Breast Center Nurse Navigator, 40 Hour Days

UMass Memorial Health; United States; Presencial; USD 87 000 - 157 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Signing bonus may be offered

Resumo da oferta

UMass Memorial Health in Massachusetts is seeking a Nurse Navigator for the Cancer Center to guide patients through the diagnostic and treatment process, coordinating care with multiple departments and families. The role emphasizes patient education, care coordination, and outcomes tracking within a high‑performing health system.

Required: Bachelor's in Nursing, MA RN licensure, and at least 5 years of nursing experience with oncology background; preferred: Master's, NAPBC accreditation, and

Qualificações

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing and MA RN licensure.
• Minimum 5 years of nursing experience.
• Experience in teaching, consultation and customer service.
• Strong critical thinking and leadership skills.
• Proficient with computer applications and EMR.

Responsabilidades

• Facilitates the entry of patients into the diagnostic and/or treatment system and coordinates their care including family involvement.
• Assists patients in understanding their diagnosis, treatment options, follow up and resources.
• Utilizes nursing process to assess patients’ physical and psychological status.
• Evaluates progress and collaborates with healthcare team; tracks post-care patients and referrals.
• Coordinates multidisciplinary planning conferences and develops patient summaries.

Conhecimentos

Nursing experience

Teaching/education

Communication skills

Leadership

Critical thinking

Computer literacy

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in Nursing

Massachusetts RN licensure

Master's degree (preferred)

Ferramentas

EMR systems

Microsoft Office

Project Management software

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Exemption Status & Hiring Range

Exemption Status: Exempt Hiring Range: $87,276.80 - $157,081.60 Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details: Monday through Friday Scheduled Hours: 8:00 - 16:30 Shift: 1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America) Hours: 40 Cost Center: 10010 - 3682 Cancer Center

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Guides patients through the healthcare system from screening through diagnosis and follow up, by assisting with access issues, developing relationships with service providers and tracking interventions and outcomes.

Promotes a positive work environment which emphasizes respect to our customers, patients, patients’ families, providers, caregivers, and other departments.

Serves as a clinical expert in the care of these patients.

I. Major Responsibilities

• Facilitates the entry of patients into the diagnostic and/or treatment system and coordinates their care including family involvement. Follows the patients throughout the continuum of health care services across multiple departments.
• Assists patients in understanding their diagnosis, treatment options, recommended follow up and resources available.
• Utilizes nursing process to comprehensively assess the patients’ physical and psychological sta-tus.
• Evaluates progress of patients along the continuum and is responsible for professional and per-sonal modifications along with the healthcare team as appropriate. May assist with tracking of post care patients to ensure post treatment standards of care are met along with referrals. As necessary, ensures that patients receive clinical satisfaction surveys.
• Coordinates and participates in multidisciplinary planning conferences, collaboratively assists with the development of patient summaries for use by care team.

II. Position Qualifications

License/Certification/Education

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
• Current Massachusetts Registered Nurse licensure and registration.

Preferred:

• Masters Degree in Nursing.

Experience/Skills

Required:

• Minimum of 5 years nursing experience.
• Excellent teaching, consultation, and customer service skills.
• Excellent critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrates leadership experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Computer literate with knowledge of Microsoft Office products.

Preferred:

• Skilled with utilization of EMR and other software.
• Experience with Project Management.

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

Department-specific competencies and their measurements will be developed and maintained in the individual departments. The competencies will be maintained and attached to the departmental job description. Responsible managers will review competencies with position incumbents.

III. Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions

Work is considered sedentary.

Position requires work indoors in a patient care and office environment.

ADDENDUM FOR NURSE NAVIGATOR CANCER CENTER ROLE

Position Summary: Same.

Major Responsibilities: Same

Differences in Qualifications

License/Certification/Education

Required:

• Breast Nurse Navigators require accreditation through NAPBC.

Preferred:

• Oncology Certification preferred unless a Breast Nurse Navigator.

Experience/Skills

Required:

• Minimum of 5 years oncology experience in specific disease site (breast, lung, GI, etc) and post-surgical nursing.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We’re striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health – for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [e-mail]. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver. No matter their responsibilities or title, every employee or “caregiver” fills an important role for our patients and their families every day.

Who is a caregiver? It’s not just the person who delivers the care. It’s all the people who make it work … and make it better.

Caregivers give everything that helps patients heal, from expertise to extra attention. They give clean, comfortable rooms. Fast, accurate answers. And an easier, less stressful experience. They give warm, reassuring smiles, and helping hands.

We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, our community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.