Lung Cancer Pathway Navigator

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Surgery Division at The Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Cancer Pathway Navigator. We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated, confident and dynamic individual who will be a central point of contact for patients on a rapid diagnostic, suspicious of cancer pathway; helping to ensure the individual needs of the patient are supported, whilst facilitating a seamless, coordinated pathway delivery, such as through escalation of requirements to relevant departments, supporting a better, more personalised diagnostic experience for patients.

We are look for a lung Cancer Pathway Navigator.

The post holder will identify and resolve barriers to care, working flexibly and responsively to unlock bottlenecks and delays. You will therefore be required to work autonomously and have strong organisation, communication and negotiation skills, as well as commitment and compassion for patients and their quality of care and experience.
- To screen trust wide 2ww clinic lists to ensure relevant information is gathered in preparation to patient investigations
- From 2WW cancer clinic, engage with the patients, to establish a rapport and act as a single point of contact for the patient.
- Manage any tracking system or databases for the pathway within the Trust and ensure a contemporaneous version is available and accessible to colleagues’
- To ensure the referral information, patient letter and any relevant clinical information is available for fist clinical vetting/assessment, including performance status/frailty score and recent blood tests.
- 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.
- Identify patients who are at risk of breaching the pathway milestones and standards and escalate appropriately to enable early and prompt actions to prevent breaches.
- We 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
- Have a full understanding of trust policies and processes and Cancer Wait Time Guidance relating to cancer pathways and navigate patients through their diagnostics and treatment pathways within these principles

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs over 8,600 staff and has a turnover of over £450 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.