Patient Navigator

How do you think it would feel to be an important part of patient care? You could be the compassionate person our patients need to help and assists them on their personal journey.
We are looking for a Patient Navigator to join the Colorectal Department at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals on a secondment or a fixed term basis for 12 months. This is an exciting opportunity to undertake a newly created role and to play a pivotal part in improving patient experience for those on the cancer pathway.
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic, self-motivated person who will be responsible for supporting patients on the 2 week wait suspected cancer pathway. You will be the main point of contact for patients on the cancer pathway. You will work closely with multi-disciplinary colleagues to support patients and GPs with the pathway and to reduce waiting times., You will be responsible for supporting patients on the 2 week wait cancer pathway, including taking appropriate actions to ensure that the trust targets are being met for the Clinical Business Unit. You will assist in the effective collection and recording of the patient pathways across the Unit and will support all administrative and clerical issues relating to cancer patients' pathway of care, tracking and supporting them from referral to treatment and/or discharge. You will actively monitor patients on cancer pathways, give regular updates of actions being taken and escalate problems accordingly.
You must have a key eye for detail as well as well as having excellent interpersonal skills. Applicants will also require robust organisational skills to track and monitor patients along the pathway.

Working for our organisation
We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
The Government have announced their intention to introduce the need for mandatory COVID vaccinations for all frontline patient facing roles (and those staff working in patient areas). This will come into effect from 1^st April 2022. This role may be in scope and as such if you are appointed it is likely that your COVID vaccination status will form part of your Occupational Health assessment. If you would like further information on the vaccine and for ways to book this please visit www.nhs.uk, Develop and maintain effective working relationships with clinicians, managers and others within Colorectal and Trust-wide service users.
Work across the Business Unit and Trust and contribute to the delivery of performance targets for services as appropriate.
Undertake information collection and analysis
Develop and maintain effective working relationships with clinicians, managers and others within the Unit and Trust wide service users
Effectively support the Acute & Specialist Surgery CBU in maintaining an open and honest culture that focuses on the development of staff and enables individual and team responsibility
Be the point of contact for all routine enquires facilitating communication and information flows, initiating and responding to correspondence and resolving enquires.
Promote within the Business Unit an honest and open culture that encourages the use of initiative, individual and team responsibility
Cooperate with other members of the management and clinical team to ensure that there is consistent and equitable approach to Trust policies and Divisional objectives.
Undertake ad hoc duties to support the service and the Division as a whole.
Please refer to attached Person Spec and job Description for more information.
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We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post. Our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders is available Here
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