Cancer Care Navigator - Colchester, United Kingdom - East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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Colchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Macmillan Cancer Care Navigator

An exciting opportunity has arisen to become a Macmillan Cancer Care Navigator for ESNEFT based at Ipswich Hospital with travel to local community settings

Would you like to work in a supportive team environment, where you can make a real difference to cancer patients and their families?

This is a fixed term position until 31st March 2025.


We are looking for someone who has good listening skills, enjoy helping others and ideally already has a good knowledge and experience of the NHS.


You will have excellent communication skills and be confident in supporting patients diagnosed with cancer both emotionally and practically, ensuring they get personalised care and the information and support they need.


You will develop good working relationships, with secondary care colleagues and community colleagues by visiting GP practices, facilitating health and wellbeing events and attending cancer service user groups and support groups.

The Cancer Care Navigator will record confidential information by completing databases, templates and NHS IT systems

An important part of this role is to be the patient's link between primary care and secondary care.


Co-ordinate care with the person living with cancer so that they access the right help at the right time, providing a seamless experience of care.

Checking that the person is able to self
- manage and provides a flexible and personalised response to any changes needed.

Help people living with cancer to access referrals and/or signposting to local supportive services.


Throughout the persons journey from diagnosis, to living with and beyond cancer direct the person and family to relevant support and information resources.

Provide regular supported conversations with people living with cancer and offer personalised emotional and practical support.

Create good working relationships with GP Practices and other community colleagues


One of the largest Trust's in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area.

We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.


Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.

Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone.

Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.


To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship.

All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.


If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
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