Cancer Coordinator | Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust

The Cancer Co-Ordinator provides valuable support and knowledge to the senior management, consultants and administration staff for our Breast Service .
Knowledge and understanding of both inpatient and outpatient activity is an essential part of this role in order to maintain the high performance targets within Family Services .
• To assist the team to ensure all patient appointments, investigations and procedures are managed and arranged within the specified timescales in order to provide an optimum level of care for each patient.
• Assist the team to ensure waiting time targets are not breached and patients needs are met.
• To work alongside and provide administration support for the Clinical Nurse Specialists.
• A key aspect of the role involves daily and direct (eg. Face to face and telephone) communication with patients, relatives, carers and other health and social care professionals. The information and nature of the communication required is sensitive due to the nature of cancer. Communication in this context requires a high degree of empathy, understanding, diplomacy, honesty and integrity
We’re a large organization with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.
We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt ‘best practice’ so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/
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We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Jan 2024