Cancer Support Worker / Administrator

We are recruiting for a Cancer Support Worker / Administrator who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards "great people, great place"., This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 3 Administrator/Care Support Worker to provide administration support to the Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Team. This includes recording of cancer nurse specialist activity, monitoring telephones and assisting with development of Risk Stratified Pathways, Health Promotion and follow-up services on the Isle of Wight incorporating the national cancer recovery package.

This post will work in collaboration and support of the Cancer Teams to help develop and deliver services across organisational, professional and geographical boundaries. This role will work closely with key areas of the Trust, forging close working relationships with the visiting consultants from the Cancer Centres, the medical and cancer teams, and the Specialist Palliative Care team.

It is essential that you possess a high level of up-to-date relevant knowledge, secretarial and administration skills and practical clinical experience in dealing with patients who have cancer, oncology or specialist palliative care needs. You must be highly motivated with excellent communication skills.

Working with the Cancer Nurse Specialist Team this post will assist the implementation and assessment of the service against the NHSi Quality Measures.

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is the only integrated acute, community, mental health and ambulance health care provider in England. We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust's beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Our 2020-2025 strategy sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we are proactively taking steps to ensure that we recruit and retain the highest quality of talent to provide CARE and we would welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer.

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.