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Get Access To All JobsWork Arrangement: Regular
Requisition Number: 269120
Location: Raleigh, NC, US, 27710
Personnel Area: DUKE RALEIGH CAMPUS
Date: Apr 27, 2026
At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together.
About Duke Raleigh Hospital, A Campus of Duke University Hospital
Pursue your passion for caring with the Duke Raleigh Campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. With 204-beds, it is the third largest of the four Duke Health hospitals and offers a comprehensive array of services, including cancer, cardiovascular, neuroscience, advanced gastrointestinal, and wound healing care.
Nurse Navigator (Oncology Experienced RN)
Cary Cancer Center
Job Summary:
The Nurse Navigator (NN) is a professional RN with service line specific clinical knowledge who offers individualized assistance across the care continuum to patients, families, and caregivers to expedite and coordinate care, and address health system barriers. The NN assumes responsibility for the coordination of patient care through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaboration to achieve optimal patient outcomes with a focus on high-risk patients or those with complex care needs (including multidisciplinary care). The NN has a particular focus on improving transitions in care and adherence to care. Additionally, the NN functions as a clinical advocate and educator for patients. The NN assists to build and maintain community relationships to provide expedient and reliable access to quality care. The NN identifies and alleviates stressors during transitions and barriers to care with the aim to deliver a seamless model of care that benefits patients, family members, providers, and the healthcare team.
Work Performed
- Assess and facilitate coordination of multidisciplinary care across the care continuum.
- Provide communication, advocacy, and education in a culturally competent manner.
- Ability to clinically triage new patient referrals efficiently, to ensure timely access to care.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary care team and expedite sequence of patient's workup, active treatment, survivorship, and end of life care.
- Provide communication and reinforcement of clinical information and serve as a conduit between patient and providers/clinicians to address needs of patients.
- Targeted symptom assessment and management for identified patient population.
- Assess health literacy and educational needs of patient.
- Provide clinical education about diagnosis, treatment, side effects, and post-treatment care.
- Assess and document patient's needs, goals, and preferences and work to ensure such are integrated into treatment and care delivery.
- Bridge gaps in care, and assess/troubleshoot care transitions and barriers to care.
- Facilitate advanced care planning and transition of active treatment to palliative or end-of-life care.
- Document all patient encounters in EPIC.
- Enhance access to therapeutic clinical trials and optimize communication with patients, families and investigators regarding therapeutic clinical trials, including patient-specific education about clinical trials.
- Encourage and empower patients to actively participate in decision-making about their treatment and care. Possess leadership skills including staff education, preceptorship, patient education, and participate in process improvement initiatives.
- Practice according to professional and legal standards.
- Maintain navigation services documentation according to program standards.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Excellent written, oral, and conversational communication skills to effectively work with diverse groups.
- Ability to analyze, evaluate multiple solutions and solve complex problems using well developed critical & analytical thinking skills.
- Excellent time management skills needed to prioritize among many competing priorities. Attention to detail needed to operate accurately and effectively.
- Mastery of Microsoft Office, especially Word and Excel, and use of health record for documentation and/or reporting.
- Ability to promote programs and services to community. Extensive understanding of patient care. Proficient in review of medical records and other patient care information.
- Demonstrated skills in verbal and written communication.
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality.
- Ability to promote and build teamwork and multidisciplinary care concept.
Minimum Qualifications
Education
- BSN required.
- Specialty certification and/or MSN preferred.
Experience
- Three years of experience in Oncology.
- Experience in nurse navigation preferred.
- Completion of national nurse navigation training preferred.
- Metric tracking skills.
Degrees, Licensures, Certifications
- Must have current or compact RN licensure in the state of North Carolina. BLS required.
Duke is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions), sexual orientation or military status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions:
Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
Nearest Major Market: Durham
Nearest Secondary Market: Raleigh
Work Arrangement: Regular
Requisition Number: 269120
Location: Raleigh, NC, US, 27710
Personnel Area: DUKE RALEIGH CAMPUS
Date: Apr 27, 2026
At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together.
About Duke Raleigh Hospital, A Campus of Duke University Hospital
Pursue your passion for caring with the Duke Raleigh Campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. With 204-beds, it is the third largest of the four Duke Health hospitals and offers a comprehensive array of services, including cancer, cardiovascular, neuroscience, advanced gastrointestinal, and wound healing care.
Nurse Navigator (Oncology Experienced RN)
Cary Cancer Center
Job Summary:
The Nurse Navigator (NN) is a professional RN with service line specific clinical knowledge who offers individualized assistance across the care continuum to patients, families, and caregivers to expedite and coordinate care, and address health system barriers. The NN assumes responsibility for the coordination of patient care through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaboration to achieve optimal patient outcomes with a focus on high-risk patients or those with complex care needs (including multidisciplinary care). The NN has a particular focus on improving transitions in care and adherence to care. Additionally, the NN functions as a clinical advocate and educator for patients. The NN assists to build and maintain community relationships to provide expedient and reliable access to quality care. The NN identifies and alleviates stressors during transitions and barriers to care with the aim to deliver a seamless model of care that benefits patients, family members, providers, and the healthcare team.
Work Performed
- Assess and facilitate coordination of multidisciplinary care across the care continuum.
- Provide communication, advocacy, and education in a culturally competent manner.
