Targeted Lung Health Check Care Navigator & Tobacco Dependency Advisor
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Job summary
Fancy a change? Interested in diversifying your skills to boost your CV? Oxfordshire Targeted Lung Health Check is a new OUH provided service. Nurse-led and community based it is an ideal opportunity to join a friendly and innovative team keen to support training and development.
Targeted Lung Health Check services save lives and improve the health of our local populations through early identification of cancer and promoting smoking cessation. The Care Navigator makes the initial phone contact with eligible asymptomatic participants between the ages of 55 to 74 with a smoking history. During this call the Care Navigator will utilise specialist software to assess the participant's risk of lung cancer. If eligible, they will then attend our mobile CT unit for a more detailed lung health check with one of our nurses. Your role will be to support participants to start their Lung Health check journey.
Main duties of the job
The primary purpose of the Total Lung Health Check Programme is to enable the early detection of lung cancer to save lives.
You will be part of a small team undertaking a varied role dependant on service needs. Key aspects of the role are administration and performing telephone risk assessments. We aim to contact about 120 people every day . Training will be provided but it is important that you feel comfortable acquiring new IT skills. You will initially be based at OUH Cowley (Unipart House) but once trained there will be opportunities for more flexible hybrid working if preferred. We hope to expand the TLHC service to provide smoking cessation support to participants and this role will be crucial to the delivery of this.
For more details visit our website
Targeted Lung Health Check (TLHC) - Oxford University Hospitals (ouh.nhs.uk)
An informal visit or chat about the role is actively encouraged (dee.rawlings@ouh.nhs.uk)
Due to the nature of the service, a full UK licence is required.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Details
Date posted
29 November 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£26,530 to £29,114 a year Per annum pro rata
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
Reference number
321-CSS-6718860-B4-1
Job locations
Unipart House
Garsington Rd
Oxford
OX4 6LX
Employer details
Employer name
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Unipart House
Garsington Rd
Oxford
OX4 6LX
Employer's website
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