Rare cancers require not just specialized treatment, but a commitment to enhancing how patients experience care every day. As the Coordinator, Abdominal Sarcoma at Mount Sinai Hospital, you’ll collaborate with internationally-recognized sarcoma experts to directly influence how patients access, understand, and navigate their treatment. This position combines day-to-day patient guidance with opportunities to introduce innovative approaches that set new standards in rare cancer support. Here, your efforts will directly shape a more supportive, accessible path for those facing an abdominal sarcoma diagnosis.

Is this you? Are you the type of person who finds purpose in helping others make sense of uncertainty? You excel at translating medical language into accessible terms, helping patients and families understand their options and participate in decisions about their care. Your personable and compassionate approach allows you to build trust quickly, create space for honest questions, and ensure every individual feels respected and supported during vulnerable moments. These strengths directly shape how patients and families navigate their diagnosis by helping them feel confident and empowered as they move through a complex care journey.

You have a strong understanding of the Ontario healthcare system, enabling you to connect patients and families with the practical resources to help them navigate rare cancer care. Always resourceful, you go beyond standard supports to proactively identify new ways of helping patients. From coordinating specialized referrals to tracking down community supports, you anticipate and address obstacles before they become barriers, making complex processes manageable for those you are supporting. Patients and the care team benefit from your initiative and expertise, experiencing fewer delays and a smoother, more responsive care journey.

If you have a talent for using technology to improve patient experience, this role will put your skills to work. Whether updating our sarcoma website, creating new patient materials, or streamlining how information is shared, you enhance resources and their accessibility. Your excellent decision-making with patients extends to supporting clinicians, trainees, and researchers. These traits help to ensure patients and care teams stay connected and informed.

About This Team Our internationally recognized sarcoma program at Mount Sinai Hospital offers specialized care for patients with rare and complex soft tissue sarcomas and soft tissue tumours.

As the largest multi-disciplinary sarcoma program in Canada, we are leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of sarcomas, educating future healthcare workers and advancing care through clinical trials.

We are also one of the top sarcoma research centres in the world. Our researchers are dedicated to learning more about sarcoma and discovering and developing new and improved treatments for patients with soft tissue sarcomas.

In This Role You Will

• Be a direct point of contact for patients diagnosed with a possible or probable sarcoma. Help coordinate physical, social, emotional, and practical needs for sarcoma patients and their caregivers as they navigate their sarcoma journey from the point of contact onwards
• Develop metrics to assess the usefulness of providing an Abdominal Sarcoma Coordinator
• Connect with new patients before their first appointment visit to ensure all necessary tests and supporting information have been completed and uploaded in a timely fashion
• Be present at outpatient clinics to meet with and provide resources to patients. Perform related tasks to make it easier for patients to receive the best possible health care (for example, connecting with social work, child care support, housing/accommodation options, transportation assistance, helping with travel grants and other paperwork, etc.)
• Explain test results, diagnoses, and other medical outcomes to the patients. Assist patients manage multidisciplinary care
• Provide support to the clinical team to streamline the patient experience
• Update, maintain, and communicate the Sarcoma website, enhancing its usefulness for sarcoma patients. Develop and make available additional resources for sarcoma patients
• Identify ways to build the patient support network, including being a lead player in developing and implementing a sarcoma peer-to-peer mentoring project
• Organize, record, and distribute outcomes from regional and local sarcoma tumour boards
• Perform other duties consistent with the job classification as required

Job Requirements Mandatory

• Successful completion of a Bachelor’s degree (BSc) in health sciences-related discipline
• 3 years of experience providing guidance to patients within a health care setting

Preferred

• Advanced training or a degree in nursing, social work, or a related discipline
• Previous experience with EPIC electronic health record (EHR) software
• Proficiency with WordPress content management system (CMS)
• Previous experience in clinical research

Skills and Knowledge

• Proficiency using software such as Microsoft Office (Excel and Word) as well as patient record systems

If this sounds like you and you feel ready to build your career within health care apply now and let us know why you’d be a great addition to our team.