- Ability to clinically triage new patient referrals efficiently, to ensure timely access to care.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary care team and expedite sequence of patient's workup, active treatment, survivorship, and end of life care.
- Provide communication and reinforcement of clinical information and serve as a conduit between patient and providers/clinicians to address needs of patients.
- Targeted symptom assessment and management for identified patient population.
- Assess health literacy and educational needs of patient.
- Provide clinical education about diagnosis, treatment, side effects, and post-treatment care.
- Assess and document patient's needs, goals, and preferences and work to ensure such are integrated into treatment and care delivery.
- Bridge gaps in care, and assess/troubleshoot care transitions and barriers to care.
- Facilitate advanced care planning and transition of active treatment to palliative or end-of-life care.
- Document all patient encounters in EPIC.
- Enhance access to therapeutic clinical trials and optimize communication with patients, families and investigators regarding therapeutic clinical trials, including patient-specific education about clinical trials.
- Encourage and empower patients to actively participate in decision-making about their treatment and care. Possess leadership skills including staff education, preceptorship, patient education, and participate in process improvement initiatives.
- Practice according to professional and legal standards.
- Maintain navigation services documentation according to program standards.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Excellent written, oral, and conversational communication skills to effectively work with diverse groups.
- Ability to analyze, evaluate multiple solutions and solve complex problems using well developed critical & analytical thinking skills.
- Excellent time management skills needed to prioritize among many competing priorities. Attention to detail needed to operate accurately and effectively.
- Mastery of Microsoft Office, especially Word and Excel, and use of health record for documentation and/or reporting.
- Ability to promote programs and services to community. Extensive understanding of patient care. Proficient in review of medical records and other patient care information.
- Demonstrated skills in verbal and written communication.
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality.
- Ability to promote and build teamwork and multidisciplinary care concept.
Minimum Qualifications
Education
- BSN required.
- Specialty certification and/or MSN preferred.
Experience
- Three years of experience in Oncology.
- Experience in nurse navigation preferred.
- Completion of national nurse navigation training preferred.
- Metric tracking skills.
Degrees, Licensures, Certifications
- Must have current or compact RN licensure in the state of North Carolina. BLS required.
Duke is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions), sexual orientation or military status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions:
Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
Nearest Major Market: Durham
Nearest Secondary Market: Raleigh
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Patient Navigator
Frame your Australian credentials for U.S. employers
Australian bachelor's degrees in health sciences, nursing, or social work meet the E-3 specialty occupation requirement. Request a credential evaluation from a NACES-approved evaluator so hiring managers see your qualification as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree.
Target hospital systems with dedicated HR immigration support
Large hospital networks and federally qualified health centers process E-3 sponsorships regularly. Smaller community clinics often lack the HR infrastructure to file an LCA with the DOL, so focusing on mid-to-large employers shortens your path to an offer.
Search verified E-3 sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to find Patient Navigator roles at employers with active E-3 sponsorship history. Filtering by visa type saves you from applying to organizations unfamiliar with the process or unwilling to file.
Clarify the specialty occupation case before your interview
Patient Navigator roles can fall outside specialty occupation if the employer's job description accepts any bachelor's degree regardless of field. Confirm the posting requires a degree in a health-related discipline before investing time in the interview process.
Ask your employer to file the LCA before your visa interview date
The DOL-certified LCA must be in hand before you attend your consulate appointment. USCIS doesn't adjudicate E-3 petitions stateside for first-time applicants, so your employer's LCA timeline directly controls when you can schedule at the Sydney, Melbourne, or Perth consulate.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to manage LCA and consulate paperwork
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service handles the LCA submission, DS-160 preparation, and consulate document checklist end-to-end, so neither you nor your employer needs prior experience with the E-3 process to get it right.
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Find Patient Navigator JobsPatient Navigator E-3 Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Patient Navigator jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to search Patient Navigator roles at employers with confirmed E-3 sponsorship history. Generic job boards don't filter by visa type, so you spend time applying to employers who have never filed an LCA. Migrate Mate surfaces roles where sponsorship is already part of the hiring process, which matters for a specialized clinical support role like Patient Navigator.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Patient Navigator role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
It depends on how the employer defines the position. If the job description requires a bachelor's degree specifically in health sciences, social work, public health, or nursing, it meets the specialty occupation standard. Roles that accept any degree regardless of field, or that list a degree as preferred rather than required, risk a consular officer questioning whether the position qualifies. Getting the job description right before the LCA is filed protects the application.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Patient Navigator roles?
The E-3 has no annual cap and no lottery, which means an Australian national with a qualifying job offer can apply year-round without competing for a limited number of slots. H-1B registrations for the same role enter an oversubscribed lottery each March with no guarantee of selection. For Patient Navigators, the E-3 is a more reliable path because approval depends entirely on meeting the specialty occupation and degree requirements, not random selection.
Can I change employers after starting work on an E-3 as a Patient Navigator?
Yes, but the new employer must file a fresh LCA with the DOL before you begin work. The E-3 is employer-specific, so your current visa doesn't transfer automatically. You'll need a new LCA certification, a new DS-160, and a new consulate appointment unless you're already inside the U.S. and eligible to change status. Plan for at least several weeks of lead time before your intended start date with the new employer.
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