Skin Cancer Patient Navigator
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Statws y swydd wag: Closed
Closed for applications on:
Manylion allweddol
Lleoliad
- Gwefan
- Clifton Hospital
- Cyfeiriad
- Pershore Road
- Tref
- Lytham St Annes
- Cod post
- FY81PB
- Major / Minor Region
- Swydd Gaerhirfryn
Math o gontract a phatrwm gwaith
- Contract
- Cyfnod Penodol: 12 mis (fixed term 12 months)
- Oriau
- Llawnamser - 37.5 awr yr wythnos (37.5 hours)
Cyflog
- Cyflog
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum (pro rata for part time)
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 4)
Arbenigedd
- Prif leoliad
- Skin
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
The Patient Navigator role post holder will be responsible for supporting patients and their will be responsible for supporting patients and their support network for skin cancer,
The Navigator post holder will support patients and their support network from initial referral onward to first definitive treatment.
The Navigator will work directly and indirectly with patients and their support network to assist in coordinating their care through their diagnostic journey. Identifying, escalating and managing issues that patients may have with transport attending appointments, lack of understanding about diagnostic investigations and any additional support requirements.
The navigator post holder will be involved from the beginning of the cancer pathway, GP referral into the cancer pathway at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals.
An integral part of the role will be supporting multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and wider clinical team for patients with suspected cancer to achieve a definitive diagnostic by day 28.
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- Provide empathy and support to patients and their carers to establish positive relationships
- Key point of contact for patients, patient support network and health care professional during diagnostic and treatment.
- Effectively communicate with patients to ensure they are well prepared for their clinical investigations, providing appropriate advice and information regarding all aspects of investigations and appointments
- Liaise with patients and / or the clinical team to effectively communicate any follow up appointments, scans and admissions to ensure a smooth transition along the pathway from diagnostic to decision to treat and beyond into treatment activities
- Assist patients and their support network to access appropriate information.
- Support patients and their support network by sign posting to a range of support services (e.g., psychological support, post diagnostic support or lifestyle changes
- Act appropriately when exposed to distressing or emotional circumstances indirectly or directly including over the telephone, email and other methods of communication.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Working for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will provide you with lots of opportunity to develop your skills and further your career.
As a Trust we are committed to:
- Developing new roles and ways of working to ensure a flexible and innovative approach to staffing
- Real equality of opportunity
- Continual development and learning for all staff
- Achieving a work-life balance
We are committed to the effective recruitment, retention and development of our employees, which is why we offer a great working environment, an attractive range of benefits and excellent opportunities for training and development.
The Trust is accredited as a Disability Confident employer. That means we recognise our obligations to ensure that people with disabilities are afforded equal opportunity to enter employment and progress if and where possible.
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Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.
The ideal candidate will have knowledge and understanding of the national targets assigned to cancer, 2 week wait, 28 day FDS, 31 decision to treat and 62 day target.
The post holder will act as the administrator supporting the clinician’s managing patients journey through the pathway.
The post holder will be required to use the Somerset Cancer Database to record data.
It will be part of the Navigators role to help improve both patient experience and patient compliance, by coordinating care to reduce the number of appointments that are missed by patients (both outpatient and diagnostic investigation).
The post holder will work with the cancer MDT team and wider clinical team, working closely with MDT Coordinators, Cancer Trackers, Clinical Offices, Appointments Centre, Central Booking Office, Diagnostic and Therapy Departments to ensure patients are actively managed through the prostate cancer pathway.
The post holder will be expected to work across a range of IT systems to coordinate booking of patient appointments.
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Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Good general education
- Evidence of ongoing professional development.
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience of working in a healthcare setting for a minimum of two years
- Experience of managing priorities under pressure, to meet service needs and strict deadlines
- Experience of working directly with clinical staff at all levels
- Experience of coordinating a patient workload
- Experience of working within a hospital environment
- Experience of hospital-based information systems (HISS)
- Experience of attending meetings and minute/taking
- Knowledge of clinical terminology
- Knowledge of national cancer targets and guidelines
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels and in difficult circumstances
- IT skills (Microsoft Office, Word, Excel), a good level of computer literacy, including database, spreadsheet and word processing skills
- Excellent organisational and administrative skills with the ability to coordinate and prioritise workload
- Ability to use own initiative and be an effective and responsible team member
- Ability to work well under pressure, to tight deadlines and remain calm in difficult situations.
- Ability to manage own workload
- Ability to understand processes and identify/solve problems within them.
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Joanne Beavers
- Teitl y swydd
- Recruiting Manager
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 01253 953945
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