Lead Lung Nodule Service Navigator (Nurse/Radiographer)

Oxford University Hospitals; Oxford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Churchill Radiology Department, is seeking a full-time Nurse or Radiographer to join the Lung Nodule Service at Churchill Hospital. You will work within Radiology and Respiratory Medicine to develop an electronic patient database and participate in the first read of CT scans, including nodule volumetry, under senior clinician guidance.

You will be part of a MDT, inform patients of CT results and ongoing management, flag concerning nodules, and ensure rapid

Qualifications

• Role requires registration in nursing or radiography and working within an MDT Lung Nodule Service.
• Experience with CT CT-nodule assessment is desirable but not compulsory.
• Excellent communication with patients and team members is essential.

Responsibilities

• Be the point of contact for patients referred to the lung nodule service.
• Maintain and manage the follow-up database and organize referrals and follow-ups.
• Contribute to patient care by communicating results and management plans, in coordination with chest physicians and radiologists.

Skills

Nurse

Radiographer

Job description

Job overview

OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL NHS TRUST
RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT
CHURCHILL HOPSITAL

We are seeking a full time Nurse or Radiographer to work as a Lung Nodule Navigator, to work at the Churchill Hospital Radiology Department, as part of a wider MDT team delivering the Lung nodule Service.

This is an exciting post, where radiographers and nurses will work closely with the thoracic radiologists and lung cancer physicians, to develop and manage an electronic patient database and learn to provide the first read of the CT scans, including nodule volumetry, which is the recommended standard for reporting CT scans. The successful candidate will contribute to a nodule MDT, and will be involved in informing patients of their CT results and the ongoing management plan. They will flag growing nodules, other significant pathology and patients with new symptoms or signs, allowing rapid assessment of patients by the chest physicians where appropriate. They will have administrative support in the form of a Band assistant.

Main duties of the job

The role will, work as part of the Pulmonary Nodule Navigation Team within Radiology and Respiratory Medicine, carrying out specific responsibilities commensurate with the grade.

To be the point of contact for patients referred to the lung nodule service.

To manage the follow-up database of patients and ensure that new referrals and follow-ups are organised and managed in a timely manner.

To contribute to a working environment in which patients can obtain optimum care

To work within a multidisciplinary team within the radiology and respiratory teams

The triage of new referrals.

Making a management plan based on guidelines or after discussion with a senior clinician.

Communicate and arrange follow-up for the patient via letter or telephone call.

Ensuring appropriate handover to the Respiratory Early Diagnostics Service if the patient is suspected of having an early lung cancer- again done with clinician support.

Working for our organisation

Churchill Radiology Department:

The radiology Department is within the Cancer and Haematology Centre, opened in . Primarily, we provide imaging services across the specialities found on site: Oncology, Radiotherapy, Breast, Renal, Urology, Transplantation, Chest Medicine, upper and lower GI, Head and Neck, Haematology and Infectious Diseases.

We have CT scanners, one slice GE CT scanner and one Slice GE CT Scanner with a rd CT scanner currently being installed. We cover all types of scanning in CT this includes cardiac, pneumocolons, orthopaedic and all various CT guided interventional procedures including microwave ablations.

The Churchill Radiology department also has a bed Day Case Unit which supports interventional imaging across the department, including the admission, recovery and discharge of patients undergoing a variety of diagnostic and treatment procedures.

The department also includes GE MRI Scanners, a and T, flat plate interventional rooms, PET/CT scanners, Gamma Camera’s including SPECT CT, ultrasound rooms, a Lithotripsy unit and DR GE Definium rooms.

Other specialist techniques include Hyperpolarised Xenon Imaging, High Intensity Focussed Ultrasound and SIRTS.

Opportunities are available for personal and professional development and commitment to an out of hours and weekend service is required.