support Educator team members, and/or to cross functional colleagues interested in Patient Support Services. • Identify training and development opportunities related to Patient Support Services and the broader organization. • Ensures that all actions, both internally and externally, working on Acadia’s behalf are in compliance with all laws, regulations, policies and demonstrates Acadia values.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, with an emphasis in life sciences preferred. RN,MSN, MBA is a plus • To qualify for Family Support Educator requires 5+ years of relevant healthcare of pharmaceutical experience, including at least 2 years in patient support or education. Clinical backgrounds such as hospital nursing, social work, or patient advocacy within rare or neurological disease areas may be considered equivalent. • To qualify for Senior Family Support Educator requires 8+ years of relevant healthcare or pharmaceutical experience, including at least 5 years in patient support or education. Clinical backgrounds such as nursing, social work, patient advocacy, or tenure within a specialty area (e.g., rare disease, neurology, pediatrics) may be considered equivalent to industry experience. • Rare Disease, Product Launch, Advocacy, Medicaid and Medicare expertise strongly preferred with a strong background and understanding of field environment in healthcare industry. • Equivalent combination of relevant education and applicable job experience may be considered.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base, bonus, new hire and ongoing equity packages • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Employer-paid life, disability, business travel and EAP coverage • 401(k) Plan with a fully vested company match 1:1 up to 5% • Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 2-year purchase price lock-in • 15+ vacation days • 13 -15 paid holidays, including office closure between December 24th and January 1st • 10 days of paid sick time • Paid parental leave benefit • Tuition assistance