Patient Care Navigator – 6 Month Contract
Job Description:
- Serve as the primary point of contact for patients, physicians, and patient support programs
- Coordinate reimbursement, access to therapy, patient education, and ongoing care navigation
- Collaborate with patient support program coordinators and provide required patient chart and record documentation
- Provide clinical and disease-state education to patients, caregivers, physicians, and healthcare professionals
- Support funding and reimbursement approval for prescribed therapies
- Assist physicians with provincially mandated transitions from originator biologics to biosimilars
- Complete special authorization forms, enrollment forms, reimbursement documentation, and program-specific requirements
- Provide therapy guidelines, reimbursement criteria, and payer requirements to physicians
- Coordinate, document, and track patient services according to established KPIs
- Coordinate treatment appointments and medication delivery with internal teams and pharmacies
- Report adverse events according to procedures, regulations, and company policies
- Evaluate processes and recommend improvements
- Administer case management protocols, including monitoring, follow-up, adherence support, therapy disruption monitoring, and provider communication
- Cross-train and collaborate with Navigators across therapeutic areas
- Serve as a central point of contact for multidisciplinary Immunology patient-care coordination
- Provide ongoing patient support, education, consultation, therapy assessments, adherence monitoring, treatment-response monitoring, and dose optimization
- Coordinate pre-biologic screening, laboratory testing, tuberculosis screening, imaging, and immunization assessments
- Coordinate routine bloodwork, therapeutic drug monitoring, and fecal calprotectin testing
- Coordinate therapy changes, dose adjustments, treatment transitions, infusion appointments, and follow-up activities
- Participate in therapy-specific training, meetings, conferences, and educational programs
- Identify risks and participate in continuous quality improvement initiatives
- Maintain accurate documentation in the Maple database and other applicable systems
- Maintain compliance with privacy legislation, corporate policies, regulatory requirements, and standard operating procedures
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, Pharmacy, or a related healthcare discipline
- Experience in Gastroenterology and/or Immunology
- Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships with patients, physicians, healthcare providers, patient support programs, pharmacies, and internal stakeholders
- Self-directed and motivated, with the ability to work independently while contributing effectively as part of a team
- Strong problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Business acumen and the ability to thrive in a corporate healthcare environment
- Excellent clinical assessment and clinical decision-making skills
- Experience with biologic therapies and administration
- Experience with reimbursement navigation, special authorization processes, funding appeals, and patient access support
- Knowledge of public and private reimbursement systems, funding pathways, and payer requirements
- Strong analytical skills, including the interpretation of policies, regulations, and reimbursement criteria
- Experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, sales, marketing, or business administration environments is considered an asset
- Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, and Copilot
- Experience using patient support program platforms, electronic medical records, and patient management systems
- Ability to travel as required, including occasional overnight travel
- Ability to work effectively in a dynamic and rapidly changing healthcare environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills
- Maintain active professional licensure in good standing within the applicable province
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation package
- Annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered
- Ongoing professional development through training, conferences, and industry engagement
- Exposure to advanced therapies and specialty healthcare
- Development of expertise in reimbursement, patient access, and navigation services
- Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary healthcare teams and industry partners
- Opportunity to support complex patient journeys and improve access to therapy
- Growth in leadership, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and clinical decision-making skills
- Experience working in an innovative, patient-centered healthcare environment focused on improving outcomes and access to care