Job summary
Are you passionate about ensuring patients with cancer receive the best possible care and treatment?
If so this may be an exciting opportunity for you to work as part of our team who specialise in supporting patients with Breast cancer.
The Cancer Care Coordinator plays a key role supporting patients and coordinating care throughout their cancer diagnosis and treatment pathways.
Please note, this is a fixed term or secondment post for 12 months
Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone enthusiastic and proactive to coordinate a busy service with large numbers of patients with varying care needs.
You will work closely with a small team of Clinical Nurse Specialists to support patients with a diagnosis of breast cancer.
Previous experience or ability in effective coordination and managing complex patient care are essential, and compassion and empathy are pivotal to this role.
You will need excellent communication skills with experience of working in a health care setting.
Please see the detailed job description and main responsibilities for further details.
About us
The Breast Cancer Nurse Specialist service works within cancer services at Harrogate District Hospital and provide outstanding care to patients.
Services benefit hugely from access to the Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre and linked cancer support services.
The Trust is committed to core values of Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality and to supporting and developing all staff within a safe, inclusive culture.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role entails:
Triaging patient enquiries and providing follow up support to patients to ensure their care and recovery is taking place as planned.
Undertaking patient holistic needs assessments, and implementing responses in line with agreed pathways.
Providing administrative support to the Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist team, ensuring activity is collated, patient pathways are tracked, supporting patient education programmes, collating patient experience and supporting audit. As such you should be able to demonstrate excellent IT literacy organisational and service management skills.
Meeting deadlines and targets with a flexible and adaptable approach to work.
Working closely with staff across the hospital and other service providers. You will need to have a professional manner and an excellent standard of communication. Attention to detail and the ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team is essential.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role entails:
Triaging patient enquiries and providing follow up support to patients to ensure their care and recovery is taking place as planned.
Undertaking patient holistic needs assessments, and implementing responses in line with agreed pathways.
Providing administrative support to the Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist team, ensuring activity is collated, patient pathways are tracked, supporting patient education programmes, collating patient experience and supporting audit. As such you should be able to demonstrate excellent IT literacy organisational and service management skills.
Meeting deadlines and targets with a flexible and adaptable approach to work.
Working closely with staff across the hospital and other service providers. You will need to have a professional manner and an excellent standard of communication. Attention to detail and the ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team is essential.
Person Specification
Requirements
Essential
- 5 GCSE's including Maths and English at grade C or equivalent
- Educated to NVQ level 4 in related area, Foundation degree, Higher National Diploma or equivalent experience
- ECDL or equivalent
- Significant experience of working with patients who have cancer or within a relevant administrative or clinical setting
- Experience of working with multi -Professional teams
- Insight of cancer pathways and impact upon patient/carers
Desirable
- Basic communication skills training (eg. Sage/ Thyme)
- Experience of telephone triage and patient contact.
- Administration support for a clinical team.
Person Specification
Requirements
Essential
- 5 GCSE's including Maths and English at grade C or equivalent
- Educated to NVQ level 4 in related area, Foundation degree, Higher National Diploma or equivalent experience
- ECDL or equivalent
- Significant experience of working with patients who have cancer or within a relevant administrative or clinical setting
- Experience of working with multi -Professional teams
- Insight of cancer pathways and impact upon patient/carers
Desirable
- Basic communication skills training (eg. Sage/ Thyme)
- Experience of telephone triage and patient contact.
- Administration support for a clinical team.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
