Care Coordinator for Cancer Prevention

Sea Mar Community Health Centers•Seattle, WA

9d•$22•Onsite

About The Position

Sea Mar Community Health Centers is seeking a temporary Care Coordinator for Cancer Prevention to increase preventative health screening rates within its medical clinics. This role supports clinicians by guiding patients through abnormal breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening results, facilitating access to recommended follow-up care, including imaging, tests, and appointments at tertiary care centers. The Care Coordinator will use supportive communication to motivate patients, overcome obstacles in follow-up testing, and ensure access to specialty care. This position requires ongoing communication with patients, clinical staff, and community partners to ensure timely and appropriate patient care.

Requirements

Must be able to work both independently with minimal supervision and as a collaborative team in a dynamic work environment.
Must be able to use good judgment, meet deadlines and prioritize workloads.
Must be able to maintain professionalism and appropriate boundaries in all interactions.
Must be detail and process-oriented with experience using electronic recording data system (i.e. Epic) and various Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Outlook and Internet applications.
Ability to think strategically to work though barriers with patients around medical access and procedures.
Strong communication skills and ability to connect with patients by phone.
Strong organizational and time management skills.
High school diploma or equivalent required.
Minimum of one year of experience in nursing, medical assistant or related clinical care delivery, or community health outreach and education.
Pre-hire and annual employee health screening required.
Initial TB test at hire and annual retest.
Must receive a satisfactory background check from the Washington State Patrol and maintain a valid Washington Driver’s license and automobile liability insurance coverage.
Annual influenza vaccine required. Only exception is for employees with a medical or religious exemption approved by Administration. Employees with an approved medical or religious exemption must wear a mask at all times during the flu season.

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of preventative cancer screening and its importance.
Knowledge of patient care processes, clinical procedures, and medical terminology, particularly regarding breast, cervical and colorectal health.
Ability to work with electronic health records, create messages, look at labs, review patient encounters and, as appropriate, update the medical record with historical data.
Bilingual in English/Spanish Preferred

Responsibilities

Review electronic health record charts and patient lists to identify patients in need of important health screenings and services.
Audit chart records in Epic & Care Everywhere for cancer screening and follow up reports.
Navigate patients with referrals related to breast, cervical and colorectal abnormalities.
Schedule appointments/ referrals with appropriate provider(s) for cervical, breast and colon cancer screening diagnosis, and treatment.
Request medical records from outside care providers and upload to ensure accurate and complete medical record.
Navigate patients with outside referrals to specialty care.
Contact patients over the phone who are due for cancer screening tests and prepare mail outs with appropriate materials and patient identifier information.
Consider and strategically address the “social determinants of health” which may be delay or otherwise interfere with timely and appropriate follow-up services. This includes contacting and reminding patients to schedule appointments, anticipatory guidance about expected tests and procedures, and navigate on how to arrive at scheduled appointments on time and prepared.
Collaborate with Sea Mar medical clinical staff, research teams, and other stakeholders in the planning and implementation of educational, training and quality improvement efforts for reproductive cancers.
Work with Sea Mar staff to rollout additional preventive health screening and recall efforts to patients.
Attend trainings and learning opportunities that expand content knowledge and best practices.
Support quality improvement efforts regarding cancer screening, tracking and follow-up.
Track appropriate patient-level quality outcomes for monitoring and evaluation efforts.
Assist with Quality Improvement projects.