Cancer Care Co-ordinator - Lung Pathway

The role will involve coordinating care from referral to treatment. You will have regular contact with patients, families, and carers to support and signpost to ensure effective progress along care pathways, in liaison with other colleagues and departments in the hospital and the community. The role will involve supporting high quality personalised care including:

• Carrying out holistic needs assessments and care plans
• Preparing treatment summaries
• Offering health and wellbeing advice and support
• Follow up for patients following completion of treatment
You will be expected to attend the multi-disciplinary team meetings with the wider multi-disciplinary teams to transcribe MDT outcomes live/complete the MDT outcomes using NHS IT recording systems.

We are looking for enthusiastic individuals with good interpersonal skills and a passion to deliver a high standard of care to patients affected by cancer. You will be working alongside established teams of clinicians, specialist nurses, allied health professionals, and MDT and cancer care co-ordinators to provide care for patients. You will be expected to work at both of our acute hospital sites in Middlesbrough and Northallerton as required and be adaptable & flexible in your approach., We are inviting applications from highly motivated individuals with excellent communication and keyboard skills. You should haveNHS experience and be passionate about cancer care. In return we offer the right candidates the opportunity for further training and development. If you think you have the right skills, are confident, organised and can prioritise and plan your own work efficiently and effectively in a busy environment, we welcome your application.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the New and Aspiring leaders programme, and the Foundation Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. After you complete this one and a half day of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7