Cancer Pathway Navigator

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
An exciting and unique opportunity has arisen to join the Cancer Services team in a innovative position of Cancer Pathway Navigator within The Northern Care Alliance NHS Group.

The Pathway Navigator will be pivotal in supporting early diagnostic pathways for patients with a suspected cancer to achieve a definitive diagnosis by day 28 following referral by the GP. The navigator will be involved from the beginning of the pathway to work both directly and indirectly with both patients and their carers to assist in coordinating the patient pathway. The role of the navigator will be to improve both patient compliance and the patient experience.

**Main duties of the job**:
We require a Pathway Navigator. Currently cancer services are working remotely, but this situation may change and you may be expected to work across all sites if necessary.

We are seeking motivated, enthusiastic individuals to support Cancer Pathways across NCA.

We require dynamic flexible individuals with advanced IT, administrative and organisational skills. The post holders will be required to have excellent communication skills and an ability to deal with complex situations with service users and clinicians over the phone and in person.

An ability to work autonomously and to respond quickly to requests is required in addition to the ability to use your own initiative.

**Working for our organisation**:
**Oldham Care Organisation**

Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world’s first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital. As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- 5 GCSEs at Grade C or above including Maths and English or equivalent
- ECDL or equivalent demonstrable skills
- NVQ2/3 in Health or Social Care or equivalent experience

**Desirable criteria**:

- Basic Communication Skills Training (e.g. Sage/Thyme)

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Experience of working in a health care setting for a minimum of two years
- Experience of working as part of a team and in isolation
- Experience of managing priorities under pressure, to meet service needs and strict deadlines

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience co-ordinating a patient workload

**Knowledge and Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Computer literate with good knowledge and understanding of computer packages; e.g. Microsoft Office
- Knowledge and experience of using Pennine Acute Trust’s IT systems; eg PAS, CRIS, SCR etc
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Good organisational and administrative skills with ability to prioritize workload
- Ability to communicate at all levels and in difficult circumstances
- Ability to use own initiative
- Ability to work well under pressure and remain calm in difficult situations
- Ability to retrieve information from a wide range of sources and in different formats

**Desirable criteria**:

- Knowledge of relevant cancer treatments, interventions and terminology

**Personal Qualities**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Ability to work flexibly
- Sensitive nature and pleasant manner
- Ability to work with distressing information
- A commitment to quality and safety
- A commitment to collaborative working to create best outcomes
- Willingness to undertake further training/study as required
- Enthusiastic and hard working

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