Cancer Patient Pathway Navigator

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Cancer Centre Team based primarily at Hospital Close, Leicester General. The role will involve working closely with multi-disciplinary teams to facilitate and coordinate the function of a Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meeting, ensuring it runs effectively and follows up on agreed outcomes to support an effective patient pathway.

Main duties of the job

• Key responsibility for monitoring and tracking patients on a suspected cancer pathway, ensuring compliance with Next Steps and adherence to waiting times targets.
• Monitor and track referrals with suspected cancer to ensure appointments and treatment are booked on time.
• Facilitate and coordinate the function of Cancer MDT meetings.
• Collect data for all cancer and enter this onto an appropriate database.

Responsibilities

• Work independently with minimal supervision.
• Track patients referred as suspected cancer and ensure diagnostics and follow-up appointments meet agreed targets.
• Provide administrative support for MDT meetings, including recording attendance and collating outcomes.
• Ensure timely action of MDT outcomes for patients.
• Work collaboratively with medical secretaries and clinic coordinators to manage patient information.

Person Specification

Education

• Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent.

Experience

• 2 years administrative experience.
• Experience of dealing with customers/patients.
• Experience of data input.

Skills

• Effective communication skills.
• Ability to prioritise schedules and workloads.

About University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

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