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Patient Care Programs Coordinator PRN - Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

United Statespart_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Aug 2026

About the role

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Organization:

VISTA Admin

Job Summary:

Coordinates and supports individual patients and families throughout point of care program(s) to ensure program goals are effectively executed with some guidance. Assures coordination of diagnostic evaluations, treatments, surgeries and follow-up appointments throughout the course of care/episode for a specific patient population.

Position Hours

Monday - Friday

Days
PRN (as needed)

Department Summary

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and a nationally recognized leader in cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, research, and survivorship care. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, the center is dedicated to reducing cancer death and suffering through pioneering research, innovative patient-centered care, evidence-based prevention and education, and meaningful community outreach. As one of only two NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in Tennessee and among a select group nationwide to earn this distinction, Vanderbilt-Ingram brings together world-renowned clinicians, researchers, and healthcare professionals in a collaborative environment focused on advancing cancer care and improving patient outcomes. Through cutting-edge research, multidisciplinary teamwork, and comprehensive support services that address the physical, emotional, psychological, and practical needs of patients and survivors, the center delivers personalized care from diagnosis through survivorship. Guided by its mission to alleviate cancer death and suffering, Vanderbilt-Ingram fosters a culture rooted in discovery and innovation, impact and translation, relationships and collaboration, and service and compassion, while striving to be the premier cancer center in the Southeast and a recognized leader on the national and global stage.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Partners with clinical care staff and providers to ensure all regulatory requirements are met to maintain patient care needs, program guidelines and/or required accreditation standards.
Acts as a point of access for patients, referring providers and the Vanderbilt community.
Develops both short and long term goals to ensure programs' success.
Provides support to patient care team to market programs and streamline business models to allow for appropriate growth.
Establishes contact with existing, newly diagnosed, potential, or referred patients by facilitating access to providers, educational materials and communication with care providers.
The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

Program Management (Intermediate): Planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific program goals and objectives.
Process Improvement (Novice): Identifies, analyzes and improves upon existing business processes for optimization and to meet standards of quality.
Financial Processes (Novice): Ability to monitor costs, expenses and revenue as well as the ability to manage those costs and expenses in relation to budgeted amounts.
Peer Leadership (Novice): The ability to show leadership and influence people of equal rank in an effort to accomplish team goals.
Quality Management (Novice): Developing a systematic process of checking to see whether a process or service is meeting specific requirements.
Networking (Novice): Build relationships through industry contacts, professional organizations and individuals.

Our professional administrative functions include critical supporting roles in information technology and informatics, finance, administration, legal and community affairs, human resources, communications and marketing, development, facilities, and many more.

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