Cancer Pathway Tracker

Job description

Job overview

Please note interviews are planned for week commencing 23rd November 2026.

An opportunity has arisen in Cancer Services to support the delivery of the national Cancer Waiting Times objectives.

The successful applicant will be responsible for tracking cancer suspicious/ cancer confirmed patients through their pathway, from the point of referral to treatment, in line with national standards.

The applicant will be responsible for ensuring timely escalations and treatments. The role is required to work closely with the operational service ensuring that patients pathways are expedited as required.

The role involves using multiple hospital systems, including Careflow, ICE, Dragon, SCR, Soliton.

The post holder is expected to cover other team members during periods of absence and increased activity.

Main duties of the job

To monitor patient journey against 28, 31 and 62 day cancer waiting time targets, ensuring that each patient pathway is monitored against agreed pathways and in accordance with the Trusts Escalation Policy

Maintain robust data collection systems ensuring that clinical and non- clinical information, covering all aspects of the patient's cancer journey is collected in a timely fashion and entered onto the cancer database and site specific tracking tools as applicable.

Monitoring and amending data input to ensure accuracy and produce regular reports on the performance of the department in meeting waiting times

To liaise with diagnostic departments and clinical specialty staff across the Trust regarding patient appointment and care plans to ensure compliance with all agreed timescales

To highlight potential breaches to targets as appropriate and identify appointments to be brought forward

To ensure that all data is accurately recorded on SCR to ensure that patients are fully discussed at MDT , to include investigation reports and pathology reports

To participate in the weekly cancer PTL performance meetings and follow up any agreed actions

To provide administration to MDT meetings, as and when required, including coordination of meetings, live minute taking, ensuring patients are discussed and outcomes actioned in a timely manner

Working for our organisation

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 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To monitor patient journey against 14/31 and 62 day cancer waiting time targets (including Cancer 2 Reform Strategy Targets from 2008) ensuring that each patient pathway is monitored against agreed pathways and in accordance with the Trusts Escalation Policy
• Maintain robust data collection systems ensuring that clinical and non- clinical information, covering all aspects of the patient's cancer journey is collected in a timely fashion and entered onto the cancer database and site specific tracking tools as applicable. This will, as a minimum, meet the requirements for the Minimum Data Set (MDS) and monitoring of cancer waiting times
• Co-ordinate and record patient treatment appointments, communicating them to relevant staff and patients • Monitoring and amending data input to ensure accuracy and produce regular reports on the performance of the department in meeting waiting times
• To liaise with diagnostic departments and clinical specialty staff across the Trust regarding patient appointment and care plans to ensure compliance with all agreed timescales to ensure cancer waiting time targets are met and that all appointments are in accordance with the Trust Escalation Policy
• To work closely with MDT Co-ordinators to clarify queries and ensure that parts of the patients journey are clearly identified, recorded and monitored
• To highlight potential breaches to targets as appropriate and identify appointments to be brought forward
• Ensure that all information is correctly recorded on Somerset for all patients referred from another Hospital, to enable the Trust to monitor against all existing targets and patient pathways
• Liaise closely with referring Hospitals to ensure that all relevant information is available to enable discussion at MDT (radiology images etc)
• To ensure that all data is accurately recorded on Somerset to ensure that patients are fully discussed at MDT , to include investigation reports and pathology reports
• To record any amendments to the patient journey on SCR database
• To participate in the weekly cancer PTL performance meetings and follow up any agreed actions
• To provide cover for Cancer services colleagues and to include the co-ordination of site specific MDT meetings during periods of annual leave and sickness absence

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NVQ 3 or 2 A levels

Skills and Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in a similar environment
• Knowledge of anatomical and physiological terms.
• Knowledge of medical terminology to understand and interpret diagnostic investigation reports.

Flexible Working - As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.

Qualifications - Please be advised that if the post that you are applying for requires any level of qualification (e.g. A-Levels, Degree etc) or Professional Registration (e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Medical Council etc) you will be required to provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. By submitting your application you are giving the Trust permission to check the qualification certificates provided back to the source provider. Please note that a sample of all applicant's qualifications will be checked with the educational institution or provider. Furthermore, a sample of all applicants' qualifications will be checked back to the educational institution or provider to interview letters to further deter fraud.

Visa/Sponsorship Information

In line with UKVI requirements, the Trust is unable to sponsor any applicants for Skilled Woker Visas who do not meet the minimum eligibility requirements including applicable salary thresholds and concessions. Before applying, please ensure that you have the right to work in the UK, or that the role is eligible for sponsorship. For more information, please visit: