Health Educator II; Clinical Trials

Overview

RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE VISION, MISSION, AND CORE VALUES:

Through our science, our evidence-based actions, our openness, and our respect for those we serve, we will advance cancer-focused research worldwide and reduce the burden of cancer in our catchment area. By engaging with and empowering our exceptionally diverse populations, and addressing their questions and fears, we will engender hope for cancer patients and their families and play a critical role in strengthening the fabric of our communities by gaining and protecting their trust and providing access to the outstanding oncology care each person deserves.

Our mission is to accelerate scientific discovery focused on understanding cancer, innovating cancer treatment, and improving cancer prevention; to provide outstanding, novel, and compassionate patient care; to provide evidence-based and culturally informed education to physicians, nurses, researchers, staff, and the community; and to achieve cancer health equity in our state through outreach to and engagement of our extraordinarily diverse communities.

• Curiosity and Discovery: encouraging an environment of continuous inquiry, creativity, and innovation to generate new knowledge
• Integrity: earning the trust of those we serve and each other through honesty, transparency, accountability, and continuous reflection
• Collaboration:
  
  approaching all opportunities with an understanding that together we are better and can achieve more; promoting and maintaining an environment of teamwork and shared knowledge
• Respect and Caring: consistently demonstrating caring, compassion, and respect through our words and actions
• Perseverance: maintaining an unwavering commitment to our mission; embracing change, overcoming obstacles, and creating and recreating the path to achieve our goals

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Health Educator II (Clinical Trials) within Cancer Health Equity & Engagement at the Rutgers Cancer Institute.

The Health Educator II will work under the direction of the Program Director of Outreach and Engagement. This position promotes cancer health equity research integration at the Rutgers Cancer Institute as part of the Cancer Health Equity Center of Excellence (CHECoE). The Health Educator II will also work with community outreach and engagement team members, community clinical practice teams, community organizations, and Rutgers Cancer Institute research program leaders and liaisons to facilitate the achievement of our goals of increasing participation of underserved and underrepresented communities in cancer clinical trials.

• Identifies and participates in evidence-based cancer-related knowledge brokering through the creation of dissemination pathways within communities and networks, specifically on research and cancer clinical trials.
• Provides guidance to enhance cancer clinical trials participation through education and liaison actions within the RWJBH Health System.
• Educates communities and providers in better understanding research and clinical trials, and available materials and resources by working closely with the CHECoE Community Education and Engagement team and Community Navigation team.
• Responds to inquiries from community clinical practice teams and community organizations about research and clinical trials services and refers to the appropriate resource.
• Assists in identifying, developing, and implementing initiatives that ensure Rutgers Cancer Institute research is addressing catchment area priorities and health equity and is responsive to community-identified needs.
• Works in collaboration with the Community Outreach and Education team, Community Scientists, and Community Cancer Action Board (CCAB) members, and Impact Councils to develop educational and outreach materials on clinical trials, and develop and coordinate relevant in-reach and outreach efforts and activities (e.g., community scientist program opportunities and matching with researchers).
• Attends and participates in key meetings and committees at Rutgers Cancer Institute for research integration efforts (e.g., Catchment Area & COE Research Programs Integration Meeting, Disease Specific Working Groups (DSGs), Commission on Cancer Survivorship Committee, Patient Education Committee) and other meetings (e.g., RWJBH/Rutgers Cancer Institute systemwide inter-professional oncology operations collaborative).
• Assists in promoting and recommending bidirectional, efficacious community engagement strategies in cancer research activities, ensuring research can be optimally translated to communities.
• Interfaces with the Rutgers Cancer Institute's Office of Human Research Services (OHRS) on clinical trials enrollment efforts.
• Assists with the preparation of activity reports and materials for senior leadership.
• Understands and adheres to Rutgers' compliance standards as they appear in RBHS's Corporate Compliance, Policy, Code of Conduct, and Conflict of Interest…