Job summary
- Main area
- Administrative Services
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 362-A-25-7017135
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stepping Hill Hospital
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Cancer Pathway Coordinator Gynaecology
Band 4
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
As an integral member of the Cancer Pathway Team, work with members of the Cancer Multidisciplinary Teams and administrative teams to
track and proactively manage suspected and diagnosed cancer patients, in line with national requirements, from referral through to either non-malignant diagnosis or first and subsequent treatment for cancer, and ensure national operational standards of waiting times are met.
Main duties of the job
Liaise with departments involved in providing care and core services to ensure planned treatment progresses smoothly and in a timely manner.
Co-ordinate Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) meetings
Facilitate data collection for suspected and diagnosed cancer patients and enter the information onto the appropriate databases.
Facilitate video-conferencing to ensure the timely and accurate transmission of discussion and data between the participating sites.
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Benefits we offer to you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Cancer Patient Tracking
• To work with the Cancer Access Manager and Cancer Services Manager to ensure national and local cancer targets are met, potential breach patients are highlighted and actions are taken to ensure breaches are avoided.
• Provide detailed breach analysis reports for any patient with waiting times outside of national standards within 5 days of the date of first treatment.
• Appropriate transfer and tracking of patient undergoing diagnostics or treatment at tertiary sites
• To collect and enter data at all stages on the suspected/confirmed cancer pathway for given tumour groups and record this information on the SCR database, ensuring, through liaison with the clinical MDT teams, that this data is accurate, timely and complete.
• Ensure data collected enables the full and accurate production of the PTL (Patient tracking list)
• To follow the Trust’s Cancer Targets Escalation SOP – highlighting issues to the relevant contacts in the required timescales.To ensure that exceptions and alterations to the waiting times of individual patients are appropriately supported by documentation and can be audited.
• Work alongside and in conjunction with the other Cancer Pathway Coordinators to provide cover and share best practice to enable continuous service even during periods of sickness or annual leave.
Responsibility for Patient Care
• Negotiate with all involved in cancer issues to ensure appropriate management of patient information and coordination of patient pathways.
• To alert high risk patients (potential breaches) to Cancer Access Manager and Cancer Services Manager.
• Establish and ensure the continuation of effective communication within Cancer Services and other Hospital Divisions.
• To be responsible for the receipt and dispatch of the Communication and Referral Proforma ensuring these are processed within local and national deadlines.
• To telephone patients regarding follow-up appointments, encouraging timely attendance and compliance with appointments.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require a Standard DBS check at a cost of £26.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GSCE Maths & English
- ECDL or equivalent computer literacy
- Administrative / office experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Understanding of medical terminology
- Experience of using / updating databases
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using NHS systems eg PAS, Somerset
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills
- Experience of forming good mulit professional relationships
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of cancer waiting time standards
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Katrina Wright
- Job title
- Gynaecology Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 419 5519
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