Macmillan Cancer Care Navigator

4 days ago


West Bromwich, United Kingdom Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust Full time

Are you passionate about improving the experience of cancer patients and their carers? Are you excited and motivated by the personalised care agenda, and ensuring patients have access to the right support, at the right time, in the right way?

Then this pioneering Macmillan Cancer Care Navigator role is for you.

We are seeking exceptional personnel to join us in delivering best practice personalised care and support interventions to cancer patients and their families as part of our Living with and Beyond Cancer Program here at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital NHS Trust. You will be joining a new team of Cancer Care Navigators helping patients to manage the practical and emotional impact of cancer, who will drive forward the role to ensure it is fully embedded and integrated into our cancer pathways. You will be

Working closely with Cancer Services and our Cancer Nurse Specialist Team’s (CNS) you will be a source of contact for cancer patients and their families, helping them to navigate through their cancer pathway, from diagnosis and into follow-up; providing reassurance, telephone patient triaging and support, along-side patient-related information giving and signposting.

You will be required to assist the CNS teams in the smooth running of their living with and beyond cancer services which will include undertaking administrative duties relating to nurse-led clinics, MDT Outcomes and the tracking of patients’ on remote surveillance. You will also be responsible for delivering Holistic Needs Assessments and Care Planning telephone clinics supporting patients in the resolution of non-complex needs and concerns.

You will have excellent communication skills and be confident in dealing with patients both on the phone and face to face; whilst being aware of the limitations and boundaries of your expertise level and role. These key skills need to come hand in hand with demonstrable evidence of IT and office administration skills, along with experience of information patients systems.

This job offers a great opportunity to be in a role vital to the personalised care and support agenda. With a can-do attitude, resilience and commitment to best patient care you are enthusiastic, self-motivated and have a passion for putting your patients’ needs first.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens next year and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

**We have three newly emerging strategic objectives**:
1. Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
2. Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
3. Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details on what this role entails.



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