Band 4 Cancer Assurance Officer-ent

5 days ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom University Hospitals Birmingham Full time

**Job summary**:
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and highly motivated Cancer Assurance Officer for the Head and Neck team within the ENT Department at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The right person will be forward thinking, able to embrace change and work within a busy environment

This vacancy offers an excellent opportunity to join a professional and dedicated Head and Neck team committed to providing a first-class service.

**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:

- To have full understanding of Trust and National targets relating to cancer and other waiting times and to navigate patients through their diagnostic and treatment pathways within these principles.
- Working under limited supervision for the tracking of all patients diagnosed with cancer or suspected of having cancer, in order to ensure a timely diagnostic and treatment process and accurate entry of clinical data.
- Co-ordinating patient care throughout the pathway to ensure timely diagnosis, treatment and follow up.
- Address and support the Head and Neck team by responding to the often complex workload
- To proactively monitor patients' progress along their pathway, highlighting problems to the cancer and directorate management team and escalating where necessary according to local protocols.
- To identify patients who are likely to breach their targets and escalate appropriately according to local guidance to enable action to be taken to prevent breaches.
- To understand service provision for cancer patients within the Network, the steps along the patient pathway and the associated flows of information. This will include referral processes, diagnostic and treatment options and involves using the Trust's computer systems (Clinical Portal, Concerto, PICS, Oceano)

**About us**:
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

**Job description**:
*Please Note*: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:
GCSE or equivalent to Level 2 Functional Skills Maths & English

Evidence of continuing professional development

**Experience**:
**Essential**:
Previous experience of working in an NHS/Healthcare clinical setting

Evidence of good communication skills with both patients and clinicians

Experience of supervision

Experience of multi-professional working

Experience of working with patients and carers

Experience of coordinating patient pathways

Awareness of the importance of confidentiality and discretion

**Disclosure and Barring Service Check**:



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