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PRIMARY FUNCTION:

The Oncology Nurse Navigator provides expert individualized care coordination to patients, and their families ensuring a timely schedule for diagnostic work-up, results reporting and communication between the patient and the multidisciplinary team ensuring the patient receives necessary referrals and follow-up. The Oncology Nurse Navigator serves as an advocate for the patient, promoting timely, competent, compassionate care and enhances the physician/patient relationship improving the experience of the patient with cancer.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Collaborates and continuously partners with chronically ill or high risk patients and their family/caregiver(s), clinic/hospital/specialty providers and staff, and community resources in a team approach.
• Evaluates the needs of cancer patients and educate them about their cancer diagnosis
• Prepares patients and caregivers for what to expect throughout the cancer care continuum
• Creates and promotes adherence to a care plan, developed in coordination with the patient, PCP, oncologist and family/caregiver(s)
• Provides clinical support to Patient Navigators and Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) patients
• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson
• Educate patients and families about disease process and potential side effects
• Assist patient with treatment decision making; develop and use decision aids as appropriate
• Attend and support Tumor Board
• Reduce emergency room utilization and hospital readmissions through outpatient
  symptom management
• Follow patients throughout the care continuum including inpatient admissions in
  collaboration with inpatient care management resources
• Support transitions of care and coordination between SKCC sites
• Provide clinical consultation to the Patient Navigators
• Educate multidisciplinary colleagues about the role of the Nurseand Patient
  Navigators, identified barriers, available resources and the navigation process
• Support program growth and patient experience in all patient interactions

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing required
• Registered Nurse in Pennsylvania
• Three (3) years of Healthcare/Medical, experience in Oncology/Cancer Care preferred

Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, a dynamic university and health system with broad reach across the Delaware Valley. Jefferson is the second largest employer in Philadelphia and the largest health system in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds.

Through the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University in 2017, our University includes ten colleges and four schools. We are an NCAA Division II university and an R2 national doctoral university offering undergraduate and graduate-level programs that provide students with a forward-thinking education in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion and textiles, health, medicine and social science.

Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown from a three-hospital academic health center in 2015, to an 18-hospital health system through mergers and combinations that include hospitals at Abington Health, Aria Health, Kennedy Health, Magee Rehabilitation and Einstein Healthcare Network. We have over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers; ten Magnet®-designated hospitals (recognized by the ANCC for nursing excellence); the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (one of only 70 in the country and one of only two in the region); and one of the largest faculty-based telehealth networks in the country. In 2021, Jefferson Health became the sole owner of HealthPartners Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are the first health system regionally to create an aligned payer-provider partnership.

Jefferson’s mission, vision and values create an organization that attracts the best and the brightest students, faculty, staff, and healthcare professionals, as well as the most visionary leaders to drive exceptional results.

• OUR MISSION: We improve lives.
• OUR VISION: Reimagining health, education and discovery to create unparalleled value
• OUR VALUES: Put People First, Be Bold & Think Differently and Do the Right Thing

As an employer, Jefferson maintains a commitment to provide equal access to employment. Jefferson values diversity and encourages applications from women, members of minority groups, LGBTQ individuals, disabled individuals, and veterans.