About this role
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a caring, compassionate and motivatedindividual to work alongside our Clinical Nurse Specialist team as a Cancer Care Navigator specifically with the urology patient group.
The successful candidate will join our existing navigators to be an integral part of improving urology patients' pathways.
As a urology Cancer Care Navigator, you will play a vital role to complement the existing urology team with supporting patients from the point of diagnosis through their cancer journey. You will lead on delivering Holistic Needs Assessments (HNA), ensuring patients and their carers receive personalised information, emotional support and practical and appropriate signposting to relevant services. The role will involve a significant amount of patient contact on a regular basis to optimisethe health and quality of life of patient and carers.
Working closely with Clinical Nurse Specialists, the wider multidisciplinary team and local and national charities, you will help patients confidently navigate health and social care systems while promoting independence and self-management.
This is a highly rewarding role where compassionate communication and patient-centred care are at the heart of everything you do.
Main duties of the job
The Cancer Navigator will work in close unison with the Clinical Nurse Specialists to ensure the coordination and management of patients at all points of their treatment but in particular the Cancer Navigator will also act as a point of contact for patients and will be able to sign post patients to support their self-management.
- Conduct Holistic Needs Assessments (HNA) utilising the Somerset Cancer Register
- Provide tailored information, guidance, and signposting to patients and carers
- Deliver support through telephone, face-to-face, and community outreach settings
- Assist in organising and facilitating Health and Wellbeing events to promote self-management
- Engage with patients in clinical environments, including ward and outpatient settings
- Collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams and external organisations
- Regularly communicate sensitive and complex information, requiring a high level of empathy, professionalism, confidentiality, and emotional intelligence.
- Attend local Bladder & Prostate Cancer support Groups
About us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Ensure patients and careers are treated with dignity and respect and in keeping with the RWT approach and Macmillan values.
Provide dedicated and knowledgeable support to patients receiving care and treatment at RWT
Demonstrate a broad understanding of cancer treatments offered within RWT and tertiary centres.
Co-ordinate the transfer of care between service teams, or facilitation of service provision across interfaces of care for example primary and secondary care
Refer to other team members when appropriate and following discussion with the Clinical Nurse Specialist.
Develop good working relationships and liaison between other departments and Healthcare professionals within the RWT
Assess patients using Holistic Needs Assessment Tool and document accordingly.
Participate in initiatives to explore patient experience and service feedback
Use computer skills to document assessments.
Person Specification
Essential
- A-C GCSE passes in Maths and English
- Educated to diploma level and/or relevant experience in a health care setting
- Experience in the use of data management/ IT systems
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
Desirable
- Knowledge of cancer pathways
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Address
Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Wolverhampton Road
Heath Town, Wolverhampton
WV10 0QP
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)