Nurse Navigator

UT Health San Antonio • San Antonio, TX

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About The Position

The Mays Cancer Center Nurse Navigator assesses and manages barriers to care to improve the timeliness, quality, and clinical outcomes of care, and the patient experience. Promotes continuity, multi-disciplinary cancer care and thereby creates a cost-effective value-based environment through integrating functions of case management, utilization review, clinical competence, and discharge planning. Responsible for providing individualized assistance to patients, families, and caregivers, as well as internal and external staff and providers.

Requirements

• Assesses and manages barriers to care
• Improves timeliness, quality, and clinical outcomes of care
• Enhances patient experience
• Promotes continuity of care
• Facilitates multi-disciplinary cancer care
• Integrates functions of case management
• Integrates functions of utilization review
• Integrates functions of clinical competence
• Integrates functions of discharge planning
• Provides individualized assistance to patients, families, and caregivers
• Provides individualized assistance to internal and external staff and providers

Responsibilities

• Assesses and manages barriers to care to improve the timeliness, quality, and clinical outcomes of care, and the patient experience.
• Promotes continuity, multi-disciplinary cancer care and thereby creates a cost-effective value-based environment through integrating functions of case management, utilization review, clinical competence, and discharge planning.
• Provides individualized assistance to patients, families, and caregivers, as well as internal and external staff and providers.

Benefits

• Medical insurance (UT SELECT Medical, free for employees)
• Family members can be added to the plan through payroll deduction
• Discounted copays and coinsurance when using UT Health Physicians
• Group term life insurance ($50,000)
• Basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance ($50,000)
• Options to purchase additional employee and dependent coverage
• Dental insurance (three plan options: two PPOs, one HMO)
• Vision Care benefits (two plan options: standard or enhanced)
• Disability Insurance
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) for dependent day care or out-of-pocket health care expenses
• Retirement plan options: Teacher Retirement System (TRS) or Optional Retirement Plan (ORP)
• Voluntary retirement programs with five quality retirement plan providers
• Generous leave program: Front-loaded Paid Time Off (128 to 208 hours)
• Extended Illness Bank (8 hours accrued per month)
• Paid Family Leave (up to 240 hours)
• 12 set paid holidays each year
• Range of discounts on services, tickets, and gym membership

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed