Cancer Clinical Care Coordinator

at  East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

We are recruiting a Cancer Clinical Care Coordinator to work within the Nurse Specialist team who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
As part of a 2-year Pilot, the Macmillan Cancer Care Coordinator (MCCC) will work alongside the Clinical Nurse Specialists in Skin and Lung cancers to ensuring a safe and efficient service for patients. You will contribute towards the provision of providing a high standard of evidence-based care, supporting the management and supervision of patients throughout their treatment pathway.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Provide a seamless service to patients with proximal supervision from the tumour specific Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS).
Coordinate care by providing a single point of access, including rapid re-entry into the system for those patients identified as having urgent or specialist needs.
Communicate effectively within the multidisciplinary team and other departments to ensure that patient care is well planned and coordinated.
Have contact face to face and telephone communications with patients, carers and health care professionals.
Contributes to the improvement of services
It is anticipated that this role will continue to develop through the acquisition of further skills, knowledge and competencies to be determined within the clinical team with the focus on patient needs.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

WE RUN THE FOLLOWING HOSPITALS:

The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
Hertford County, Hertford
Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
ENHT is seeking to maintain and expand the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre staff as we move to an exciting new future.
We welcome applications from those who would relish the opportunity to be part of new and developing cancer service, building on the excellent reputation, research and patient experience the Cancer Centre already delivers.
In addition, you will receive a High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £4,314 and a maximum payment of £5,436 per annum pro rata.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role

Please refer the Job description for details