Non Specific Symptoms Fds Pathway Navigator - Maidstone, United Kingdom - Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
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Maidstone, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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The Faster Diagnosis Service is looking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our team as a Non Specific Symptoms Pathway Navigator.


You will be expected to be highly experienced within the hospital setting with knowledge and evidence of specialised terminology and patient pathways.

Educated to a level required to perform the role or equivalent experience, you will actively support and contribute to the requirements of the service and ensure compliance with performance targets and quality standards required at a local and national level.

Good collaborative working is imperative to the success of this project & new service initiative. You will also have the opportunity to develop within the role and actively participate in service improvement planning.


Patients entering the NSS pathway generally do not yet have a cancer diagnosis but a suspicion of cancer due to a combination of non-specific symptoms.

As with other trusts nationally MTW currently do not have an established effective referral pathway.

As a result, these patients often go back and forth between primary and secondary care which can lead to delays in diagnosis, higher rates of late stage and/or emergency presentation and poorer outcomes for the patient.

MTW (along with the Kent and Medway Cancer Alliance) is moving forward to develop a new Non Specific Symptom Service to improve outcomes and experiences **.

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