Main area: Cancer Services
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (This post is externally funded for 12 months)
Hours:
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Post needs to cover Monday-Friday)
Job ref: 381-CO-6542277
Employer: Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: SWB NHS Trust
Town: Birmingham and Sandwell
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/01/2025 23:59
Liver Health Checks and HCC Surveillance Pathway Navigator
NHS AfC: Band 4
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
* People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
* Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
* Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
This is a new role to support the delivery of the West Midlands Liver Health Checks Operational Delivery Network and the regional Hepatocellular Cancer Surveillance. Primary liver cancer is the eighth most common cause of cancer death in the UK accounting for 3% of cancer related mortality (CRUK). Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of primary liver cancer and presents in patients with cirrhosis.
Main duties of the job
Under the direction, guidance and supervision of the team and Consultants, the post holder will coordinate the care and monitor surveillance pathways for patients with cirrhosis enrolled in Hepatocellular Cancer Surveillance at UHB and across the West Midlands ODN network.
The post holder will also have a specific focus to provide direct support for patients to maintain engagement in surveillance pathways ensuring they receive surveillance scans on schedule.
The Pathway Navigator will work as part of a multi-professional team to deliver the Liver Health Checks and HCC Surveillance programme. Key deliverables include work to facilitate a smooth patient journey ensuring that coordinated and streamlined administrative processes revolve around patients identified as eligible for cancer surveillance.
Person specification
* GCSE or equivalent to Level 2 Functional Skills Maths & English
* Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
* Previous experience of working in an NHS/Healthcare clinical setting
* Evidence of good communication skills with both patients and clinicians
* Knowledge of cancer provision within the NHS
* Experience of multi-professional working
* Experience of working with patients and carers
* Experience of inputting and interpreting data
* Experience of coordinating patient pathways
* Knowledge of cancer treatments, interventions and terminology
* Knowledge of medical terminology
* Awareness of the importance of confidentiality and discretion
* Ability to adapt behaviour to changing circumstances
* Reliable, approachable, demonstrates empathy, values diversity and operates with integrity
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Clare Smith
Job title: Lead Liver CNS
Email address: clare.smith11@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07792250114
Please contact prior to application to arrange a visit or chat about the role.
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