Cancer Tracker

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Corporate Cancer Team for a dynamic and proactive individual with excellent interpersonal and operational skills.

This is a challenging role where you will be required to track all suspected Cancer patients across specific sites to ensure National Standards of 28, 31 and 62 days are met.

You will work as part of the wider Cancer team to ensure data quality and data completeness for all patients.

You will need to be flexible and adaptable with excellent organisational skills. You will be required to manage your own workload, escalate concerns and ensure all deadlines are adhered to.

The key features of the role are ensuring that all patients with suspected cancer are tracked against the national 28, 31 and 62 day cancer waiting time standards. This includes highlighting any potential breaches of the targets to the managers and the clinical teams in a timely fashion.

We have 9000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Support and implement the delivery of robust systems for identifying, tracking and monitoring of treatment times for cancer patients in order to ensure that the Trust is able to comply with national cancer standards.

Work closely with the relevant disciplines of staff within the Trust and with external agencies, in mapping the cancer patient journey from diagnosis to treatment, highlighting bottlenecks, opportunities for improvement and appropriate pathways of care and relevant to the Trust’s cancer agenda.

To develop a good working knowledge of anatomy, terminology, treatments, drugs & medication, pathology and clinical coding relating to cancer.

To collate and upload information of the highest quality and validity to supporting databases linked to patient pathways - this includes CWT, COSD & the national cancer clinical audit databases

The post holder will need to work as part of the wider cancer team, in particular with MDT leads, their medical secretaries and the Cancer Nurse Specialists, Cancer Navigators and Advanced Specialist Practitioners. This will also include attending and participating in PTL meetings.