Breast Imaging Navigator & Patient Care Advocate

Jobtome; Addison (IL); In loco; USD 55.000 - 85.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Parkland Health & Hospital System is seeking a Mammography Patient Navigator to guide patients through their breast imaging journey. The navigator builds relationships with patients, families, physicians, and caregivers to coordinate screening, diagnosis, and treatment workflows, ensuring timely, cost-effective care compliant with program policies.

The role requires a licensed imaging professional and solid experience in breast imaging operations, coordination of care, and patient advocacy.

Competenze

• Must be able to demonstrate time management, organizational, interpersonal skills with emphasis on attention to detail including oral, written, communication and advanced computer skills.
• Must be able to utilize motivational interviewing skills to stress the importance of breast imaging.
• Must have the ability to instruct, lead patient education regarding breast health.
• Must be able to assist with managing follow-up visits and ensuring continuation of care.
• Must be able to demonstrate patient centered and patient valued behaviors, to include coordination of patient barriers such as transportation, childcare, and financial needs

Mansioni

• Schedules patients for biopsies, six-month follow-up imaging and other imaging procedures as requested (as needed).
• Contacts patients that are lost to follow-up for rescheduling.
• Communicates, consults, and educates patients ensuring that patients are as comfortable as possible.
• Works with the Mobile Coordinator to ensure patients screened at the outreaches receive their follow-up imaging in a timely manner.
• Reviews EPIC daily for pathology results from biopsy and provides the results to the radiologist and RN navigators to ensure the patients are provided with their biopsy results in a timely manner (as needed).
• Conducts comprehensive assessment of patient in person, by telephone or by review of medical records. Gathers information from patient records and consults clinical team as needed. Determines financial and medical status by reviewing patient's diagnosis, recommended treatment, funding sources and special needs according to Parkland policies and procedures. Determines other barriers that patients may have and determines resources to reduce the barriers, transportation, childcare, counselors.

Descrizione del lavoro

Parkland Health & Hospital System is seeking a Mammography Patient Navigator to guide patients through their breast imaging journey. The navigator builds relationships with patients, families, physicians, and caregivers to coordinate screening, diagnosis, and treatment workflows, ensuring timely, cost-effective care compliant with program policies.

The role requires a licensed imaging professional and solid experience in breast imaging operations, coordination of care, and patient advocacy.