Lung Cancer Pathway Navigator
5 months ago
As a Cancer Pathway Navigator you will ensure concise and daily tracking of each step in a patient pathway, expediting appointments/visits ensuring patients are not delayed at any point in their pathway.
You will actively participate in PTL meetings and also work collaboratively with other regional Trusts to support the smooth transition of patients referred in from tertiary centres.
The post holder will act as patientadvocate and facilitator to overcome barriers to timely access to Lung Cancer services, utilising interpersonal skills and resources across the health service, third sector and local authorities.
Close liaison with the wider multidisciplinary team will be essential to ensuring investigations are booked, reports are available and staging is complete in time for follow up appointments.
Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) was established in 2006 and we are one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country and provide services to over 2.5 million residents of Nottingham.
NUH are, by any measure, a large, complex, person-centred organisation. With over 17,000 employees from a wide range of professional backgrounds, they are one of the region’s largest employers.
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust have various staff benefits. Some of the benefits of working for NUH include;
- Access to the Staff Wellbeing programme including our 24hour staff advice and emotional support service, financial advice service, a staff physiotherapy service and staff support networks
- Access to Spiritual and Pastoral Care Services
- Salary sacrifice schemes
- Cycle to work and travel passes
- NHS discounts
- Flexible working
Details of these and other benefits can be found on our intranet pages which you will have access when you commence with Team NUH.
In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert.
- Proactively monitor patients’ progress along their pathway on a daily basis, highlighting problems to the management team and escalating where necessary according to local protocols.
- Facilitate and coordinate triage meetings and ensure that actions arising are completed.
- Attend local, regional and specialist MDT's to understand next steps in the patient's pathway, working with the clinical team to ensure the patient is promptly fully informed.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with the wider MDT in pursuit of delivery of care within defined cancer wait time targets and NOLCP timed milestones.
- Actively identify situations where dates of diagnostic tests and treatment may not be scheduled appropriately, exercising own judgement and be responsible for ensuring appointments/procedures are expedited as necessary with guidance from line manager.
- Work closely with the administrative services across sites (including booking team), diagnostic services and clinical team to ensure next actions are regularly updated and completed.
- Develop and maintain knowledge of the lung cancer pathway provision across all subspecialties and have detailed understanding of steps within patient pathway and the associated flows of information.
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