Cancer Navigators

The Cancer Navigator post will play a pivotal role in navigating and tracking patients along their pathway, co-ordinating all hospital appointments, investigations and their treatment, whilst also identifying patients who may potentially breach national waiting times targets and Cancer Standards taking appropriate positive action to negate this possibility.

The post holder will work effectively within the surgery division (supporting Urology, Colorectal and Head & Neck) and other directorates involved in the delivery of cancer services by providing high quality person centred care to patients whom are on a cancer pathway.

The post holder will engage with and work alongside the senior medical staff, nursing staff, other health care professionals and partner organisations within the network across the patient journey
- Be able to analyse problems and suggest suitable solutions
- Be able to prioritise tasks, work to deadlines and manage own time
- Good interpersonal skills
- Effective negotiation and influencing skills
- Have the ability to maintain confidentiality at all times
- Be able to work effectively in a team
- Adaptable to change
- Knowledge of all cancer waiting times targets
- Competent in use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated

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