Patient Cancer Care Co-ordinator

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a patient cancer care coordinator to join the Urology Co-ordinator team. We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and caring individual to work closely with the operational team to co-ordinate patients care through all aspects of their cancer pathway and support the development of multiple cancer patient pathways. This is a unique and interesting administrative role in which you will navigate patients through their pathway from referral to treatment in accordance with the Trust agreed pathway steps and timescales, proactively identifying and resolving delays at all stages and you will be required to provide accurate data and information to support this.,

• The role has been developed to assist the Urology team in delivering high quality care by supporting both the individual services to resolve any issues within the system and move patients through their cancer pathway.
• The post holder will need to collaborate and communicate with wider health care teams to ensure the provision of appropriate services, improving the quality and efficiency of the cancer pathway, cancer waiting times and targets.
• This will involve assisting coordination of care from referral to the end of treatment episode. Involving regular contact with patients diagnosed with cancer. Ensuring effective progression along the the patients pathway in liaison with other health care professionals, departments in the Trust and other hospitals.
  
  An understanding of cancer waiting times, standards and the associated targets would be advantageous. You must have excellent IT, communication and interpersonal skills. We would expect the candidate to have the ability to prioritise and organise work with minimal assistance.
  
  We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.