Lung Cancer Patient Navigator

7 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The overall purpose of the RAPID lung cancer service is to enable the diagnosis of lung cancer quickly in order to ensure patients have timely access to treatment

This person will undertake the role of caring for a group of patients through indirect supervision by professionally qualified staff to aid in deliverance of all aspects of care so as to ensure patient focused care is delivered safely and timely. Communication both verbal and non-verbal is a key skill required for this role.

This role will include working alongside the wider lung cancer service and bronchoscopy unit staff and include administrative duties. This role will support the extension of the single queue for requesting and scheduling procedures across the Greater Manchester hospitals and will involve working within a multi-disciplinary team to defined deadlines.

The RAPID programme which stands for ‘Rapid Access to Pulmonary Investigations and Diagnosis’ is a project launched by the lung cancer team based at Wythenshawe Hospital to dramatically reduce the time taken to complete investigations for patients where there is any suspicion of lung cancer. The team covers lung cancer diagnostics, radiology bookings and the CURE team managing patients with tobacco addiction. This role has come about to help support the expansion of the single queue scheduling service for diagnostic procedures across the Greater Manchester hospitals.

Previous knowledge of working in a relevant hospital based role and/or in a clerical role is essential.

In return we will provide a comprehensive induction programme and you will be appraised on a yearly basis with a view to developing knowledge and skills where appropriate.

For further information please refer to job description.

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

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