Oncology Navigator - Full time - (RN licensure required)

Job description

Department ONCOLOGY SERV LINE ADMIN - 206302: Worker Sub Type Regular Work Shift Pay Grade: Job Description: The role of an Oncology Navigator is to help guide a patient through the healthcare system. This includes help going through the screening, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of cancer. The Oncology Navigator helps patients communicate with their healthcare providers, so they get the information they need to make decisions about their health care. Navigator may also help patients set up appointments for doctor visits and medical tests and get financial, legal, and social support. They may also work with insurance companies, employers, case managers, lawyers, and others who may have an effect on a patient’s healthcare needs. The process of Oncology Navigation helps patients overcome health care system barriers and providing them with timely access to quality medical and psychosocial care from before cancer diagnosis through all phases of their cancer experience. The role and process of oncology navigation, depending on assignments, may also involve responsibilities to coordinate specialized programs designed to serve at-risk populations for developing cancer to include, but...