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New York, New York, United States
Remote only
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.
The Care Navigator will help the client and family:
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:
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:
Individualized medical nutrition therapy should remain under the direction of the appropriate licensed healthcare professionals.
We are particularly interested in candidates with backgrounds such as:
Additional preference will be given to candidates with:
The strongest candidate will combine:
Oncology expertise + breast-cancer experience + care navigation + patient advocacy + exceptional organization + accountability + excellent communication + emotional intelligence + sound judgment.
The individual should be proactive, compassionate, highly organized, discreet, trustworthy, and comfortable working collaboratively with the client’s physicians and family.
Most importantly, the Care Navigator should know when to help, when to ask questions, and when an issue needs to be referred back to a physician or other licensed healthcare professional.
This role is intended to complement—not replace—licensed medical care.
The Care Navigator will not independently diagnose medical conditions, determine prognosis, prescribe treatment, select cancer therapies, recommend starting or stopping prescribed medications, override physician recommendations, or provide individualized interpretations of pathology, imaging, laboratory results, or other diagnostic findings outside the scope of their professional license.
The Care Navigator will not recommend unproven therapies as substitutes for evidence-based cancer treatment or advise the client to delay or discontinue conventional medical care.
When medical judgment is required, the Care Navigator should help identify the issue, formulate the appropriate questions, and obtain guidance from the relevant licensed healthcare provider.
This is intended to be a high-touch, part-time engagement rather than a traditional fixed-hour administrative position.
The engagement may include regular scheduled sessions, preparation before important medical appointments, follow-up after specialist consultations, care-plan organization, tracking outstanding actions and decisions, and reasonable communication between sessions when significant care-navigation needs arise.
Occasional participation in or support surrounding important medical appointments may also be appropriate when requested and authorized.
Because the role may involve access to sensitive personal and medical information, the Care Navigator must demonstrate exceptional discretion and maintain confidentiality in accordance with applicable professional, legal, and contractual obligations.
Specific scheduling, availability, communication expectations, compensation, and scope of engagement will be discussed during the interview process.
