Cancer Patient Navigator - Surgery

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 31,000; Part time

Job summary

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Cancer Patient Navigator (Surgery) to support the patient journey at Broomfield Hospital with cross-cover across cancer sub-specialties. The role is based primarily at one site with shared responsibilities across tumor sites.

You will capture patient information, keep records up to date, and work with cancer business partners to transform current processes.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of specialist clinical and cancer terms.
• Administrative experience in a healthcare setting.
• Experience using hospital administration systems.
• Understanding of cancer waiting times (31 & 62 day targets).
• Proficiency in MS Office.
• Experience with data entry.
• Understanding purpose of PTLs.

Responsibilities

• Capture information about patients and update records.
• Coordinate patient pathways and liaise with clinical teams.
• Provide cross-site support across tumour site teams.
• Support cancer business partners to streamline processes.

Skills

Clinical terms knowledge

Healthcare administration

Hospital systems

Cancer wait times targets

MS Office

Data entry

PTLs understanding

Education

GCSEs or equivalent

Cancer waiting time knowledge

Job description

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Cancer Patient Navigator - Surgery

The closing date is 12 November 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join our team as a Cancer Patient Navigator.

The role of the cancer patient navigator is to provide specialist knowledge for the pathway of cancer patients across Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust. The role will facilitate the smooth running of the patient journey by ensuring that the pathway is coordinated, streamlined and all processes revolve around the patient and their individual needs.

The role will have a primary base at Broomfield hospital and will provide cross-cover within the tumor site teams to ensure a consistent and effective support for all cancer sub specialties is maintained at all times.

Main duties of the job

If successful you will work directly and indirectly with patients and their carers, and be responsible for capturing information about patients, ensuring up-to-date relevant information is recorded on the patient record and Trust systems.

You will have a good knowledge and understanding of patient complete pathways. As a key requirement of this role, the post holder will have excellent communication and organisational skills, together with a high attention to detail and levels of accuracy.

The role will support and work within the clinical nurse teams to support whilst directly reporting to the cancer business partners in order to transform the current processes.

The role will have a primary base at one of the three hospitals and will provide cross-cover within the tumour site teams to ensure a consistent and effective support for all cancer sub specialities is maintained at all times

About us

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust

Job responsibilities

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.

Unfortunately, there is no Visa Sponsorship available for this role. Whilst we are able to employ candidates on a graduate Visa, we are unable to offer sponsorship once the graduate visa expires. for some roles i.e. roles for band 2 to 4, inclusive.

Knowledge & Experience

• Knowledge of specialist functional and medical terms demonstrated in supporting information
• Previous administrative experience within a healthcare setting
• Experience of applying hospital administration systems
• Knowledge and understanding of key access targets i.e. 31 day and 62 day cancer demonstrated in supporting information
• High level of proficiency in MS Office
• Previous experience working with data input
• Understanding purpose of PTL's demonstrated through work history or supporting information

Qualifications

• Good level of education e.g. 5 GCSE or equivalent
• Cancer Waiting Time Knowledge demonstrated work history and/or supporting information

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

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£28,392 a yearPer Annum (Pro Rata) for Part Time