Job summary
- Main area
- Cancer Services
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 151-SF114
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Archipelago House, Building 1,
- Town
- Frimley
- Salary
- £27,857 - £30,570 per annum pro rata incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Macmillan Cancer Navigator
Band 4
Job overview
Are you looking for a role where you can really make a difference to our Cancer Patients experience with Frimley Health?
This role will support the coordination of care for cancer patients through their cancer pathways from pre-diagnosis to end of treatment. This role will be focussed around the telephone support of the cohort of patients who are referred to Frimley Health from local GPs, internal services and other trusts.
This role will be guided and supervised by the Macmillan Information and Support Officer in collaboration with the Head of Nursing Cancer and Macmillan Information & Support Manager.
The post holder will coordinate the care and support given to cancer patients, their families and health care professionals who contact the Macmillan Cancer Navigator service at Frimley Health. The remote cancer navigation service will act as a telephone based single point of access for people affected by cancer from pre-diagnosis to end of treatment and support. The post holder will also support recording of national audit data for cancer patients in collaboration with clinical teams to support various elements of the cancer pathway.
Main duties of the job
Co-ordinate care by providing a telephone/email based single point of access, for patients, carers and health care professionals from pre-diagnosis to treatment and living with and beyond cancer, and throughout their cancer journey.
Supporting Cancer Clinical nurse specialists by taking on administrative roles related to supporting Holistic Needs Assessment, documenting, tracking and recording, all patient and service users interactions.
The post holder will also provide information to patients and service users regarding support available during their cancer pathway.
Providing holistic support and information and signposting to existing support in the hospital and community. Working alongside registered practitioners to improve care for people with cancer, working closely with Clinical Nurse Specilialists and Allied Healthcare Professionals.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Evidence of further education beyond A level or equivalent work experience
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of further education
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of using Microsoft office for windows
- Management of complex administrative process
- Knowledge of administration procedures and experience of using multiple and complex IT systems
Desirable criteria
- Experience in the NHS environment
- Knowledge and understanding of the Cancer Waiting Times framework, Cancer Outcomes and Services Dataset and National Cancer Audit Datasets
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate sensitive information to people affected by cancer, HCPs and other service users
- Dealing professionally, promptly and sensitively and escalate problems, issues and complaints
- Ability to read and interpret complex data with attention to detail
Special Requirments
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel to and work on multiple sites as needed
Special requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to meet trust values
- Professional and confident approach
- Self motivated and enthusiastic
Desirable criteria
- Ability to travel to and from multiple sites
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Jessica Tutton
- Job title
- Macmillan Information & Support Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07572 458409
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