Cancer Tracker Skin Oncology / Dermatology

Job summary

An Exciting opportunity has arisen for a Cancer Tracker within the Dermatology Service. The aim of the Cancer Tracker role is to help support and navigate patients, their families and carers through a skin cancer pathway.

The service's prime aim is to be patient-focused and proactive in seeing that the patient receives the very best cancer pathway experience with continual communication and support in a timely manner.

You will be involved throughout the patient journey from referral to follow up within the hospital setting, working directly and indirectly with patients and their carers, assisting the clinical team in coordinating the patient pathway. You will be expected to assist with Multidisciplinary Meetings and ensuring documentation is clear, accurate and up to date.

The role requires someone with exceptional organisational skills who can demonstrate great communication and interpersonal skills.

A caring and sensitive attitude is essential as you will be dealing with patients, their families and carers. You will have excellent listening skills and be able to deal with people both internally and externally in a sensitive and professional manner and be confident using patient administration systems and database packages.

The post holder will be expected to work independently and 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.

Main duties of the job

The post will focus primarily on working collaboratively with the clinical team supporting the diagnostic pathway to ensure patients are supported through their cancer diagnostic pathway in a seamless and safe manner.

Provide explanations of procedure and processes to patients and their family regarding the pathway, verbally and by sending out relevant trust leaflets and instruction packs where appropriate.

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Employer's website

https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Employer's website

https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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