Specialty Nurse Navigator – Hematology/Oncology – San Diego

This is a Full Time 10-hour Day shift position located in Hillcrest, San Diego.

Elevate your career with Scripps Health, where Compassion Meets Excellence. 

Invest, Empower & Belong. At Scripps Health, your potential is limitless. We’re more than a healthcare provider, at Scripps you will join a community where your views, beliefs and values are celebrated. Grow through industry-leading development programs and empower yourself to deliver innovative care. Be a part of an extraordinary team, impacting health in beautiful San Diego.

Why join Scripps Health?

AWARD-WINNING WORKPLACE:

  At Scripps Health, your ambition is empowered, and your abilities are appreciated:

• Nearly a quarter of our employees have been with Scripps Health for over 10 years.
• Scripps is a Great Place to Work Certified company for 2025.
• Scripps Health has been consistently ranked as a top employer for women, millennials, diversity, and as an overall workplace by various national publications.
• Beckers Healthcare ranked Scripps Health on its 2024 list of 150 top places to work in health care.
• We have transitional and professional development programs to create a learning environment that enables you to thrive in your specific field as well as in your overall career.

Our specialties have been nationally recognized for quality in areas such as cardiovascular care, oncology, orthopedics, geriatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and gastroenterology.

We invite you to join our Hematology/Oncology team as a Specialty Nurse Navigator.

As a Specialty Nurse Navigator Hematology/Oncology you will have the unique opportunity to partner with our patients receiving cancer care.  We’re able to navigate them through their journey while partnering with other teams, to ensure comprehensive care. 

Your responsibilities will include:  

·                  Primary contact/advocate for patients in a large multidisciplinary hematology oncology practice.

·                  Collaborate with care team to develop and facilitate individualized plan of care.

·                  Educate patient and caregivers about disease, treatment modalities, side effect management and self-care measures.

·                  Coordinate all aspects of care including diagnostics, procedures, referrals, treatments.

·                  Triage all communications including patient calls and emails, other departments, insurances, genomic testing organizations.

·                  Formed strong relationships with all colleagues including physicians, nurses, clerical staff, and management across multiple departments and locations.

·                  Navigating patients through the continuum of care acting as a liaison and resource between the physician, other departments, and the patient.

·                  Establish specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time specific nursing goals to guide the care planning process and promote self-reliance.

·                  Provide in person, clinic visits as needed at the initiation of care and throughout transitions of care throughout all our hematology/oncology clinic sites, as needed.

·                  Formulating custom care plans from assessment and clinical information demonstrating the application of clinical guidelines including standards of care.

·                  Providing disease and treatment specific education tailored to meet patient’s individual goals of care.

·                  Onsite rounding throughout treatment plan implementation as needed to provide needed in person patient evaluation.

·                  Provide direct, hands-on nursing care, as needed. 

·                  Assist patients in establishing, modifying, or reinforcing a social support network, thereby promoting self-reliance. Assisting patients with social services needs by identifying resources in the community and referring to these programs.

·                  Collaboration with system wide authorizations team, scheduling in other departments, as needed to ensure patient receives timely and comprehensive care.