Macmillan Cancer Care Navigator- Fixed Term

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?

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 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. As well as managing patients who are on patient stratified follow up through remote monitoring

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.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.

Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.

Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to “Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population.” It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.

We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose. When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Beth Harvey Job title: LWBC Facilitator Email address: beth.harvey1@nhs.net Telephone number: 07870385521

Please call to enquire about the role and arrange a visit prior to application