About this role
Job summary
Please note interviews are planned for week commencing 23rd November 2026.
An opportunity has arisen in Cancer Services to support the delivery of the national Cancer Waiting Times objectives.
The successful applicant will be responsible for tracking cancer suspicious/ cancer confirmed patients through their pathway, from the point of referral to treatment, in line with national standards.
The applicant will be responsible for ensuring timely escalations and treatments. The role is required to work closely with the operational service ensuring that patients pathways are expedited as required.
The role involves using multiple hospital systems, including Careflow, ICE, Dragon, SCR, Soliton.
The post holder is expected to cover other team members during periods of absence and increased activity.
Main duties of the job
To monitor patient journey against 28, 31 and 62 day cancer waiting time targets, ensuring that each patient pathway is monitored against agreed pathways and in accordance with the Trusts Escalation Policy
Maintain robust data collection systems ensuring that clinical and non- clinical information, covering all aspects of the patient's cancer journey is collected in a timely fashion and entered onto the cancer database and site specific tracking tools as applicable.
Monitoring and amending data input to ensure accuracy and produce regular reports on the performance of the department in meeting waiting times
To liaise with diagnostic departments and clinical specialty staff across the Trust regarding patient appointment and care plans to ensure compliance with all agreed timescales
To highlight potential breaches to targets as appropriate and identify appointments to be brought forward
To ensure that all data is accurately recorded on SCR to ensure that patients are fully discussed at MDT , to include investigation reports and pathology reports
To participate in the weekly cancer PTL performance meetings and follow up any agreed actions
To provide administration to MDT meetings, as and when required, including coordination of meetings, live minute taking, ensuring patients are discussed and outcomes actioned in a timely manner
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 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
To monitor patient journey against 14/31 and 62 day cancer waiting time targets (including Cancer 2 Reform Strategy Targets from 2008) ensuring that each patient pathway is monitored against agreed pathways and in accordance with the Trusts Escalation Policy Maintain robust data collection systems ensuring that clinical and non- clinical information, covering all aspects of the patients cancer journey is collected in a timely fashion and entered onto the cancer database and site specific tracking tools as applicable.
This will, as a minimum, meet the requirements for the Minimum Data Set (MDS) and monitoring of cancer waiting times Co-ordinate and record patient treatment appointments, communicating them to relevant staff and patients Monitoring and amending data input to ensure accuracy and produce regular reports on the performance of the department in meeting waiting times To liaise with diagnostic departments and clinical specialty staff across the Trust regarding patient appointment and care plans to ensure compliance with all agreed timescales to ensure cancer waiting time targets are met and that all appointments are in accordance with the Trust Escalation Policy To work closely with MDT Co-ordinators to clarify queries and ensure that parts of the patients journey are clearly identified, recorded and monitored To highlight potential breaches to targets as appropriate and identify appointments to be brought forward
Ensure that all information is correctly recorded on Somerset for all patients referred from another Hospital, to enable the Trust to monitor against all existing targets and patient pathways Liaise closely with referring Hospitals to ensure that all relevant information is available to enable discussion at MDT (radiology images etc) To ensure that all data is accurately recorded on Somerset to ensure that patients are fully discussed at MDT , to include investigation reports and pathology reports To record any amendments to the patient journey on SCR database To participate in the weekly cancer PTL performance meetings and follow up any agreed actions To provide cover for Cancer services colleagues and to include the co-ordination of site specific MDT meetings during periods of annual leave and sickness absence
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ 3 or 2 A levels
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Experience in a similar environment
- Knowledge of anatomical and physiological terms.
- Knowledge of medical terminology to understand and interpret diagnostic investigation reports.
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
New Cross Hospital
Moat Road
Wolverhampton
WV10 0QP
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)