260962 (AP) Lung Navigator

NHS Lothian; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Lothian is seeking a dedicated coordinator to support individuals with cancer, acting as a consistent point of contact for patients and specialist teams. You will help manage cancer pathways and ensure information flow across hospital departments, reducing anxiety and improving efficiency.

In collaboration with the Clinical Team, you will coordinate access to information and education resources, empowering patients and carers throughout complex pathways.

Qualifications

• Post holder acts as a consistent point of contact for patients and specialist teams to manage cancer pathways.
• Provides essential coordination between hospital departments to keep patients informed, reduce anxiety and improve pathway efficiency.
• Aims to meet waiting time targets and escalate when required.
• With Clinical Team, coordinates access to information and education resources for patients throughout complex cancer pathways.
• Develops a partnership approach to empower patients and carers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a single point of contact for patients and clinical teams to manage cancer pathways.
• Coordinate access to information and education resources for patients and carers.
• Support achievement of waiting time targets within cancer pathways.
• Promote partnership approaches to empower patients and carers.

Skills

Coordination

Patient liaison

Communication

Empathy

Job description

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
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Fixed Term - 1 year
This role supports individuals with potential or diagnosed cancer.
The post holder will be an identified and consistent point of contact for patients and speciality teams to manage patient cancer pathways.
To provide essential coordination between hospital departments/services to ensure patients are kept informed to reduce anxiety and ensure efficiency within the cancer pathway. To ensure waiting time targets are achieved and to escape where required.
In conjunction with the Clinical Team, coordinate access to the right information and education resources to support patients throughout the complex cancer pathways.
Develop a partnership approach to working to empower the patient and carers.
To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. Further information on what NHS Scotland Boards are required to do to check this as well as what your responsibilities include can be found in the further information for this vacancy.
We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.