Job vacancy: Lead Coordinator & Cancer Pathway Navigator, Band 5, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucester

Job summary

Main area: GI Surgery
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 318-25-T0182

Employer: Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Gloucestershire Royal Hospital & Cheltenham General Hospital
Town: Gloucester
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/03/2025 23:59

Lead Coordinator & Cancer Pathway Navigator, Band 5

NHS AfC: Band 5

Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.

As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.

As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.

By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This position is an integral part in the improvement of the GI cancer pathways in line with the national timed pathways

The post holder will ensure that the pathway is co-ordinated efficiently and effectively, patient pathways are actively tracked to meet cancer waiting times standards in line with the national timed pathway

Contribute to the on-going development of the diagnostic pathways in relation to the drive to implement the national timed pathways

To co-ordinate the patient GI cancer pathway for the Trust, and have highly functioning planning and organisational skills

Be responsible for all administrative tasks involved in managing patient pathways

Be responsible for day-to-day management, organisation and delegation of relevant tasks and roles to others as required in relation to the cancer pathways

Be responsible for data capture and data entry for Cancer Alliance and internal Cancer Services purposes.

Ensure efficient and effective management of medical secretarial services within the Directorate. Providing leadership and day to day support to the secretarial team.

Develop and lead local induction/on-going training programme for medical secretarial staff in conjunction with TRAK/IMT.

Responsible for leading modernisation initiatives with secretarial staff to achieve continuous improvement in service provision

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Educated to GCSE level (Maths/English at Grade C/4 or above)
Extensive and demonstrable knowledge and experience of the full range of administrative systems, software programmes to include all Microsoft applications (word, excel, access, email).

Desirable criteria

Relevant experience within GI Surgery

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working as a team Leader or supervisor within the NHS.
Pro-actively and effectively managing your own workload to meet constricting targets/deadlines.
Previous experience of working within a multidisciplinary environment
Awareness of national and local waiting time targets
To have experience of service improvement work

Desirable criteria

Experience of Cancer Services within the NHS

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies

Essential criteria

Excellent communication, responsiveness, interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills
Able to make independent decisions using own initiative
Confident in conflict management resolution
Experience of developing services

Behaviours and Values

Essential criteria

Flexibility in shift/working patterns to meet the needs of the service
Ability to participate as a team member and autonomously
Willing to accept additional responsibilities as delegated by senior staff

The health and wellbeing of our staff and patients remains the priority of the Trust. Vaccination remains the best chance we have of conquering COVID and the Trust encourages everyone to take up this offer.

Please note, this vacancy may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received, so please apply as soon as possible if you are interested. The Recruitment Team are unable to accept any applications after the position has closed on NHS Jobs.

Committed to safeguarding our community

If applicable for the post, all successful candidates will be required to pay for their own Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The cost will be £29 (standard checks) or £46 (enhanced checks), and will be recovered through two instalments from the candidate's salary. Please contact [email protected] for further information.

The Trust is a safeguarding employer committed to the safeguarding and promotion of welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Trust is committed to safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults, and any appointment will be subject to satisfactory clearance. As part of the organisation's commitment to Safer Recruitment, candidates may request copies of relevant policies and procedures by contacting the Recruitment Team at [email protected]

Committed to supporting service personnel

As part of our commitment to support Service Personnel, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, in collaboration with the Career Transition Partnership, offer a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for all qualifying Service and Ex-Service Personnel. To qualify for a guaranteed interview, candidates must meet the essential criteria for the post and be either a current member of the Armed Forces, or be within the two year period of resettlement. If this applies to you please email the job reference number and your AR number to the Recruitment Team at [email protected]