Cancer Care Navigator

Are you passionate about improving the experience of cancer patients and their carers? Are you excited and motivated by the personalised care agenda, and ensuring patients having access to the right support, at the right time, in the right way?

Then this pioneering Macmillan Cancer Care Navigator role is for you.

We are seeking exceptional personnel to join us in delivering best practice personalised care and support interventions to cancer patients and their families as part of our Living with and Beyond Cancer Program here at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital NHS Trust. You will be joining a new team of Cancer Care Navigators helping patients to manage the practical and emotional impact of cancer, who will drive forward the role to ensure it is fully embedded and integrated into our cancer pathways. You will also work with the wider LWBC team in delivery of Health and Wellbeing events.

We are seeking people who can exercise their initiative, use independent judgement and make decisions within a variety of situations., Working closely with Cancer Services and our Cancer Nurse Specialist Team's (CNS) you will be a source of contact for cancer patients and their families, helping them to navigate through their cancer pathway, from diagnosis and into follow-up; providing reassurance, telephone patient triaging and support, along-side patient-related information giving and signposting. You will have support and guidance from our Cancer Care Navigators and the LWBC facilitator.

You will be required to assist the CNS teams in the smooth running of their living with and beyond cancer services which will include undertaking administrative duties relating to nurse-led clinics, MDT Outcomes and the tracking of patients' on remote surveillance. You will also be responsible for delivering Holistic Needs Assessments and Care Planning telephone clinics supporting patients in the resolution of non-complex needs and concerns.

The Living with and Beyond Care Team commemced in March 2019 following a Macmillan grant. The team aspire to providing excellence for our patients and carers in a supportive environment. The team are part of the Cancer Services wider team for support and direction.