Cancer Pathway Navigator Colorectal/Urology
The closing date is 24 July 2025
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a confident, enthusiastic, and motivated individual to work within Clinical Oncology at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, in close collaboration secondary care organizations. Your primary responsibilities will be to act as patient advocate to overcome barriers to timely access to any part of the patient's cancer journey, hence minimizing any delays to treatment. You will directly communicate with patients and their families to organize appointments, advise on any concerns or queries and signpost the patient to relevant and applicable support. This may involve liaising local DGH's Macmillan and other support services, as well as members of the lung MDT and other tertiary treating centres. Your role is vital to streamline the patient journey and contribute to the improvement of both quality and experience.
It is essential to ensure close working relationships with medical, nursing, and allied health professionals for the Trusts lung multidisciplinary team. You will work autonomously and have strong communication and negotiation skills as well as commitment and compassion for patients and their quality of care and experience. You will be competent in data collation and input, with excellent IT skills across a broad range of systems which will include an element of data manipulation and analyzing.
Main duties of the job
The purpose of this role is to support the speciality Cancer team in implementing early treatment pathways for patients with a diagnosed cancer to achieve definitive treatment by day 62. The Navigator role will be involved from the receipt of the referral to the first definitive treatment.
The post holder will be expected to work across a range of IT systems to coordinate the booking of patient appointments. They will work both directly and indirectly with both patients and their carers to assist in coordinating the care of patients through their hospital care journey, to identify and manage any issues that patients may have with transport, lack of understanding about further investigations or preparations for treatment and to reduce the number of appointments that are missed by patients. It will be part of the Navigator role to help improve both patient compliance and experience.
About us
The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
Details
Date posted
10 July 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum, pro rota
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
413-96255-CNS-AK
Job locations
Clinical Oncology Admin Support - E00093
Manchester
M20 4BX
Employer details
Employer name
The Christie NHS FT
Address
Clinical Oncology Admin Support - E00093
Manchester
M20 4BX