Radiology Cancer Navigator - Slough, United Kingdom - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Slough, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Cancer Navigator to join our busy Radiology department to support the fast and pro-active delivery of timely diagnostics for all patients referred with suspected cancer.

This will be a demanding but fulfilling role, requiring excellent communication skills with internal and external stakeholders and providing an excellent patient experience to all of our patients touching this pathway.

The post holder will be responsible for setting up and maintaining clear pathways for each cancer area and modality to ensure the best pathways.

This role is to specifically turnaround patients on the day - ideally ensuring their diagnostic takes place on the day of clinic appointment, and where not possible that they are given their appointment (and it is agreed with the patient) on the day of their clinic appointment.

The post will require detailed liaison with the Trust Cancer Team, Speciality Cancer Teams, and internal Radiology team members as well as a high amount of daily contact with patients.

The post holder will also need to provide management with reports on performance of the cancer targets and highlight any thematic issues in pathways with suggestions of solutions.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our threecore values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

KEY TASKS & Responsibilities:

Improve cancer waiting time performance
Delivery of optimal timed pathways
Support the achievement of Trust cancer plan
Work closely with the Trust Cancer team to develop effective, crossorganisational working
Improve patient pathway with earlier diagnosis and intervention through personalized care
Optimal use of Radiology equipment
To set up clear pathways for each cancer area within the Radiology setting
To issue guidance and supervision to all admin staff regarding the scheduling and imaging of all TWR patients
To ensure that office procedures for cancer pathways flow constantly
Work closely with Support Services lead to ensure smooth running of the entire booking team
To liaise with the Support Services Lead about any problems within the pathways to ensure that appropriate actions are taken.
To assist the Support Services Lead with the provision of statistics for appointment waiting list times
To provide guidance to any members of hospital staff who require it
To actively participate and drive forward new processes and workflows

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information