Balancing Work & Cancer Webinar: Balancing Work & Caregiving

Caring for a loved one with cancer can include as many components as a regular job. The challenge is to meet these many responsibilities while preserving energy for yourself and your family. Join this webinar to learn about considerations when navigating caretaking responsibilities and employment.  

Topics covered include: 

  • How to address self-care tactics while balancing job and caregiving responsibilities 
  • Communicating effectively with employers and coworkers to set-up a plan for working while acting as a caregiver 
  • Best practices to approach understanding job responsibilities, workplace policies, legal protections, and how they can fit in with the role of caregiving 

Date & Time

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 — 6:00 PM ET/ 3:00 PM PT

Registration

All sessions are free and open to cancer patients, survivors, healthcare professionals and caregivers. Register for this live and interactive webinar by clicking “Register” below. All attendees must abide by CAC's Code of Conduct.

The webinar will be hosted on the Zoom platform. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with phone and web log-in information. There is no registration deadline.

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This is the eleventh of 12 sessions in our Balancing Work & Cancer Webinar series. Click here to learn more about the other sessions and register!

Content for this session is authored by Rebecca Nellis, MPP; Rachel Becker, LMSW; and Nicole Jarvis, LMSW.

Sponsors

The 2025 Balancing Work and Cancer Webinar Series is made possible by its sponsors

Genentech P&G Beauty

Speaker

Brandon Gottlieb

Brandon Gottlieb has more than 20 years in the talent acquisition industry. He has worked successfully on both the agency and corporate sides and is always up to date with the latest trends and technology in the industry. His background is comprised of companies large and small, public and private, startup, and more established.

Currently, he is Director, Talent Advisor, at the largest nonprofit health plan in New York State. While he is best known for his network within bleeding-edge technology, data, and analytics circles, Brandon has supported many industries, including legal, marketing, finance, and sales, just to name a few. He is also heavily focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging strategies.

Brandon’s daughter battled recurrent medulloblastoma from June of 2014 until her tragic passing, in March of 2018. Brandon understands the stress and challenge of balancing a professional career while battling illness.

As a Career Coach with Cancer and Careers, Brandon gets to combine the two main aspects of his life, applying his professional experience offering advice and career coaching to cancer survivors.

Brandon is often asked to speak on panels and staffing forums on a variety of topics within the staffing industry.

Brandon received a BA from the University at Albany, and an MA in organizational psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. He lives at home in Rockland County, New York, with his wife, Dara, and their daughter, Carly..

Nicole Jarvis, LMSW, Assistant Director of Programs, Cancer and Careers

Nicole Jarvis joined the team in October of 2015. As Assistant Director of Programs, she oversees the Financial Assistance Grant Program, Regional Conferences, Ask a Career Coach message board and accreditation. Nicole also provides direct support and referrals to the many patients, survivors and healthcare professionals who reach out to the organization via phone and email as well as presenting on employment topics to patient and healthcare groups in the cancer in community.

Nicole received her Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a focus on women’s health. While in Madison, she was actively involved with Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin, pursuing work on legislative issues related to access to reproductive healthcare. Following graduation, she worked at Memorial Sloan Kettering for four years in the chemotherapy unit and for a renal oncologist, until attaining her Master of Social Work degree from Hunter College, in 2013. Nicole worked as a social worker in the child welfare arena, advocating for parents in family court, prior to joining Cancer and Careers.

Accommodations

To request accommodations, please email cancerandcareers@cew.org

Accreditation

Agenda

6:00 PM – 6:05 PM ET: Welcome, Speaker Introduction

6:05 PM – 6:50 PM ET: Overview of considerations for navigating caretaking responsibilities and employment

6:50 PM – 7:00 PM ET: Questions

Learning Objectives

  • Attendees will be able to describe the impact of caregiving responsibilities on a caregivers job.
  • Attendees will be able to identify best practices for information gathering and organization in order to create a plan for balancing work and caregiving responsibilities.
  • Attendees will be able to give examples of strategies for caregivers to communicate at work, including disclosure and collaborating with supervisors and coworkers.

Credits Information

One (1) continuing education credit will be provided free of charge to eligible oncology nurses, social workers, and HR professionals upon approval from the agencies listed below.

Social Workers

  • This program is approved by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work (Approval #0072) for 1 continuing education hour.
  • Cancer and Careers, #1814, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Cancer and Careers maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 06/10/2023 – 06/10/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credits.

Oncology Nurses

  • Provider approved by the State of California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 16673, for 1 continuing education credit per session.

HR Professionals

  • Cancer and Careers is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. This program is valid for 1 PDC per session for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit www.SHRM.org.

Requirements to Receive Credits

CEW Foundation (aka Cancer and Careers) maintains responsibility for programs. Healthcare professionals of all disciplines should contact their regulatory board(s) to determine course approval for their specific license(s) and/or certification(s). Please note that regulatory boards may not accept duplicate contact hours (i.e., CEs awarded for webinar sessions with similar titles offered in this or prior calendar years) as valid for license and/or certification renewal.

If you plan on requesting continuing education credits for a webinar series, you MUST complete all of the following steps:

  1. Register for each live webinar presentation for which you plan on requesting a CE.
  2. Prior to the session, you will receive an email with phone and web log-in information.
  3. You must attend the live presentation of the webinar Please note that participants who "listen-in" on another participant's line will not be eligible for credit.
  4. An email with links to a post-session test and an evaluation form will be sent within 48 hours of the webinar. If you do not receive this email with 2 business days of the webinar, please email cancerandcareers@cew.org
  5. Both the post-session test and evaluation form must be completed and submitted within two weeks of the date that the webinar was held. For example, if a webinar is held January 1, these two documents will be due January 15th. The date that these documents are due will be stated during the webinar, and again in the follow-up email that is sent to you.
  6. You must pass the post-session test with a score of 80% or higher. You will see your score when you submit your post-test. Please press done, regardless of your score. You will be taken to a confirmation page where you will have the opportunity to re-take the test up to two (2) additional times to obtain a score of 80% or higher. Any submissions beyond the first three will not be considered.
  7. You will be notified via email of your status in qualifying for a CE no later than 30 days after the date of the webinar. For example, for a webinar held January 1, notifications will be sent out no later than February 1.
  8. You must abide by CAC's Code of Conduct.

Certificates

Those who meet all the requirements above will receive a certificate via email within 30 days of the webinar.

Bibliography

Bibliographies are available to attendees by request. To request them, please email cancerandcareers@cew.org, including the titles of the session(s).

Questions or Grievances

If you have any questions about earning continuing education credits, please email cancerandcareers@cew.org. For information on our grievance policy, please click here.

System Requirements

Live webinars will be hosted on the Zoom platform. Click here for Zoom’s system requirements for more information.