Patient Navigator- Non Clinical

at  RWJBarnabas Health

Req #: 0000174360
Category: Clerical / Administrative Support
Status: Full-Time
Shift: Day
Facility: Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Department: Gilead Focus Grant

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• Bachelor s degree preferred or equivalent, training in a related social service or human service field
• Experience working in a healthcare with the community

SCHEDULING REQUIREMENTS:

• Day shift with the need to occasional flexibility to accommodate community events, patient schedule preference

• Identifying and engaging appropriate patients
• Linking& Re-Linking new and previously diagnosed patients to medical care
• Providing patient education regarding diagnosis and treatment
• Facilitating care coordination including arranging transportation, providing support for insurance, accompanying patients to appointments and providing reminder phone calls, texts, emails
• Initiate appropriate supportive referrals such as substance abuse treatment, mental health, PrEP
• Serving as primary liaison between the screening, diagnostic and treatment teams throughout the continuum of testing to initial treatment
• Documenting services delivered to patients in the electronic health record and maintaining accurate data for required reporting, establishing best practice and dissemination of project outcomes
• Contributing to institutional policy change to support routine screening and linkage to care
• Candidate must have the ability to demonstrate the delivery of culturally sensitive services, be able to function effectively within a team-based, inter-professional approach and possess a strong knowledge of local resources to facilitate client referrals to