Nurse Navigator 40hr

apartment Cary Medical Center location_onCaribou, ME 04736, US

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40hr

Nurse Navigator

The Nurse Navigator serves as a dedicated point of contact for referring medical providers, patients, and caregivers, offering guidance and resources to help navigate clinical and supportive care services across the health care continuum. This role may include coordinating patient appointments and providing education to patients undergoing cancer treatment.

At Cary Medical Center, we take pride in our workplace culture — our employees have recognized us as one of Maine’s Best Places to Work in 2025 for the fifth consecutive year. Here, you’ll join a collaborative and supportive team where your contributions truly make a difference.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Assist patients in understanding their diagnosis, treatment options and available resources.
Maintain a working knowledge of cancer disease processes, treatments, side effects and their management, prognoses, and complications.
Take responsibility for assuring that safe patient care is maintained including following established protocols and use of tools provided by the organization to ensure patient safety.
Serve as an essential link between patients and all other care providers.
Facilitate appointments for consults and support services within established service standards (labs, diagnostic testing, referrals, etc.).
Support multidisciplinary involvement in the plan of care (Oncology Rehab, Dietitian, specialty medical providers and primary care providers).
Educate patients and their family, providing educational tools (JCCC education binder).
Maintain the JCCC education binder materials.
Follow cancer patients through the care continuum, including detection, diagnosis, treatment and survivorship.
Create treatment plans for each patient receiving treatment, providing a copy to the patient and their primary care provider.
Create treatment summary post patient treatment, providing to patient and their primary care provider.
Collect data, track outcomes and support the navigation program progress.
Document patient interactions in a complete and useful manner.
Coordinate outreach efforts to establish and maintain positive working relationships with key customers, including medical providers, office staff, diagnostic staff, nursing, social services, community resource agencies, the patient and the caregivers
Performs other duties as assigned.
Complies with local, state, and federal laws and regulations.

Requirements

License Requirements:

Maintains current Registered Nurse licensure for the State of Maine.

Educational, Skills, Experience Requirements:

Maintains current BLS certification.
Maintains or obtains certification in navigation, either generally or in an oncology specialty.

Availability Requirements

Core hours are generally 0800-1630, Monday – Friday.
Depending on scheduling and/or staffing needs, may need to work beyond the core hours (prior to 0800, beyond 1630).
Depending on scheduling and/or staffing needs, may need to work nights, weekends and holidays.

Contact:

To view the full job description or request additional information, please contact Kelly at 207-498-1311 or email klandeen@carymed.org.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, vision, retirement, and paid time off. To view the complete benefits package, click here: Cary Medical Center Benefit Information .

Cary Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer & Provider

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