Carle Health

RN Navigator – Oncology

Carle Health
Posted 10/19/2026full-timePeoria • Illinois • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $35 - $57 per hourWebsite
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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in oncology navigation, care coordination, and patient assessment while effectively advocating for patients and facilitating communication among multidisciplinary healthcare teams. Maintains up-to-date knowledge of oncology care continuum, clinical guidelines, and quality improvement initiatives.

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Licensed Registered Nurse (RN)Oncology NavigationPatient TriageCare CoordinationBasic Life Support (BLS)

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Provide oncology patients, caregivers, families, providers, and communities with education, support, resources, referrals, and guidance throughout the cancer care continuum
  • Serve as primary patient contact, advocate, and liaison among patients, families, caregivers, and healthcare teams
  • Assess patient understanding, needs, barriers to care, treatment goals, psychosocial concerns, and access issues
  • Coordinate and schedule diagnostic, treatment, survivorship, hospice, palliative, and other healthcare services
  • Monitor patients from screening through treatment and survivorship, including diagnosis, high-stress points, surgery, therapy initiation, and other designated touchpoints
  • Provide telephone triage for symptom management, emotional support, education, and resource referral
  • Facilitate referrals to surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, case managers, social workers, dietitians, financial assistance, genetic counselors, rehabilitation, home care, hospice, and other services
  • Coordinate communication with providers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure timely care, test results, follow-up, and treatment-plan adherence
  • Participate in tumor boards, tumor conferences, interdisciplinary meetings, cancer committee activities, support groups, screenings, health fairs, and community education
  • Document patient encounters, diagnostic testing, treatments, referrals, interactions, and non-compliance in tracking systems and databases
  • Prepare reports, track metrics and outcomes, maintain disease-site dashboards, and report program outcomes to stakeholders
  • Identify and implement quality and process improvement initiatives and develop action plans
  • Maintain oncology knowledge through continuing education, evidence-based practice, research, presentations, publications, and professional organizations

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Licensed Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days - American Heart Association (AHA)
  • College Diploma: Nursing
  • Knowledge and skills in patient triage, nursing theory and practice, problem-solving, advocacy, leadership, customer service, cultural sensitivity/language skills, and patient education
  • Ability to perform oncology navigation, care coordination, patient assessment, referrals, documentation, and telephone triage
  • Ability to work with diverse and complex patients, families, and internal and external healthcare providers
  • Knowledge of oncology care continuum, clinical guidelines, clinical trials, molecular testing, genetic counseling, insurance, survivorship, palliative care, and hospice
  • Ability to participate in tumor boards, interdisciplinary meetings, cancer committee, quality improvement, and reporting activities

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Equal Opportunity Employer
  • Potential for growth and life-long careers

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Hard Skills
Patient AssessmentDocumentationTelephone TriageAdvocacyProblem-SolvingQuality ImprovementClinical GuidelinesMolecular TestingGenetic CounselingSurvivorship Care
Soft Skills
Customer ServiceCultural SensitivityLeadershipEmotional SupportCommunication
Tools & Technologies
Tracking SystemsDatabasesDisease-Site Dashboards
Certifications & Qualifications
Licensed Registered Nurse (RN)Basic Life Support (BLS)
Industry Keywords
Oncology Care ContinuumPalliative CareHospiceClinical TrialsInterdisciplinary Meetings