Haematology Cancer Care Co-ordinator - Band 4

Job summary

This substantive post provides an exciting opportunity to join our Haematology cancer team and make a real difference to cancer patients and their families.

We are looking for a highly motivated, organised and compassionateperson to join our busy, fast paced Lincoln, Boston and Grantham Haematology cancer team. You will support all patients throughout their pathway following a diagnosis of cancer.

You will have experience of working in a patient or public facing role and an insight into cancer or long term health conditions.

Main duties of the job

The NHS long term plan is for all patients diagnosed with a cancer to have access to personalised care. This includes holistic needs assessment. The role will involve working closely with the Haematology clinical nurse specialists to provide:

• Administrative and IT support, working competently with a number of hospital IT systems
• Accurate record keeping and collation of data
• Frequent dealings with patients and health care professionals, by telephone and face -to -face contacts.
• Completion of holistic needs assessments and care -plans throughout the cancer pathway
• Referrals to appropriate sources of support
• Communicating confidently with all members of the MDT
• Supporting the the Haematology cancer nurse specialists to deliver individualised care.

About us

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.