Advanced Therapies Navigator

About Shields Advanced Therapies

Shields Advanced Therapies partners with health systems to accelerate advanced therapy access and operations, ensuring lifechanging breakthroughs reach more patients. Our management services and technology solutions serve as a horizontal support hub to empower health system-led, world-class advanced therapy care across 50+ disease states. Launched in September 2024, Shields Advanced Therapies is anchored by partnerships with four of the Top 20 Academic Medical Centers in the United States. Additionally, Shields' track record partnering with over 1,000 hospitals across 43 states in prior ventures provides a national channel for expansion.

Role Overview

The Advanced Therapies Navigator provides comprehensive coordination of all services and systems to provide an organized and efficient multi-disciplinary team approach for the care of patients receiving advanced therapies at a Boston-based Health System Partner. The role will help to shape the development and evolution of advanced therapies at our Boston-based Health System Partner, serving to enhance its overall effectiveness, productivity, and quality. This position serves as the glue for facilitating an organized and comprehensive approach to the management of patients undergoing advanced therapies across settings of care and the trajectory of illness - delivering the best possible clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, and provider satisfaction in the process. The role reports to the Advanced Therapies Clinical Operations Manager.

Core Responsibilities

Patient & Therapy Coordination / Facilitation

Coordinate the entry and integration of prospective patients into and through the process ensuring timely evaluations and collaboration among the different disciplines involved, including but not limited to the following duties :

Execute bespoke pathways tailored to each product covered by the advanced therapy program across Partner's service lines and therapeutic programs

• Develop timeline for therapy based on patient status, product availability, and program schedule
• Ensure evaluations including testing are completed in accordance with program SOPs and in the appropriate timeframe to meet timeline
• Coordinate with manufacturer to ensure manufacturing slot is secured and facilitated and financial assistance is facilitated and secured (if appropriate)
• Coordinate with insurer, pharmacy vendors and / or Partner's pharmacy to ensure mobilization medications are available within desired timeframe
• Communicate with patients and caregivers across care journey, including appointments, testing and procedures, consents, and documentation
• Collaborate with the inpatient and outpatient medical care teams and other services (apheresis, radiology, radiation therapy, cell therapy laboratory, OR, etc.) to coordinate and schedule mobilization, collection, admission and infusion
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders if / when there is overlap with research (expanded access protocol, off-label use, etc.)
• Assess patient / family physiologic, psychosocial and financial needs. Based upon assessment, make recommendations to social work, financial planning, etc.
• Coordinate transportation, housing, meals, and other patient support programs
• Educate patients and families to assist understanding of the disease, processes and procedures related to mobilization, collection and infusion of cellular therapy products
• Collaborate with program's Financial Coordinators and hospital finance to ensure all required approvals are obtained for procedures as appropriate
• Coordinate all aspects of patient's care , from enrollment to transition of care, and through 15 year follow up, including facilitating data collection requirements
• Transition patient case to appropriate team within or outside of the Health System
• Accountable to ensure that all patients who are being evaluated receive care in an organized, consistent, efficient, and high-quality manner

Program Development

Developing and operationalizing workflows for internal and external patient identification, enrollment, care coordination, and support across all products, disease programs, and sites of care

Location

On-site, Boston-based Health System Partner (Boston, MA)

Experience

Registered Nurse - MA

Compensation

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