Job overview

An exciting new opportunity has arisen with the Hepatology department, HCC Surveillance Pathway Navigator is a new role to support patients identified as at risk of liver cancer to attend essential HCC surveillance scans and associated appointments with face to face and telephone interventions. We are looking for the right person to work proactively to identify and overcome barriers to engagement with HCC surveillance, particularly with patients experiencing inequalities in access to healthcare.  

The new role will be working along side the Liver Team and Caner Alliance:

·       To maintain the HCC surveillance database  for the trust.

·       To collect and submit the data required by the cancer alliance.

Main duties of the job

To engage with patients undergoing HCC Surveillance due to their Liver Disease. Support scheduling of clinic and imaging appointments to ensure surveillance schedule is maintained. To coordinate the necessary appointments, or investigations to expedite patients with abnormal results (e.g. suspected HCC) and ensure the correct onward pathway is followed in a timely manner. Make telephone calls to patients to remind them of upcoming scans / laboratory tests; identify and assist in resolving any barriers to engagement; coordinate text reminders for surveillance appointments for patients.  Support patients with additional needs to attend appointments – for example, meet at front door / attend appointment with patients.

Coordinate and provide administrative support to the clinical team to ensure all relevant paperwork and clinical information is available for consultations. Maintain and populate the patient tracking list (“Database”) for the surveillance clinics and scans, adding newly referred patients. Document and monitor aspects of care coordination and service delivery for audit and reporting to the Hepatology team and the Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance. Respond in a timely manner to enquiries from the patient’s GP regarding liver disease stage, care and treatment on the cancer surveillance pathway.

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.