Oncology Quality & Care Pathways Navigator (44003

Job Details

Job Location:

9900 N. Central Expressway Suite 120, Dallas, TX 75231 - Dallas, TX 75231

Position Type:
Full Time

Job Category:
Health Care

Oncology Quality & Care Pathways Navigator

Department:
Compliance

Reports To:

Director of Clinical Programs

FLSA Status:
Exempt

The Oncology Quality & Care Pathways Navigator serves as the clinical quality resource for the Oncology Service Line. This position partners with physicians, advanced practice providers, nursing, pharmacy, infusion services, and ancillary departments to promote evidence-based, high-quality cancer care across the continuum of treatment.

The incumbent performs comprehensive chart reviews, monitors adherence to National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines and organizational treatment pathways, identifies gaps in care, evaluates medications and supportive therapies, validates documentation, and collaborates directly with providers to improve patient outcomes. The role supports quality improvement initiatives, accreditation readiness, and clinical standardization while ensuring timely, coordinated, patient-centered care.

To ensure oncology patients receive evidence-based, timely, and coordinated care by monitoring compliance with established care pathways, identifying opportunities for clinical improvement, and partnering with providers to improve quality, safety, and outcomes.

This position will become fully remote after 6-8 weeks of training in-office.

• Review newly diagnosed oncology patients to verify appropriate staging, diagnostic testing, biomarker evaluation, and treatment planning.
• Monitor adherence to NCCN Guidelines, evidence-based pathways, and organizational standards.
• Identify clinical care gaps and collaborate with physicians regarding appropriate follow-up and documentation.

• Audit medical records throughout the patient's continuum of care.
• Validate treatment sequencing, laboratory monitoring, imaging, referrals, and follow-up.
• Ensure documentation accurately reflects diagnoses, clinical decision-making, and treatment response.

• Review chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy, endocrine therapy, and supportive care medications.
• Evaluate medication reconciliation and supportive care interventions.
• Collaborate with providers and pharmacy to resolve medication-related concerns.

• Monitor patients for overdue visits, imaging, laboratory testing, treatment, or surveillance.
• Coordinate care among physicians, APPs, infusion services, nursing, pharmacy and outside providers.
• Assist the transitions of care and removal of barriers that delay treatment.

• Serve as a clinical resource to physicians and APPs.
• Participate in multidisciplinary conferences to engage with patients ( Calories For Ann Little!!! ??)
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• Track oncology quality indicators and pathway compliance.
• Support QOPI, Commission on Cancer, or other accreditation initiatives, as applicable.
• Develop reports, identify trends, and recommend workflow improvements.

• Independently identify clinical care gaps and documentation deficiencies.
• Recommend evidence-based interventions and follow-up based on established oncology pathways.
• Escalate complex clinical issues to the Director of Clinical Programs or treating physician.
• Prioritize daily work activities to meet quality and patient care objectives.

• Pathway compliance rates
• Timeliness of chart reviews Tester
• Identification and resolution of care gaps
• Documentation accuracy
• Reduction in treatment delays
• Patient follow-up compliance
• Physician satisfaction
• Quality metric performance
• Accreditation readiness
• Patient outcome improvement initiatives

Work is primarily performed in an office and clinical environment. Requires prolonged sitting, standing, walking between clinical areas, computer use, and the ability to…