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 summary

Would you like to work in a dynamic, flexible and forward-thinking team - ready to adapt and accommodate every eventuality to meet patients needs safely in the community? If so, Care Coordination is the team for you! Our drive and determination to meet the needs of our patients meant that we were HSJ award finalists in September 2022.

Are you seeking a new challenge or looking to work in a different care setting with exposure to new opportunities? We are offering an exciting position for a Band 6 Junior Sister to join the Care Coordination Team to work in our Hospital Inreach Service.

Main duties of the job

The Care Coordination Inreach Team work across our acute and community sites to help streamline patient discharges. The team visit the acute site daily (New Cross Hospital) attending a wide range of wards to identify patients who will need community support on discharge and take the lead with discharge planning for identified patients. Our aim is to achieve a safe, timely and seamless transition from hospital to home for our patients. Candidates must have a passion for service improvement and be motivated to promote, deliver and ensure success of the inreach service. Experience in service improvement and leadership is desirable as the post will involve the successful candidate working autonomously to implement, promote and deliver the inreach service with measurable set outcomes throughout the 12 months.

Applicants must be confident to promote safe and timely discharges into the community and lead with discharge planning (including liaising with MDT, patients and their families).

Candidates must have a UK driving license, business insurance and own a car they can use for work purposes. The post will require frequent travel across community sites and to New Cross and West Park Hospitals. Applicants must have a live NMC registration.

About us

We can offer:

Flexible working

A dedicated and robust 4 week super-numery induction

Support to enable you to be an autonomous and independent practitioner

Support so you can manage your own working day

The opportunity to be part of and lead with new and exciting developments in our inreach service

Support so that you are confident to bring new ideas forward and transfer your skills to our teams

Autonomy to lead on changes to improve and develop our inreach service

Support with funding for professional development

Technology to help support you to do your job along with support to develop skills in using technology and different web based applications

Exposure to complex case management of patients, including patients who are suitable for a D2A pathway

Professional advocacy sessions and regular supervision

An established team of experienced nurses to help you settle in and support your transition in becoming a valued member of our team