Private Oncology Care Navigator

Private Oncology Care Navigation & Patient Support

We are seeking an experienced Private Oncology Care Navigator to provide highly personalized support to an individual navigating a breast cancer diagnosis, treatment planning, and related health considerations.

The ideal candidate will have substantial hands-on oncology experiencepreferably supporting individuals with breast cancerand combine strong clinical literacy with exceptional care navigation, organization, patient advocacy, communication, and interpersonal skills.

The Care Navigator will serve as a knowledgeable and highly organized partner who helps the client navigate the healthcare system, prepare for medical appointments, organize and understand information from physicians, coordinate across multiple specialists, track recommendations and follow-up items, and implement physician-approved health and wellness priorities.

This is not a physician role. The Care Navigator will complement, not replace, the client's medical team and will maintain clear professional boundaries around diagnosis, treatment recommendations, and other medical decisions.

Key Responsibilities

The Care Navigator will help the client and family:

• Navigate the cancer-care journey, including diagnostic testing, specialist consultations, treatment planning, surgery, systemic therapies, radiation, recovery, follow-up, and survivorship as applicable.
• Prepare for medical appointments by organizing relevant information and developing concise, prioritized questions for oncologists, surgeons, cardiologists, and other specialists.
• Follow up after appointments by organizing physician recommendations, identifying unresolved questions, and translating agreed-upon plans into clear next steps.
• Coordinate information across providers, including oncology, breast surgery, cardiology/cardio-oncology, primary care, nutrition, and other specialists, with appropriate client authorization.
• Maintain an organized care plan tracking appointments, testing, physician recommendations, medications, pending decisions, questions, and follow-up actions.
• Support informed decision-making by helping the client understand general medical terminology and treatment pathways and identify questions that should be addressed by the appropriate physician.
• Facilitate second opinions and additional specialist consultations when requested, including helping organize the records and questions needed for those consultations.
• Provide patient advocacy, helping ensure that the client's priorities, concerns, and questions are effectively communicated to the healthcare team.
• Support execution and accountability around physician-approved priorities involving nutrition, hydration, medication adherence, sleep, appropriate movement, recovery, stress management, and other health behaviors.
• Provide calm, compassionate support throughout the care journey while recognizing when medical, nutritional, or psychological issues should be referred to the appropriate licensed professional.

Preferred Oncology Experience

Strong preference will be given to candidates with substantial direct experience supporting individuals with breast cancer.

Candidates should be familiar with breast-cancer care and terminology, including:

• Pathology, tumor grade, and staging ER, PR, and HER2 status
• Breast imaging and lymph-node evaluation
• Lumpectomy, mastectomy, and sentinel lymph-node procedures
• Radiation therapy
• Chemotherapy and other systemic therapies
• Endocrine therapy
• Treatment sequencing
• Second opinions and multidisciplinary cancer care
• Recovery, surveillance, and survivorship

Experience with invasive lobular carcinoma is a plus.

The successful candidate should be capable of explaining general concepts in understandable language while appropriately referring individualized interpretation, prognosis, and treatment decisions to the client's physicians.

Complex Care, Nutrition & Overall Health

Experience supporting medically complex oncology patients is strongly preferred. Familiarity with cardio-oncology and coordinating cancer care with cardiologists and other specialists would be particularly valuable.

The Care Navigator should also understand the importance of maintaining adequate nutrition, healthy weight, physical strength, and muscle mass during cancer treatment.

The role may include helping the client implement recommendations established by physicians and/or a registered dietitian related to:

• Adequate calories and protein
• Healthy weight maintenance or weight restoration
• Muscle preservation
• Hydration
• Managing barriers to eating
• Appropriate ph