Job Responsibilities:
Cultivate relationships with schools, diverse community-based organizations (CBOs), faith-based institutions, and community coalitions by attending community events and meetings to increase cancer awareness, with a focus on Brooklyn.
Support the development of culturally tailored and linguistically appropriate and accessible health education materials and survey instruments.
Serve as a cancer health education specialist for multiple cancers (including breast, cervical, lung, colorectal, prostate, pancreatic and liver cancers), cancer prevention (including physical activity, nutrition, and vaccination) and Mental Health First Aid.
Conduct participant recruitment, consent, survey administration, and data collection into SOCB initiatives and participate in needs assessment and evaluation activities.
Guide patients through the health care system from screening, through diagnosis into treatment and survivorship.
Coordinate conference and workshop preparation and other dissemination-related activities.
Serve as a patient advocate by developing relationships with personnel in departments involved in the care of cancer patients (i.e. physicians, nurses, radiology staff, and social services staff).
Facilitate patient interaction and communication with health care staff and providers and streamline activities related to patient services and referrals.
Identify environmental barriers to care and provide referrals for social and supportive services (e.g. transportation, food access, health insurance, housing).
Willingness to conduct SOCB participant engagement, navigation and evaluation activities at times convenient to participants availability (including evenings and, at times, weekends).
Provide assistance to ensure project goals and objectives are met and inform the development and collection of appropriate process and impact measures.
Track interventions and outcomes including entering data into MS Excel, REDCap, and Epic.
Assist with administrative duties relevant to SOCB outreach, engagement, and research efforts.
Report directly to the SOCB Program Manager on activities related to the community needs assessment and planning, and to the PCC Administrative Director on activities related to patient navigation.
Support a culturally and linguistically tailored melanoma equity outreach education and navigation program in the Russian speaking community in Brooklyn. This will include hosting workshops in community spaces and clinical navigation to screening services as needed.
Other duties as assigned.