Job summary
- Main area
- Cancer Data Co-ordinator
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- 12 months (12 Months Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7372491JA
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Cancer Data Co-ordinator
Band 3
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
The role involves tracking patients through their cancer pathway ensuring they meet all of the National Cancer Waiting Times Targets. The role includes the occasional cover of multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings and the use of video conferencing equipment. Applicants should have a good IT skills and an understanding of medical terminology which is essential. The ability to work with concentration and accuracy and to liaise with staff at all levels is also required. The post-holder will be expected to work closely with the Cancer Pathway Coordinators in a team environment.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made."
Main duties of the job
To extract clinical and administrative data from case notes and other agreed sources for the purpose of cancer registration, conforming to the National Cancer Registration Service (NCRS), requirements and standards, applying an understanding of the principles of cancer registration. To comply with National Cancer Waiting Times targets and deadlines.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The role involves tracking patients through their cancer pathway ensuring they meet all of the National Cancer Waiting Times Targets.
- To extract clinical and administrative data from Trust IT systems and other agreed sources for the purpose of cancer registration, conforming to the National Cancer Registration Service (NCRS), requirements and standards, applying an understanding of the principles of cancer registration.
- To comply with National Cancer Waiting Times targets and deadlines.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good level of general education, with a minimum of 3 GCSE grades A-C in English Language, Mathematics and another related subject or equivalent qualification and/or experience.
Desirable criteria
- ECDL/ICDL Certificate
- Knowledge of the National Cancer Minimum Dataset
- Ability to prioritise and co-ordinate workloads to deadlines
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
- Stacey Ballands
- Job title
- Cancer Tracking and Information Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03448118111
- Additional information
Tel: 03448118111 ext:114075
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