Breast Nurse Navigator

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Nurse Navigator, Breast Cancer - Lahey Clinic Location Burlington, MA, with occasional travel to Peabody, MA Schedule Monday through Thursday, 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM, with an earlier start on Friday

The Breast Nurse Navigator serves as the primary clinical resource, educator, and advocate for patients diagnosed with breast cancer, guiding them through all phases of care from diagnosis through treatment and survivorship. Working collaboratively with breast surgeons, referring providers, and multidisciplinary care teams, the Nurse Navigator coordinates care across the continuum, facilitates timely access to services, and helps patients navigate complex treatment pathways.

This role establishes relationships with newly diagnosed patients and their families, identifies and addresses barriers to care, coordinates appointments and follow-up services, reviews clinical information to support care planning, participates in multidisciplinary breast tumor conferences, and serves as a key liaison between patients, providers, and support services. The Nurse Navigator also supports quality and outcomes initiatives, clinical pathway development, survivorship planning, and adherence to accreditation standards within Lahey's nationally accredited breast program.

Make a meaningful impact as a trusted guide and advocate for patients throughout their breast cancer journey. Work within Lahey's Comprehensive Breast Health Center, one of the few programs in Massachusetts accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC). Collaborate with a highly skilled multidisciplinary team dedicated to delivering exceptional, patient-centered cancer care. Play a key role in improving access, coordination, outcomes, and the overall patient experience across the continuum of care.

Enjoy a primarily Burlington-based role with occasional opportunities to support patients and colleagues in Peabody.

• I. Clinical Judgment and Decision Making:
  Ways in which nurses come to understand the problems, issues or concerns of patients/families, to attend to relevant/critical information, and to respond in concerned and involved ways. The Nurse Navigator is expected to and is accountable for providing safe patient care by demonstrating organizational skills that maintain and coordinate safe delivery of quality care for assigned patients/families. Develops a culturally competent plan of care that identifies patient problems, expected outcomes, and addresses preventative measures.
  
  Performs systematic patient and family assessment relevant to practice settings. Delivers care that is specific to the age of the patient. Evaluates effectiveness of care and adapts plan based on patient/family response.
• II. Professional Relationship:
  The professional relationship is based upon Lahey Clinic’s guiding principles and positive effective communication. This relationship extends beyond formal assessment to integrate the particular patient’s response and his/her religious/spiritual, ethnic and cultural beliefs into the plan of care. Establishes professional relationship with nurses, physicians and other colleagues and patients and families. The relationship includes the patient and family as a partner in care and is based upon Swanson’s Theory of Caring.
  
  Educates the patient and family about the patient’s illness and treatment including preventative measures appropriate to the patient. Supports Lahey Clinics commitment to community based activities both within the Lahey community and beyond.
• III. Clinical Leadership:
  The Nurse Navigator supports the development of others and creates a practice climate of responsiveness and learning based on Benner’s Novice to Expert skills acquisition model. This supports the retention and recruitment of clinically competent nurses. The ability to lead and influence the reasoning of colleagues in the patient’s best interest depends on skillful comportment, authoritative clinical knowledge and…