Cancer Navigator- Band 4

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Annual Leave: 27–33 days

Job summary

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in Lincolnshire is seeking a Cancer Navigator (Band 4) to coordinate cancer pathways, appointments and investigations across sites including Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital. The role focuses on safeguarding timely cancer care and working within a multi-disciplinary team.

You will support patients, prioritise tasks, and ensure high-quality, person-centered care while adhering to NHS standards and waiting times targets.

Qualifications

• English and Maths GCSE grade C or equivalent.
• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent with diploma-level training.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work independently.
• Proficient with Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel; self-motivated.

Responsibilities

• Navigate and track patients along their pathway; coordinate hospital appointments and investigations.
• Identify patients who may breach waiting times targets and take positive action.
• Work across divisions to deliver cancer services; provide high quality person-centred care.
• Engage with senior medical staff, nursing staff and partner organisations.

Skills

Good interpersonal skills

Experience of multi professional work

Ability to work independently

Self-motivated

Uses own initiative

Motivated and resourceful

Education

English & Maths GCSE Grade C or equivalent

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

Good interpersonal skills

Tools

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

ULHT in-house computer systems

Job description

Employer United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Lincoln County Hospital or Pilgrim Hospital Town Lincoln Salary £28,392 - £31,157 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 03/11/2026 23:59

Cancer Navigator- Band 4

NHS AfC: Band 4

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:

• Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.
• Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.
• Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.

Our Group Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Caring and building a healthier future for all” – stating their ambition for our Trust and the wider group to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

So,what is in it for you?

• Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.

Types of flexibility could include:

• Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
• Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
• Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
• Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
• Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
• NHS Pension:A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
• Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
• Bank working:The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.

In addition, there ismore.

• Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
• Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
• Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
• Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
• Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Job overview

The Cancer Navigator post will play a pivotal role in navigating and tracking patients along their pathway, co-ordinating all hospital appointments, investigations and their treatment, whilst also identifying patients who may potentially breach national waiting times targets and Cancer Standards taking appropriate positive action to negate this possibility.

The post holder will work effectively across the division of Medical Specialties involved in the delivery of cancer services by providing high quality person centred care to patients whom are on a cancer pathway.

Previous Applicants need not apply

Main duties of the job

This post will be based at Lincoln County Hospital.

The Cancer Navigator post will play a pivotal role in navigating and tracking patients along their pathway, co-ordinating all hospital appointments, investigations and their treatment, whilst also identifying patients who may potentially breach national waiting times targets and Cancer Standards taking appropriate positive action to negate this possibility.

The post holder will work effectively across the division and CBU’s involved in the delivery of cancer services by providing high quality person centred care to patients whom are on a cancer pathway. The post holder will engage with and work alongside the senior medical staff, nursing staff, other health care professionals and partner organisations within the network across the patient journey

The successful candidate will also have the following skills:-

• Be able to analyse problems and suggest suitable solutions
• Be able to prioritise tasks, work to deadlines and manage own time
• Good interpersonal skills
• Effective negotiation and influencing skills
• Have the ability to maintain confidentiality at all times
• Be able to work effectively in a team
• Adaptable to change
• Knowledge of all cancer waiting times targets
• Competent in use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook

Working for our organisation

Pilgrim Hospital is situated beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

What should you do next?

Person specification

• Experience of multi professional working
• Experience using IT systems
• Previous NHS experience
• Able to demonstrate “evidence” of working within the multi-disciplinary team
• Previous cancer pathway experience
• Previous acute hospital experience

Qualifications

• English & Maths GCSE Grade C and above or equivalent
• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent level of demonstrable experience, plus additional short courses or training to diploma level or equivalent
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently
• Self-motivated
• Uses own initiative
• Competent in use of Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel
• Motivated and resourceful
• Experience with ULHT ‘in house’ computer systems.. i.e. Somerset, Medway, Cris, Web v

Knowledge

• Knowledge of all Cancer Waiting Times Targets

Personal Qualities

• Ability to work in line with and role model Group values.

Specific Requirements

• Flexibility attitude and approach to work
• Ability to deal with emotional situations
• Ability to prioritise and work under pressure
• Ability to travel independently to enable work anywhere within ULHT area when required
• Demonstrates a person centred approach to care
• Physically able to access and function in a variety of locations
• Professional appearance
• Good understanding of the national drivers for cancer within the NHS

ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.

We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community. On the application form please tick “Member of the Armed Forces Community” if the below applies to you.

You are:

• A Veteran
• A Military Reserve
• Partner/Spouse of those Serving NB: partners/spouses are only eligible whilst their partner is serving in the Armed Forces

All new employees will be subject to a charge for the DBS check that is required for the post. The Disclosure & Barring Service application form (formerly CRB) will be provided by ULTH and the fee will be deducted from your salary over a 3 month period.

Candidates are advised to read the attached guidance on using AI technology. When you complete your application, you are required to declare that the information in your application form is true and complete.

Please note, for applicants with previous NHS service: If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement.

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