Rm-131041-macmillan Navigator Project Lead - Aberdeen, United Kingdom - NHS Scotland

NHS Scotland

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Aberdeen, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 2 year full-time secondment as a band 6 Macmillan Project Lead to continue developing and managing a telephone triage project, based within NHS Grampian, funded by Macmillan Cancer Support.

Cancer patients experience a variety of complex problems over the course of their illness.

Shorter hospital stays and fewer inpatient beds have created additional challenges for patients diagnosed with cancer, as they often continue complicated treatment protocols as outpatients.

As a result, patients and their families often telephone for expert and timely advice and care, preventing unnecessary admission to hospital and providing family support.

This 2 year secondment will focus on the management of a team of Macmillan Navigators and Single point of contact Navigators who provide a telephone triage system for patients and their families to access, to enable their calls to be signposted and answered appropriately by a team of specially trained support workers.

The successful applicant will work with a team of support workers to drive the redesign of services to meet the movement of activity and develop new ways of working to ensure that the best patient care is delivered.

We are seeking a highly motivated, flexible and enthusiastic nurse with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who will possess a strong sense of urgency, and flexibility, and thrive in a challenging environment.

Fundamental to the Macmillan Navigator Project is the need to work in partnership with people affected by cancer and across organisational departments and boundaries, with Macmillan Cancer Support, primary and community care, social care and the voluntary sector.

If you are excited about this post we would like to hear from you.

For further information please contact Jinette Mathieson, Macmillan Cancer Nurse Consultant on or Carol Reid, CNS Team Leader on