Navigation Outreach Specialist

Navigation Outreach Specialist
Location Wise, Virginia, United States of AmericaCategory Educational ResourcesJob Id R0056295

The UVA Cancer Center is seeking a Navigation Outreach Specialist for the Southwest Virginia region. The navigation outreach specialist will work in conjunction with staff, faculty, and community partners to support efforts that focus on addressing cancer burden in the community.

This includes cultivating positive long-term relationships with community partners from diverse sectors to implement evidence-based interventions across the cancer continuum, with a primary focus on prevention and early detection of cancer.

The Navigation Outreach Specialist provides assistance to communities and individual community members to address cancer disparities in order to overcome barriers to prevention and early detection of cancer including understanding, accessing, and completing cancer screening.

The Navigation Outreach Specialist serves as a critical link between community members, UVA Cancer Center, other community health care systems, organizations and resources.

The Navigation Outreach Specialist's general responsibilities include:

Implementing culturally relevant cancer prevention, risk reduction, and cancer screening educational programs in alignment with the strategic vision of the Community Outreach and Engagement team and UVA Cancer Center.

Collaborating with internal and external partners to build capacity to address cancer burden; including assisting with community needs assessments, attending and coordinating community meetings, and providing bidirectional communication.

Identifying barriers that may be preventing community members from receiving timely, high-quality cancer screening care and identifying potential solutions to those barriers at a community and individual level

Assisting community members in addressing specific personal barriers to prevention and cancer screening (transportation, language, finances, understanding, etc.) through appropriate resource allocation

Ensuring that referrals, procedures, communication, and follow-up for screening occur in a timely fashion through metrics, problem-solving, and documentation

Location: This position is based in Wise, Virginia at The University of Virginia's College at Wise. Moderate travel throughout Southwest Virginia and quarterly travel to Charlottesville required. Some weekend and evening hours will be required.

Minimum Requirement
Education: Bachelor's degree required. Additional experience will be required in lieu of a degree.
Experience: Two years of experience required with a Bachelor's degree. Six years of experience required with a High School degree or equivalent.
Licensure: None.

Physical Demands
This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education: Bachelor's degree required. Additional experience will be required in lieu of a degree.
Experience: Two years of experience required with a Bachelor's degree. Six years of experience required with a High School degree or equivalent.
Licensure: None.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs.