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title: 'Private Oncology Care Navigator at Arootah'
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# Private Oncology Care Navigator at Arootah

- **Company:** Arootah
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $125–$175/hr
- **Employment:** part-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/arootah/66d810c7-342e-455f-a15f-39178f420a32

## Job description

Role Type: Private Oncology Care Navigation & Patient Support Location: Primarily Remote / Virtual; occasional in-person support may be considered

Position Overview We are seeking an experienced Private Oncology Care Navigator to provide highly personalized support to an individual navigating a breast cancer diagnosis, treatment planning, and related health considerations. The ideal candidate will have substantial hands-on oncology experience—preferably supporting individuals with breast cancer—and combine strong clinical literacy with exceptional care navigation, organization, patient advocacy, communication, and interpersonal skills. The Care Navigator will serve as a knowledgeable and highly organized partner who helps the client navigate the healthcare system, prepare for medical appointments, organize and understand information from physicians, coordinate across multiple specialists, track recommendations and follow-up items, and implement physician-approved health and wellness priorities. This is not a physician role. The Care Navigator will complement, not replace, the client’s medical team and will maintain clear professional boundaries around diagnosis, treatment recommendations, and other medical decisions.

## Key Responsibilities

The Care Navigator will help the client and family:

- Navigate the cancer-care journey, including diagnostic testing, specialist consultations, treatment planning, surgery, systemic therapies, radiation, recovery, follow-up, and survivorship as applicable.
- Prepare for medical appointments by organizing relevant information and developing concise, prioritized questions for oncologists, surgeons, cardiologists, and other specialists.
- Follow up after appointments by organizing physician recommendations, identifying unresolved questions, and translating agreed-upon plans into clear next steps.
- Coordinate information across providers, including oncology, breast surgery, cardiology/cardio-oncology, primary care, nutrition, and other specialists, with appropriate client authorization.
- Maintain an organized care plan tracking appointments, testing, physician recommendations, medications, pending decisions, questions, and follow-up actions.
- Support informed decision-making by helping the client understand general medical terminology and treatment pathways and identify questions that should be addressed by the appropriate physician.
- Facilitate second opinions and additional specialist consultations when requested, including helping organize the records and questions needed for those consultations.
- Provide patient advocacy, helping ensure that the client’s priorities, concerns, and questions are effectively communicated to the healthcare team.
- Support execution and accountability around physician-approved priorities involving nutrition, hydration, medication adherence, sleep, appropriate movement, recovery, stress management, and other health behaviors.
- Provide calm, compassionate support throughout the care journey while recognizing when medical, nutritional, or psychological issues should be referred to the appropriate licensed professional.

## Preferred Oncology Experience

Strong preference will be given to candidates with substantial direct experience supporting individuals with breast cancer.

Candidates should be familiar with breast-cancer care and terminology, including:

- Pathology, tumor grade, and staging ER, PR, and HER2 status
- Breast imaging and lymph-node evaluation
- Lumpectomy, mastectomy, and sentinel lymph-node procedures
- Radiation therapy
- Chemotherapy and other systemic therapies
- Endocrine therapy
- Treatment sequencing
- Second opinions and multidisciplinary cancer care
- Recovery, surveillance, and survivorship

Experience with invasive lobular carcinoma is a plus.

The successful candidate should be capable of explaining general concepts in understandable language while appropriately referring individualized interpretation, prognosis, and treatment decisions to the client’s physicians.

Complex Care, Nutrition & Overall Health

Experience supporting medically complex oncology patients is strongly preferred. Familiarity with cardio-oncology and coordinating cancer care with cardiologists and other specialists would be particularly valuable.

The Care Navigator should also understand the importance of maintaining adequate nutrition, healthy weight, physical strength, and muscle mass during cancer treatment.

The role may include helping the client implement recommendations established by physicians and/or a registered dietitian related to:

- Adequate calories and protein
- Healthy weight maintenance or weight restoration
- Muscle preservation
- Hydration
- Managing barriers to eating
- Appropriate physical activity
- Sleep, recovery, and stress management

Individualized medical nutrition therapy should remain under the direction of the appropriate licensed healthcare professionals.

## Qualifications & Ideal Background

We are particularly interested in candidates with backgrounds such as:

- Oncology Registered Nurse (RN)
- Oncology Nurse Navigator
- Breast Cancer Nurse Navigator
- Oncology Nurse Practitioner
- Certified oncology nurse
- Oncology Patient/Care Navigator
- Oncology Social Worker with substantial care-navigation experience
- Other licensed or credentialed healthcare professionals with significant oncology experience

Additional preference will be given to candidates with:

- Several years of direct oncology experience
- Significant breast-cancer experience
- Experience navigating multidisciplinary cancer care
- Experience with medically complex patients
- Familiarity with cardio-oncology
- Patient-advocacy experience
- Health-coaching or behavior-change training
- Cancer-nutrition knowledge

Core Competencies

The strongest candidate will combine:

Oncology expertise + breast-cancer experience + care navigation + patient advocacy + exceptional organization + accountability + excellent communication + emotional intelligence + sound judgment.

The individual should be proactive, compassionate, highly organized, discreet, trustworthy, and comfortable working collaboratively with the client’s physicians and family.

Most importantly, the Care Navigator should know when to help, when to ask questions, and when an issue needs to be referred back to a physician or other licensed healthcare professional.

Scope of Practice

This role is intended to complement—not replace—licensed medical care.

The Care Navigator will not independently diagnose medical conditions, determine prognosis, prescribe treatment, select cancer therapies, recommend starting or stopping prescribed medications, override physician recommendations, or provide individualized interpretations of pathology, imaging, laboratory results, or other diagnostic findings outside the scope of their professional license.

The Care Navigator will not recommend unproven therapies as substitutes for evidence-based cancer treatment or advise the client to delay or discontinue conventional medical care.

When medical judgment is required, the Care Navigator should help identify the issue, formulate the appropriate questions, and obtain guidance from the relevant licensed healthcare provider.

Availability, Confidentiality & Working Relationship

This is intended to be a high-touch, part-time engagement rather than a traditional fixed-hour administrative position.

The engagement may include regular scheduled sessions, preparation before important medical appointments, follow-up after specialist consultations, care-plan organization, tracking outstanding actions and decisions, and reasonable communication between sessions when significant care-navigation needs arise.

Occasional participation in or support surrounding important medical appointments may also be appropriate when requested and authorized.

Because the role may involve access to sensitive personal and medical information, the Care Navigator must demonstrate exceptional discretion and maintain confidentiality in accordance with applicable professional, legal, and contractual obligations.

Specific scheduling, availability, communication expectations, compensation, and scope of engagement will be discussed during the interview process.

## About Arootah

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Arootah is a peak-performance advisory firm at the intersection of finance, technology, and wellness, providing executive coaching, business consulting, and talent solutions to alternative investment firms and financial executives.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped/self-funded; no public funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA (remote-first operations)
- **Founded**: Year not publicly disclosed
- **Founders**: Rich Bello (Founder & CEO) — previously COO of Blue Ridge Capital, a $10B hedge fund he helped scale; earlier roles at Morgan Stanley and EY

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Alternative investments (hedge funds, private equity, family offices), executive coaching, talent acquisition/development, business consulting, wellness optimization
- **Target customers**: B2B — hedge funds, private equity firms, family offices, and their service providers; also individual C-suite executives and high-growth companies
- **Mission/purpose**: "Empower companies, executives, and individuals to maximize their full potential" by applying hedge-fund-proven strategies to raise standards, overcome challenges, and achieve results ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))

## Products & Services
- **Talent Solutions (Talent Acquisition)**: Institutional-grade, senior-level recruiting across investment and non-investment roles for alternative investment firms. Supports contingent, retained, and outsourced recruiting models and covers 18 core disciplines including operations, finance, compliance, investor relations, technology, and business development ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/))
- **Talent Development**: Executive and team coaching, leadership training, and performance effectiveness programs aimed at measurable improvements in decision-making, collaboration, and execution ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/))
- **Fractional Expertise / Consulting**: Senior experts placed within firms across 18 functional disciplines on a scoped-engagement basis — senior judgment without the cost of permanent hires ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/))
- **Professional Coaching**: One-on-one and team coaching for financial executives and their teams to achieve peak performance ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/about/))
- **Business Consulting**: Pragmatic strategies to stimulate growth, inspire peak performance, and strengthen accountability ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/about/))
- **Wellness Optimization**: A virtual suite of wellness resources plus a physical Arootah Wellness Headquarters in NYC featuring an organic restaurant, spa, apothecary, elixir bar, bookshop, and boutique ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))
- **App & Software Development**: Internal development of digital tools to support the wellness and coaching offerings ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding — not publicly available; notable scale signal: network of **700+ advisors and consultants** across functional areas ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/about/meet-the-team/))
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors disclosed. Leadership pedigree is the primary credibility signal — Founder Rich Bello scaled Blue Ridge Capital to $10B AUM; President & COO E. Kurt Kim built and operated a multi-strategy credit hedge fund complex and exited a fintech platform; Head of Talent Solutions Chris Lillis previously held leadership roles at Jackson Lucas, PJT Partners, Two Sigma, and UBS ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/about/meet-the-team/))
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring across multiple roles (COO — Alternative Investments, Director of Investment Operations, Quantitative Researcher, Tax Compliance Manager, Investment Analyst) posted on Lever ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/arootah/)); expansion of Talent Solutions practice into a full Talent Spectrum model (acquisition + development + fractional leadership); investment in a physical wellness headquarters in NYC; AI-assisted recruiting pipeline signals scaling operations ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/arootah/))

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hedge-fund-native playbook**: Strategies are distilled from the hedge fund industry and extrapolated to any client — a differentiated approach vs. generic consulting firms ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))
- **Fractional senior talent model**: Clients get seasoned expertise across 18 disciplines at engagement-level scope, without permanent-hire cost — a flexible alternative to full-time hires ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/))
- **Talent spectrum under one roof**: Recruiting, development, and fractional placement are integrated, aligning human capital with strategy end-to-end ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/))
- **Founder credibility**: Rich Bello's track record building a top-tier $10B hedge fund gives instant trust in alternative investment circles ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/about/meet-the-team/))
- **Differentiated wellness angle**: A physical wellness headquarters and virtual wellness resources create a unique finance-tech-wellness intersection unlikely to be replicated by pure-play consulting firms ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Talent Solutions practice**: Building out institutional-grade hiring, talent development, and fractional leadership offerings as the flagship growth engine ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/))
- **Expanding the advisory footprint**: Leveraging the 700+ advisor network to serve more hedge funds, private equity firms, family offices, and service providers ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/about/meet-the-team/))
- **Vertical integration of services**: Deepening the connection between talent acquisition, executive coaching, business consulting, and wellness optimization to create a full-spectrum client offering ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))
- **Building out the wellness product suite**: Developing the virtual wellness platform and growing the NYC physical wellness hub ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Headquartered in NYC but operates remotely with flexible WFH positions "without sacrificing constructive collaboration" ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))
- **Professional development**: Strong emphasis on goal setting, accountability, and results-driven formulas for both clients and employees; the firm actively supports and encourages professional growth ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))
- **In-house wellness perks**: Free fitness programming, educational content, tracking apps, and group fitness classes for team members ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))
- **Mission-driven environment**: The company seeks people who are "energetic, respectful, reliable, authentic, driven by progress, disciplined, and passionate" — a culture built around peak performance and accountability ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))
- **High-caliber network**: Opportunity to work alongside a team with deep alternative investment pedigree (Two Sigma, PJT Partners, UBS, Blue Ridge Capital, Morgan Stanley, EY) and alongside 700+ advisors ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/about/meet-the-team/))
- **AI-enhanced hiring process**: Uses AI tools to support recruiting (resume review, verification signals), but final decisions are made by humans — a signal of an innovation-forward people team ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/arootah/))

## Sources
1. [arootah.com — Careers](https://arootah.com/careers/)
2. [arootah.com — Talent Solutions](https://arootah.com/)
3. [jobs.lever.co — Arootah](https://jobs.lever.co/arootah/)
4. [arootah.com — About](https://arootah.com/about/)
5. [arootah.com — Meet the Team](https://arootah.com/about/meet-the-team/)

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