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Band 4
Full-time

Personalised Care Cancer Support Worker

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS TrustHarlow, Essex, CM20 1QX, United Kingdom£28,392 - £31,157Closes 23/09/2026

At a glance

Band
Band 4
Contract
Fixed-term
Pattern
Full-time
Posted
09/09/2026
Closes
23/09/2026

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Role summary

This role supports cancer patients by implementing the Macmillan Recovery Package and Risk Stratification Model. You will assist in delivering Holistic Needs Assessments, End of Treatment Summaries, and Health and Well-Being Events. The position involves navigating patients through complex health and social care systems and acting as a main point of contact throughout their journey. You will also manage workloads, promote survivorship services, and provide administrative support.

Essential criteria

  • Good standard of general education to GSCE level or equivalent
  • Foundation
  • Educated to A level or NVQ level 3, level 3 BTEC with knowledge of
  • Health & Social Care
  • Customer Service Skills training

Desirable criteria

  • Degree/Post Graduate Diploma
  • Extensive patient or public facing experience
  • Prioritising, planning and organising own tasks to meet competing
  • deadlines
  • Experience of working as part of a team and individually
  • Experience of working within guidelines, policies and protocols
  • Experience of dealing with difficult situations and confrontations with both
  • colleagues and service users
  • Proven experience in data entry and associated documentation
  • Experience of IT packages Microsoft Office, Excel and IT equipment
  • e.g. iPad and tablets
  • Insight into cancer and related issues
  • Knowledge / experience of Audit
  • Experience of culture change projects
  • Experience of project administration, NHS or public sector experience
  • Good standard of general education to GSCE level or equivalent
  • Foundation
  • Educated to A level or NVQ level 3, level 3 BTEC with knowledge of
  • Health & Social Care
  • Customer Service Skills training
  • Degree/Post Graduate Diploma
  • Extensive patient or public facing experience
  • Prioritising, planning and organising own tasks to meet competing
  • deadlines
  • Experience of working as part of a team and individually
  • Experience of working within guidelines, policies and protocols
  • Experience of dealing with difficult situations and confrontations with both
  • colleagues and service users
  • Proven experience in data entry and associated documentation
  • Experience of IT packages Microsoft Office, Excel and IT equipment
  • e.g. iPad and tablets
  • Insight into cancer and related issues
  • Knowledge / experience of Audit
  • Experience of culture change projects
  • Experience of project administration, NHS or public sector experience

Useful to know

Band 4 pay context

Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.

This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.

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The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Personalised Care Cancer Support Worker

The closing date is 23 September 2026

Job summary

The Personalised Care Support Worker Role should be seen within the context of a new evolving service model which seeks to ensure that cancer patients are offered access to the Recovery Package upon completion of an acute episode of care and that follow up care is Risk Stratified to an appropriate level.

Support implementation of all Survivorship Initiatives namely The Macmillan Recovery Package and Risk Stratification Model

As part of the Recovery package, the role will assist in delivering the Holistic Needs agenda (eHNA), End of treatment Summaries, Health and Well-Being Events and Remote Surveillance tracking of patients.

Support patients to navigate through complex health and social care systems.

To be a main point of contact throughout the patients journey, requiring close liaison/working with the core and extended Multi-disciplinary team.

The role may involve travel between hospital sites, cross trust working to cover both Risk Stratification and Recovery Package/eHNA work streams.

Main duties of the job

Pro-actively manage the Surveillance database in conjunction with CNS teams and the cancer information and support Manager.

Manage own workload, being aware of own and others role boundaries, with a partnership workin

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