Cancer Care Navigator

Care Coordination is not one person’s role, job or responsibility. It is the joining up of services, coordination, information and communication between care givers, treatment providers, those living with and beyond cancer and their families that creates a seamless experience of care (NHS Improvement, 2011).

The purpose of this role is to complement the existing cancer site specific team. To help them support patients through diagnosis, treatment pathways and follow up. To ensure the provision of safe, seamless, appropriate service. This helps maximise the health and quality
of life of patient and carers.

Working in conjunction with the cancer site specific teams to provide coordination of high quality patient care through on-going telephone/ face to face assessment and proactive identification of needs using basic knowledge, approved tools and procedures.

You will be navigating the complex health and social care system, both during and following completion of cancer treatment, by building relationships with professionals and facilitating access to these services including generating referrals on the person’s behalf where necessary.

Including:

• Alert to site specific team of early detection of problems/ actions to reduce in-patient admissions.
• Documenting and monitoring all aspects of patient care coordination and service delivery.
• Track and action cancer Patient Tracking list (PTL), i.e. track surgery/histology/ radiology and OPAs and document all findings on Somerset data base

At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do and that is to provide a world class service that aligns with our vision of “excellent health care, improved health for all”. We are seeking to recruit staff who share our vision and values of making Dudley Group an incredible workplace.

We are committed to becoming a diverse and an inclusive employer and where people feel sense of belonging. Seeking to expand diversity within our teams, we positively encourage applications from under-represented groups such as ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQ+ groups. We are also under-represented in-terms of gender within nursing roles and we would welcome applications from people from male and non-binary backgrounds.

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust recognises the values and transferable skills that the Armed Forces community bring and recognise their compatibility with NHS roles.

We are committed to home life balance through flexible working and making reasonable adjustments where possible.

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake