Cancer Navigator (Urology Pathway)

NHS; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Cancer Navigator (Urology Pathway) to enhance patient access to cancer services. The role involves close collaboration with primary and secondary care, acting as a patient advocate, and ensuring timely diagnostic processes. Candidates should have experience in the NHS and strong analytical and interpersonal skills. This is a fixed-term position until March 2026.

Benefits

Leadership and Improvement Training

Qualifications

• Experience of working in the NHS.
• Experience of delivering training.
• Ability to work autonomously with high initiative.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across care sectors to improve patient access to cancer services.
• Act as a point of access for new cancer notifications.
• Ensure timely appointments and necessary tests for patients.

Skills

Data analysis

Interpersonal skills

Numerical skills

Statistical skills

Education

Degree level education or equivalent experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Hospital clinical systems

Job description

Cancer Navigator (Urology Pathway)

The closing date is 10 October 2025

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.

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualification

• Educated to degree level, working towards a degree or equivalent experience

Experience

• Experience of working in the NHS Significant experience of using PCs, PC software and major corporate clinical systems.
• Demonstrable experience of working to tight deadlines to deliver results.
• Work to a high standard of data quality.
• Experience of working with low levels of supervision and high levels of initiative. Possess strong numerical and statistical skills.
• Be able to articulate cancer waiting times data requirements and have an ability to translate guidance into practice.
• Possess strong numerical and statistical skills.
• Possess the ability to work autonomously, taking responsibility for own area of work and planning working day.
• Experience of delivering training

Knowledge

• Application software e.g. Windows 2000/XP Microsoft Office, Outlook 2000
• Familiarity with hospital systems and data collection processes
• Good understanding of access targets (existing and new) and related national waiting times guidance
• Ability to learn new software systems
• Ability to analyse training needs and develop training courses and associated resources
• Typing and keyboard skills
• Ability to investigate, analyse and diagnose complex information or information system problems
• Ability to prepare and deliver presentations on complex or sensitive matters to a wide audience.
• Ability to prepare data reports as required by clinical teams or Cancer and Access Performance Manager.
• Ability to deliver presentations on complex or sensitive matters to a wider audience.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust