Private Oncology Care Navigator

Role Type: Private Oncology Care Navigation & Patient Support Location: Primarily Remote / Virtual; occasional in-person support may be considered

Position Overview

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 experience—preferably supporting individuals with breast cancer—and 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

• 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.
• 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
• Adequate calories and protein
• Healthy weight maintenance or weight restoration
• Muscle preservation
• Hydration
• Managing barriers to eating
• Appropriate physical activity
• Sleep, recovery, and stress management

Qualifications & Ideal Background

• Oncology Registered Nurse (RN)
• Oncology Nurse Navigator
• Breast Cancer Nurse Navigator
• Oncology Nurse Practitioner
• Certified oncology nurse
• Oncology Patient/Care Navigator
• Oncology Social Worker with substantial care-navigation experience
• Other licensed or credentialed healthcare professionals with significant oncology experience
• Several years of direct oncology experience
• Significant breast-cancer experience
• Experience navigating multidisciplinary cancer care
• Experience with medically complex patients
• Familiarity with cardio-oncology
• Patient-advocacy experience
• Health-coaching or behavior-change training
• Cancer-nutrition knowledge

Core Competencies

Scope of Practice

Availability, Confidentiality & Working Relationship