Early Cancer Diagnosis Care Coordinator
| Posting date: | 22 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £23,464.00 to £25,867.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £23464.00 - £25867.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2025 |
| Location: | Saltburn-by-the-sea, TS12 2TG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A5736-25-0001 |
Summary
Single point of contact for patients, or their relatives, during their cancer journey to answer questions and deal with problems that arise, linking in or signposting to services such as the hospital team, district nursing or Macmillan services, benefits agency etc as appropriate. To also act as point of contact for local hospice providing liaison to ensure care planning is in place. Support individual practices to improve local uptake of National Cancer Screening Programmes, understanding practice data for uptake and how screening is carried out, through community of practice which supports peer to peer learning events, and engagement with local providers. Ensure that Cancer Care Reviews have been undertaken with all patients within 12 months of diagnosis. In addition to collaborating with the wider PCN team eg Social Prescribers, Pharmacists, and other clinical/non-clinical partners involved in the patients care, the postholder will engage with local system partners, including Patient Participation Groups, secondary care, Public Health Commissioning teams, Northern Cancer Alliance and other external stakeholders as appropriate.