Cancer Navigator (Urology Pathway)

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Tees Valley is looking for a candidate to join their performance team aligned to Urology specialty. You will support clinicians and patients through the patient journey, ensuring access to cancer services. Responsibilities include collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and acting as a patient advocate. Training in leadership and improvement is essential for this role.

Benefits

Leadership and improvement training

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively across primary and secondary care.
• Liaise with patients and secure timely appointments.
• Act as patient advocate and facilitator to overcome barriers.

Job description

Overview

Exciting opportunity to join the performance team on a fixed term basis until 31st March 2026. This particular post will be aligned to Urology specialty.

The post has been recently created to support the trust in providing an effective, caring and compassionate service to patients to optimise their access to cancer services.

It is expected that this role will work to support the clinician and patients through the patients journey, supporting a streamlined diagnostic and treatment if required.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will work collaboratively across primary and secondary care and third sector organisations with responsibility to provide an effective, caring and compassionate service to patients to optimise their access to cancer services, through close working with multidisciplinary teams in primary and secondary care.


• They will be point of access to receive and act upon notification of any new, suspicious, or recurrent cancers identified at the diagnostic stage.


• They will liaise with patients and their relatives and ensure appropriate and timely appointments are secured and any additional tests are organised prior to their imaging via their GP or within the Trust.


• They will ensure close collaboration within the specialty to ensure imaging is booked, reports are available, and staging is complete.


• They will act as patient advocate and facilitator to overcome barriers to timely access to cancer services, utilising interpersonal skills and resources across the health service, third sector and local authorities.


• This post may close at sufficient applicants.

About us

Leadership and Improvement Training

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to

• Explore leadership within the NHS


• Promote Trust Values and Behaviours


• Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills


• Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.